“He (Coombs) has been charged with child sex abuse and a court has remanded him to police custody,” Silwal told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. An official at the U.S. Embassy said the embassy could provide details due to issues related to privacy. Last year’s earthquakes left hundreds of thousands of families homeless and raised concerns among rights groups that trafficking rings would take advantage of the vulnerable. Nepali officials say more than 40,000 children either lost their parents, were injured, or were placed in a precarious situation following the disaster. “Disasters like earthquakes make children vulnerable to such crimes.

Source: Indian Express September 12, 2016 15:56 UTC