AFP
Phnom Penh - Two Cambodian teachers were arrested on charges of cutting off the fingers of an 11-year-old street boy they accused of stealing a water bucket from outside their home, police said Sunday.
Nuch Thivann and Khem Chamreoun, both 25, were arrested on Saturday after police received a complaint from the victim's family, district police chief Hout Chanyaran said.
The boy, Chhun Piseth, was beaten before three fingers on his right hand were chopped off with a cleaver and thrown into a sewage pipe in Phnom Penh, according to witnesses.
"We found a big cleaver, and it's good evidence," Hout Chanyaran said.
Piseth's father, 41-year-old Pov Von, said his son often scavenged the streets for abandoned property that he could sell. He said he was shocked to see his son's fingers were chopped off.
"My son is very young, and it was too brutal to do that," Pov Von said.
Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries, with 35 percent of its 14 million people in poverty, defined in Cambodia as living on less than 50c per day.
Nearly 1,5 million Cambodians under the age of 14 are engaged in some sort of child labour, and much of this work is unpaid and dangerous.
Nuch Thivann and Khem Chamreoun, both 25, were arrested on Saturday after police received a complaint from the victim's family, district police chief Hout Chanyaran said.
The boy, Chhun Piseth, was beaten before three fingers on his right hand were chopped off with a cleaver and thrown into a sewage pipe in Phnom Penh, according to witnesses.
"We found a big cleaver, and it's good evidence," Hout Chanyaran said.
Piseth's father, 41-year-old Pov Von, said his son often scavenged the streets for abandoned property that he could sell. He said he was shocked to see his son's fingers were chopped off.
"My son is very young, and it was too brutal to do that," Pov Von said.
Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries, with 35 percent of its 14 million people in poverty, defined in Cambodia as living on less than 50c per day.
Nearly 1,5 million Cambodians under the age of 14 are engaged in some sort of child labour, and much of this work is unpaid and dangerous.
9 comments:
Cambodia is where the punishement didn't fit the crime...
Those two cruel teacher (I would say masked gangsters) must be jailed. They should start their education from class 1 again.
The ills in society are not without cause. Who is in charge of societal order?
That person did not do a good job in keeping order.
People had not trusted the authority and resoted violence.
It seems simple but is a big problem for morality like Cambodia.
When people do not trust the law, they take actions into their own hands. This is the case in Cambodia. The two so called teachers should be jailed and strip of whatever license they have for teaching. Afterall, no Cambodian child should be taught under such barbarians.
These two animals,idiot teachers should have their fingers chopped off too. That makes sense.
idiot teacher must compensate big money to the poor child or the judge must imprison them to jail.
are you fucken nuts? you don't do this to fucken kids. we should not blame kids for their unchosen poverty. we should all blame the Govt. chopping fings off for stealing buckets? what kind of society is that?
we are doom!
You're such an idiot! Who do you think you are? What if something do that to your child? How would you feel? If I were to chopp off your ding dong, would you like it? Are you an animal? For doing this crime, you belong in HELL. You'll see. If you do good thing, you'll receive good thing, but if you do bad thing, you will receive it. He's only 11-yrs old. Teachers are suppose to teach kids not hurting kids. You belong i jail for doing such a crime. Teachers like you should not be teaching children.
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