Pa. exporter gets 8 years for having sex with Russian orphans

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A wealthy Russian-American car exporter has been sentenced to eight years in prison for having sex with girls from a St. Petersburg orphanage.

Andrew Mogilyansky of suburban Philadelphia received the maximum under terms of his “sex tourism” plea. Prosecutors say he raped one girl on her 14th birthday and a 13-year-old in her first sexual encounter.

A civil suit accuses the 39-year-old Mogilyansky of helping finance an online child-sex ring and develop its Web site to attract international customers.

Friends call the married Columbia University graduate a brilliant man of high character, and a defense psychotherapist says he is not a sexual predator.

But victims told authorities he had left them pained, depressed and unable to trust men.