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American national, Roland Flath was given a five year jail sentence on Thursday for sexually assaulting a fourteen year old girl in Belize. The sentence was handed down yesterday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by U.S. district judge J.P. Stadtmuller.  According to the Associated Press, back in May of this year, seventy two year old Roland Flath pleaded guilty to traveling to a foreign country and engaging in illicit sexual conduct. The Associated Press quoted court documents, which showed that a then-14-year-old girl from Copper Bank in northern Belize, told investigators in 2010 that Flath had been taking pictures of her naked and sexually assaulting her since she was 9 or 10 year old. The girl, according to the court docments, testified that Flath paid her and she used the money to buy her mother food.