US language tutor jailed for 30 years for sexually exploiting children in China
US citizen Hector Orjuela was sentenced to 30 years in prison followed by lifelong supervision for child molestation and producing child pornography
A former elementary school teacher has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the US for sexually exploiting children in China.
The 47-year-old California-native spent years teaching at several international schools in Shanghai before his arrest.
He was silently extradited from China to the US in December 2012 after a mother of two five-year-old girls reported him to police in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported at the time.
Orjuela also molested a girl under the age of 12 in the US and produced child pornography of the act in July 2012, according to court documents.
In August that year, upon his return to Shanghai, he began molesting one of the two five-year olds and attempted to molest the other, the Post reported. His acts continued until he was caught towards the end of the year by the twins’ expat mother.