Word: rosser
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...into another program at Exeter, but Harvard sounds more impressive,” says Robert J. Rosser...
Musician Eric Rosser intended to die in Bangkok, the "City of Angels." Here, the former piano player for faded American rock star John Mellencamp found a haven. He had an attractive Thai wife, a young son, a luxury apartment and what he once described as the best gig in town: playing piano at the century-old Oriental Hotel's Bamboo Bar. The city's monied set showered him with invitations to cocktail parties and they enrolled their kids at the thriving Rosser Piano Studio. "This is a fulfilling life," Rosser told the Bloomington Herald Times, his Indiana hometown paper...
...anymore. On Aug. 19, the Bangkok Criminal Court approved Rosser's extradition to the U. S. to stand trial on six counts of producing and distributing child porno-graphy. The FBI and Thai authorities claim Rosser molested an unknown number of girls in Bangkok and Bloomington, most of them between the ages of seven and 11. The first alleged pedophile to appear on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, Rosser is said by authorities to have filmed himself having sex with an 11-year-old girl. (Rosser has vowed to fight the charges, though he wrote a letter...
...Rosser's extradition order?as well as Cambodia's recent threat to deport British singer Gary Glitter, convicted in the U.K. of downloading child pornography?might be viewed as progress in the fight against Asia's child-sex industry. "I started working in Thailand in 1992, and back then there was no legislation?nothing," says Bernadette McMenamin, national director of the Australian arm of End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking, an NGO. Those who lure children into prostitution in Thailand now face jail time of up to 15 years (previously, they were only fined). And predators who have sex with...