Jan. 3, 2007
Child sex crimes half way across the globe lead to the arrest of a Tennessee man.
Roger Green, 59 of Clarksville, sits in a Cambodian jail, but his family feels a misunderstanding about generosity put him there.
Roger Green, 59 of Clarksville, sits in a Cambodian jail, but his family feels a misunderstanding about generosity put him there.
His daughter Keri Jones insists the charges stem from a misunderstanding. She said he has regularly traveled abroad to provide financial assistance to needy children for the past seven years.
"He's just been wrongfully accused. He was helping two children and this is what happened," Jones said. "Whatever allegations they made were untrue because I had been in the hotel with him in Vietnam, and we may have had 10 or 12 kids in the room with us."
Green was charged with sex crimes relating to his relationship with the girls in his hotel room at the time. Green, a Vietnam veteran, makes yearly trips to the part of the world where he spent time in the military.
Jones has Western Union receipts that illustrate his donations. Green's attorney has started the process of bringing him back.
Jones' contact at the US Embassy told her Green has not been mistreated in that Cambodia prison, but police have yet to move him from a temporary holding cell.
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