A 71-year-old Canadian man, who was previously convicted in India, Canada and Australia over sex assault cases, has been sentenced to seven years in prison and slapped with a hefty fine of USD 10,000 for molesting a 9-year-old disabled boy in Nepal.
Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh arrived in Nepal last August and approached a homeless children centre with the offer of donations where he met the victim, a 9-year-old boy, police said.
The Canadian tourist lured the minor into his rented room at a guest house on December 13 and molested him, police spokesperson Pawan Kumar Giri said.
The boy is said to be from Achham, currently staying at a children's home in Lalitpur, Giri said.
MacIntosh has been proven guilty and sentenced to 7 year imprisonment yesterday, said the court official.
Strong evidence was provided by the boy's testimony and result of a polygraph test, according to the court official.
The court has also ordered the septuagenarian Canadian national to pay USD 10,000 to the victim as compensation.
MacIntosh was also accused of sexually abusing boys in the 1970s in Cape Breton, an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. The allegations surfaced in 1995, when he was living in India.
Macintosh has records of child abuse cases and has earlier been convicted in India, Canada and Australia.
But he was not extradited until 2007 and the first of his two trials in Nova Scotia did not start until 2010. His convictions were quashed in April 2013, The Globe and Mail reported.
