A cewar majiyoyin yada labarai a Phnom Penh, 'yan sandan Cambodia sun kama wani dan Australia da ake zargi da biyan kudin lalata da 'yan mata masu karancin shekaru sama da shekaru masu yawa.
An kama wanda ake zargin mai suna Michael John Lines mai shekaru 52 a jiya. ‘Yan sanda sun yi zargin cewa yana lalata da ‘yan mata biyu, wanda yanzu ya kai 17.
Manjo Janar Bith Kimhong, darektan sashin yaki da safarar mutane a ma’aikatar harkokin cikin gida, a yau, ya ce daya daga cikin wadanda ake zargin angonta ne yanzu.
Bith Kimhong ya kara da cewa 'yan sanda sun yi zargin cewa ya ci zarafin yara da dama kuma "ya shafe shekaru hudu yana aikata laifin."
Ya ce mutumin zai gurfana a gaban kotun karamar hukumar Phnom Penh a yau don tuhumarsa da "sayan jima'i daga yara."
An daure baki da dama daga kasashen waje saboda laifin yin lalata da kananan yara ko kuma a kore su don fuskantar shari'a a kasashensu tun bayan da Cambodia ta kaddamar da yaki da cin hanci da rashawa a shekarar 2003 don kokarin kawar da martabarta a matsayin mafakar masu lalata.
Ma'aikatar Harkokin Waje da Ciniki ta Australia (DFAT) ta tabbatar da kama mutumin.
"Ofishin jakadancin Australia a Phnom Penh yana sane da kama wani mutumin Queensland mai shekaru 52 bisa zargin laifin lalata da yara," in ji mai magana da yawun DFAT.
"Ofishin Jakadancin Australiya yana ba mutumin taimakon ofishin jakadanci."
