Aust pedophile seeks shorter US sentence AUSTRALIAN pedophile Peter Truong, who has admitted buying an infant boy with his partner for $US5000 and allowing him to be sexually abused by a global child molester network, is hoping a US judge will give him a reduced jail sentence. Truong, 36, formerly of Cairns, is facing a 40-year sentence while he sits in the La Tuna federal prison on the Texas-New Mexico border. Truong's Australian partner Mark Newton, 42, was jailed last week in an Indianapolis court for 40 years. The horrifying details of how Truong and Newton bought the infant from his mother in Russia, then sexually abused the boy themselves and handed him around to pedophiles in Australia, the US, France and Germany, has been described as "some of the most heinous acts of exploitation" seen by law enforcement officials in Australia and the US. Truong, who will be sentenced later this year, is claiming to be a child abuse victim. In objecting to a pre-sentence report compiled by a US probation officer, Truong's lawyer Angelyn Gates complains the report fails to detail Truong's history as a victim which "could justify" a shorter sentence. "Mr Truong himself was the victim of child molestation, indoctrinated into the man-boy love group as a minor teenager, and brain washed to keep quiet and protect other perpetrators," Ms Gates wrote. Truong, who went by the screen name "Plopper" on pedophile internet sites, also argues the pre-sentence report wrongly portrays him as being a dual Vietnamese-Australian citizen. "Mr Truong considers himself, and believes that he is, only a citizen of Australia," Ms Gates wrote. Mr Truong also argues he did not pay $US8000 for the boy, as alleged by prosecutors, but $US5000. Truong has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to sexually exploit a child and possessing child pornography. The boy was rescued by US authorities in Los Angeles and is being cared for in California.