Sentenced: Man says he wouldn't have gone to DR to have sex w teens if he knew he would get in trouble

[Sugar Cookie]

An American man who admitted to jetting off to the Dominican Republic to have sex with underage girls has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Theodore Symonds, 51, traveled to Puerto Plata in March 2017 to have sex with an at-the-time 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl, according to the United States attorney's office for the Southern District of Florida on Friday.

Prostitution is legal in the Dominican Republic, but 60 percent of the 25,000 to 35,000 prostitutes in the country start out as minors, according to the International Labour Organization.

The age of consent in the Dominican Republic is 18. Many children find that they can get in a cycle of abuse as they work to make ends meet for their families, hoping to escape the waves of poverty that ravishes the nation.

Court documents reveal that Symonds corresponded with the girls on Facebook, asking if he had ownership over the girls and demanding that they send him nude photos.

When clothes were seen in the photos, he stated 'No clothes, my God,' and required that the girls take off more of their clothes.

The man also sent photos to the girls that featured past visits, including one where he and a victim were lying down while partially clothed.

Messages between Symonds and a friend - only referred to as A.R. - show that at one point, he made a comment about one of the girls being 20 but was quickly informed that she was actually 13.

Symonds would go on and explain that the girl's age was no concern because he was friends with her family and the police.

Symonds told authorities that he had relationships with the girls and knew they were underage. But the man asserted that he never had sex with the girls.

The investigation started in March 2017 after Domincan authorities detained him and informed the United States Government.

Symonds told American authorities that he would not have gone back to the Dominican Republic if he knew that he could get in trouble in the United States.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...veling-Dominican-Republic-sex-teen-girls.html

 

[Keepalowprofile]

. An American man who admitted to jetting off to the Dominican Republic to have sex with underage girls has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.

That's awesome.

 

[notchback]

Jackhole...

So many holes that I'm confused. Is the jackhole a front, back, top or bottom hole?

 

[Sejanus]

Sick pedo.
Chum the water with him.

 

[Abroad]

Ignorance of the law is no defence, - but honestly: How could he have been in any doubt that what he was doing was illegal? I know people have been doing what he was doing for decades, because they knew it was frowned on at home; but how did he miss all the recent new stories about how first world countries were starting to prosecute crimes committed in third world countries or assisting the third world countries themselves in prosecuting?

 

[Satanica]

He knew. He just didn't think he would get caught. I'm sure obtaining a victim is way easier there.