A STRING of US paedophiles who have committed crimes in the Philippines have been handed massively long jail sentences in America.

David Paul Lynch, 55, who frequently travelled from Florida to sexually abuse kids in the South-East Asian country and film it, recently got 330 years.

A row of empty prison cells with open metal-grate doors.
US paedophiles who have committed crimes in the Philippines have been handed massively long jail sentences in America Credit: Getty
Police mugshot of Kenneth Gaylord Stokes.
Paedophile Kenneth Gaylord Stokes, 71, who lived near the city of Cebu where Markle Snr resided, got 120 years for abusing children Credit: KMZU

The , now investigating ‘s dad, uses the long sentences as an example of stopping child sex tourism on its website.

Another offender Kenneth Gaylord Stokes, 71, who lived near the city of Cebu where Markle Snr resided, got 120 years for abusing children.

And in July, Vincent Anthony Principe, 55, was sentenced to 30 years after travelling to the Philippines over several years to possess hundreds of images of child sexual abuse material.

Florida, where Markle Snr is in a care home, has some of the US’s toughest punishments for severe child sex crimes, including the death penalty.

Thomas Markle looking directly at the camera.
Thomas Markle Snr’s son told police he discovered ‘hundreds, if not thousands’ of child sex abuse images in four large boxes at his father’s home Credit: Phil Penman – The Sun
A young Meghan Markle posing outdoors with her brother, Thomas Markle Jnr.
Meghan and her half-brother Thomas Jnr Credit: SEVEN/TNI PRESS LTD.)

Snr’s son told he discovered “hundreds, if not thousands” of child sex abuse images in four large boxes at his father’s home.

, 82, were last night preparing to seize the evidence.

Horrified Thomas Jnr, Meghan’s half-brother, reported their father to detectives in the Philippines after making the sickening find at his home in the city of Cebu.

Markle Snr had been forced to leave the house in May and return to the which led to the amputation of his left leg.

But he is alleged to have abandoned the enormous stash of vile content packed into storage boxes.