MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S...

Indicted in December, Mogilyansky, a dual Russian-U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to the charges in April. The prosecution said he took two thirteen-year-old girls and one fourteen-year-old to his apartment in St. Petersburg from their orphanage where he had sex with them.

The judge also ordered Mogilyansky to spend 15 years on supervised release after serving his prison term, and to pay $5,000 in compensation to each of his victims, and a $12,500 fine, the paper said.

"This is a grave criminal act," said Judge Mary A. McLaughlin. "Their [the victims] lives will be different because they were harmed by Mr. Mogilyansky."

Mogilyansky was initially charged with organizing an online child prostitution ring in the Russian capital and bringing over orphaned girls from St. Petersburg from 2002 to 2004 together with four other men, who were tried and convicted in Russia in 2004. He faced 15-30 years in jail.

The charges were later dropped for those of "sex tourism."

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