BERLIN, Dec 4, 2007 (AFP) - Seven Cambodian boys will give evidence at the trial in Germany of a convicted paedophile accused of sexually abusing children during a trip to southeast Asia, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The 48-year-old man, identified only as Matthias O., is accused of sexually abusing the boys, aged from 10 to 11.
The boys will tell the trial in Kiel next week that they had also seen him abusing other children, according to a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the northern city.
The accused is HIV positive and abused the children in the full knowledge of the risks to them, the spokesman added.
He has already been convicted several times for sexually abusing children during visits to Asia and was released from prison in Germany last year, but was arrested in Cambodia in February this year.
He had travelled with a fake Danish passport after authorities confiscated his German identification papers on his release from prison because he had admitted that he intended to re-offend.
"His passport was taken away in July 2006 because it was feared he would return to southeast Asia," the spokesman said.
The children's testimony is essential to the prosecution case because there is no video evidence.
The man was tracked down in Cambodia with the help of a French charity, Action pour les Enfants, which helps street children in the country, the TAZ newspaper reported.
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