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Phnom Penh - Cambodian authorities have charged a 12-year-old girl with snapping her 6-year-old neighbour's neck in an attempt to rob her of a 25-dollar pair of gold earrings, police said Saturday. Sa'ang district police chief Un Savuth said Korn Mtes, 12, had allegedly lured kindergarten pupil Thong Sromouch Krahom away from her playmates to a secluded area behind a house.
"Then it appears she wrung the little one's neck and just took the earrings off her dead body," Savuth said over the telephone.
He said the incident had occurred late Thursday afternoon and Mtes had now been formally charged.
Premeditated murder carries a 20-year jail term in Cambodia, but Savuth said it would be up to the court to decide what sentence to award such a young offender if convicted.
Cambodia does not have a separate juvenile justice system.
"Then it appears she wrung the little one's neck and just took the earrings off her dead body," Savuth said over the telephone.
He said the incident had occurred late Thursday afternoon and Mtes had now been formally charged.
Premeditated murder carries a 20-year jail term in Cambodia, but Savuth said it would be up to the court to decide what sentence to award such a young offender if convicted.
Cambodia does not have a separate juvenile justice system.
7 comments:
That is what happened when we teach our youngs to value fashion and cosmetic like they do in the west.
Furthermore, this ideology also distracted our youngs from focus on their school works and jeopardized our nation future. All schools should mandated school uniform and ban all jewelries.
actually this is what happens when the rich keep the poor in overwhelming poverty.
Well, it didn't happened before.
I blame it on poverty and the lack of education(ignorant) on the part of the parents in the less perfect society.
No doubt that poverty is a factor, but you are making it worse by teasing poor people with luxurious westerner lifestyle.
And how can you blame the parent here. They all have been brainwashed by Ah Sam Rainsy to dump the Khmer moral value and go with westerner's.
Plus, what level of education are you expecting a 12 years old to have, master degree?
Let's face fact, children follow their own kind in school and in neighborhood. And when they were teased with westerner life style everywhere, their temptation will break down soon or later. For cry out loud, even adult temptation have been broken down. How you expected children to resist temptation is beyond my comprehension. Many of them on the street is selling their body right now as we speak just to satisfy their westerner lifestyle.
You are a STUPID IDIOT 7:20.
For a person that can read and write english like you, I thought you have bigger brain than this. If you hated westerners so much, why did you learned english. I thing you should use your tiny little brain sometime. Westerners give millions of dollars each year to feed stupid people like you. You should blames your stupid corrupts government in stead of westerners. Without westerners, you and your stupid country would be call VIETNAME right now. What a stupid ass. You give khmer people a bad name, STUPID.
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