Cambodian woman charged with murder for tossing her toddler in river
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia
AP
A Cambodian woman was charged Saturday with premeditated murder for allegedly tossing her one-year-old baby boy into a river, officials said.
So Savoeurn, 20, claimed she is HIV-positive and had passed on the AIDS-causing virus to her toddler, said Prak Chut, a district police chief of the southeastern Svay Rieng province.
She said she threw her son into the river because she could not afford food or medicine for him, Prak Chut said.
Prak Chut said So Savoeurn had no medical documents to prove her or her son's illness.
Police arrested her Thursday, two days after authorities found her son's body floating in the river.
Keo Sothea, a prosecutor at Svay Rieng provincial court, said he formally charged her Saturday with premeditated murder, which is punishable by up to 20 years in jail.
She is now behind bars awaiting trial, which must start within six months under Cambodian law.
Svay Rieng province is about 110 kilometers (70 miles) southeast of the capital Phnom Penh.
Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries, and about 35 percent of its 14 million people live below the national poverty line of US$0.50 (€0.37) a day.
It has one of the highest rates of HIV infection among people aged 15-49 in Southeast Asia, at 1.9 percent.
About 20,000 children under the age of 15 live with HIV or AIDS in Cambodia, out of a total 123,000 people who are either infected with the virus or have the full-blown disease.
So Savoeurn, 20, claimed she is HIV-positive and had passed on the AIDS-causing virus to her toddler, said Prak Chut, a district police chief of the southeastern Svay Rieng province.
She said she threw her son into the river because she could not afford food or medicine for him, Prak Chut said.
Prak Chut said So Savoeurn had no medical documents to prove her or her son's illness.
Police arrested her Thursday, two days after authorities found her son's body floating in the river.
Keo Sothea, a prosecutor at Svay Rieng provincial court, said he formally charged her Saturday with premeditated murder, which is punishable by up to 20 years in jail.
She is now behind bars awaiting trial, which must start within six months under Cambodian law.
Svay Rieng province is about 110 kilometers (70 miles) southeast of the capital Phnom Penh.
Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries, and about 35 percent of its 14 million people live below the national poverty line of US$0.50 (€0.37) a day.
It has one of the highest rates of HIV infection among people aged 15-49 in Southeast Asia, at 1.9 percent.
About 20,000 children under the age of 15 live with HIV or AIDS in Cambodia, out of a total 123,000 people who are either infected with the virus or have the full-blown disease.
That is why we should never forget
ReplyDeleteabout jobs for the people.
And those who spread the HIV virus
shall be lock up without any
medical aid. Only those who
contracted HIV through no fault of
their own should be assisted.
First Time when I Read The Lady Name So Savoeun I though the one of our famouse singer from 1968-1975.
ReplyDeleteIt is not just about any fucken job!!It is about a fucken that help pay for food, shelter, and all the fucken necessity of life like a fucken medicine for example!
ReplyDeleteCambodian people need some jobs because most jobs in Cambodia right now pay people to fuck up!!!
Bullshit, Khmer people is not as
ReplyDeletegreedy as your assholes oversea.
Plus, they got patient too;
otherwise, most of them would have
gone mad by now. As for jobs, I
am confident if can get the jobless
rate down to less than 6% or so,
we have already solve 80%+ of the
problems that we have seen and read
in the news. Just scroll down to
the story below about the farmer
girl who came to Phnom Penh to find
a job and couldn't find one, and
then she want to jump off the
bridge. How much money do you
think she was looking for,
1,000USD/month, you idiot?
The suffering of the cambodian people is the result of the deficient structure within our society. We should not blame each others but we are all the victims in our society. Saveoun has HIV is not her fault but the fault of the society which left her out from the proteced system.
ReplyDelete1:48 AM you sick fuck does that 80% included being a whore while your fucking father humping a little girl?
ReplyDeleteFirst of all you motherfuckers destroy the natural job of everyday life people are depended on than you make them come to you. This is call deprive the people wealth and make it yours and soon you have that fucking laws to protect it. You sick fuck family manage to send your kid to overseas while fuck the more in every way to get that money so your fucking child can become a moron. You brother are just another sick fuck or just an INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTE. Believe me I don't go wrong you sick fuck.
True, 4:53, but not entrirely,
ReplyDeleteyour people has also contamined
us also with a bunch of junks like
porns, hollywood, ..., and other
media to make people demanded for
thing that are way beyond their
mean. This is bit like your
own kids demanded from you a
masion, a fiaro, a servant,...,
and whatever else you don't have.
It is just totally outrageous.
So next time you come to Cambodia,
shut the fuck up. Don't show off
so much, alright?
So much for AH HUN SEN and AH SOK ANN "rectangular economic strategy" and this fucken economic policy is working like magic for dirt poor Cambodian people!!!aahhah
ReplyDeleteAH HUN SEN don't even know what is the "minimum wage" for Cambodian people to live on and now he want to pass a fucken law to cut dirt poor Cambodian people salary!!!!
I thought I had seen enough...more to come!!!
And what natural jobs are you
ReplyDeletetalking about, 5:19?
As for sending kids to school
abroad, this is nothing new. They
did it in China, Vietnam, France,
Australia, ..., and everywhere
since the beginning of time.
Dont tell me you don't know
anything about that.
10:17 AM who is your people while you rob and take my homeland you sick fuck. Believe your fucking Chinese emperor have fuck Khmer the day they set foot in Cambodia. Believe I'm not the one who contaminate your fucking Chinese culture at all. Do the survey you will find fuck up Jen like you and many more rich pig are the one flooded Cambodia with explicit materials. I think you are the who created necessity where people want and demand. So next time when you do come to Cambodia do the survey and see who have fuck Cambodia. you sick fuck.
ReplyDelete10:23 AM you sick fuck don't you know about free wealth and living? And from the beginning of time monkey climb tree you sick fuck, maybe your education is with the blue eyes if not a black eye. lol
ReplyDeleteHell fuck! How come there are two 10:17AM! I am the second one and I hope 12:08PM is not talking to me!ahahhahah
ReplyDeleteGuys, guys, guys, the Vietnamese
ReplyDeleteand Chinese have been in the region
for centuries. Read the pre-khmer
history, and you will know that
the Chinese (Vietnamese is also
considered Chinese then) has
settling in the region first. And
since then, the Khmer is still
Khmer. Chinese and Vietnamese don't
give a fuck what Khmer people want
to be, and right now the Khmer
people has been more influenced
by the evil westerners than they do
the Chinese and Vietnamese. Open up
your fucking eyes, for cry out
loud!
1:38 PM open your fucking four eyes instead you fucking moron. Look around you who brought in western school and I guess selling little for sex is not part of your western attraction? you fucking blind idiot, I guess it your hypocrites system. Go and cry you fucking heart out you moron. Khmer want all your motherfuckers to leave them alone you molesters fuck. Did you enjoy you Nokia phone?
ReplyDeleteWell, the french brought their
ReplyDeleteschool here when they were in
control, and we all know the french
love sex. They tried to forced us
in to their culture for nearly 100
years. They have shot us; they have
whiped us; they have beat us, ...,
to learn their language and
tradition but we did budge, and
finally they just gave up on it,
hehehe.
6:34 PM that said it, all Khmer ain't a moron like the Yuons, for Christmas the French go back home. Actually I do love French language. I guess 60 millions plus a moron than a 7 millions don't you think? lol gees man how moron are you really. You don't get things into perspective at all. LMAO
ReplyDeleteWell, what did I missed?
ReplyDelete