A man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for traveling to oversea frequently to engage in sex with children as young as 12 years old.
The illicit affairs happened in Philippines.
The man, Craig Alex Levin, 67, of King of Prussia, a retired special education teacher, according to court documents, between 2016 and 2019, traveled to the Philippines nine times, each time for the purpose of engaging in sex with disadvantaged minors.
The minors, by Levin’s own words, were hungry or needed money for medicine for family members.
In May 2019, the Philippine National Police arrested him as he was about to enter the elevator at his hotel with a 15-year-old girl and upon search of his hotel room, police located several notebooks containing the names and ages of hundreds of girls, whom he rated based on several categories, including age.
Only girls under the age of 18 received a top score of 10. There were multiple children as young as 12 listed in the notebooks.
Levin was sentenced to 35 years in prison on yesterday, according to a statement released to The Daily Crucible by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ).
The DoJ recalled that in June 2022, Levin pleaded guilty to six counts charging him with foreign travel to engage in sex with a minor, attempted sex trafficking of a minor, and distribution and transportation of child pornography.
