69-year-old Frenchman held in Nepal for abusing teens

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Kathmandu: A 69-year-old French national associated with a child protection organisation has been arrested here for allegedly sexually abusing two teenage boys, police said. Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested Georges Igor Himansky with his victims, aged 14 and 15, from Kathmandu's Thamel area on Friday.

"The police has filed a case of unnatural sex and child sex abuse against the French man at the Kathmandu District Court," a statement issued by the Nepal Police said. The accused had been feeding his perverse fantasies for years by presenting himself as a benevolent foreigner who helped children, an investigator was quoted as saying.

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