HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Two Vietnamese police officers have been imprisoned for helping a woman on death row become pregnant so she would not have to face the firing squad, a court official said Thursday.
The policemen in Hoa Binh province were found guilty of allowing the woman to have sex with a male inmate so that she could take advantage of a Vietnamese law that says pregnant women and mothers of children under 3 cannot be put to death.
The Hoa Binh City Court convicted the two officers of abusing power while on duty, said court official Hoang Thuy Linh.
Nguyen Thuyen, 31, was sentenced to five years in prison, while Bui Van Quyet, 23, was sentenced to three and a half years.
"It was the most unusual case I have ever seen," Linh said of Wednesday's sentencing. "Many people came to the trial out of curiosity, just to see what the woman and her baby looked like."
Nguyen Thi Oanh, now 40, was sentenced to death in 2005 for drug trafficking but her sentence was reduced to life in prison after she became pregnant in 2006. The death sentence will not be reapplied when Oanh's son — who lives with her in prison — turns 3.
Thuyen and Quyet confessed that they had accepted a bribe of $92 from Oanh's family to let the male inmate make five unsupervised visits to her cell, Linh said.
The policemen in Hoa Binh province were found guilty of allowing the woman to have sex with a male inmate so that she could take advantage of a Vietnamese law that says pregnant women and mothers of children under 3 cannot be put to death.
The Hoa Binh City Court convicted the two officers of abusing power while on duty, said court official Hoang Thuy Linh.
Nguyen Thuyen, 31, was sentenced to five years in prison, while Bui Van Quyet, 23, was sentenced to three and a half years.
"It was the most unusual case I have ever seen," Linh said of Wednesday's sentencing. "Many people came to the trial out of curiosity, just to see what the woman and her baby looked like."
Nguyen Thi Oanh, now 40, was sentenced to death in 2005 for drug trafficking but her sentence was reduced to life in prison after she became pregnant in 2006. The death sentence will not be reapplied when Oanh's son — who lives with her in prison — turns 3.
Thuyen and Quyet confessed that they had accepted a bribe of $92 from Oanh's family to let the male inmate make five unsupervised visits to her cell, Linh said.
13 comments:
That is the type of crime deterrent that we needed in Cambodia. It it not perfect, but it does does work.
What happen to KI-Media? It seems that the Vietcong has hijacked this website and all of sudden I found so many Vietcong news?
I must admit I do sneak into the Vietcong website to see what they are up to but to have the Vietcong news posted in KI website is very ridiculous unless it is dealing with Cambodian people issue!
So please no more Vietcong news!
Hey, if you wanted to be narrow minded, that is your own businesses, but most people like to know about Cambodia and all of its neighbors.
To 3:38 PM
We must learn all events around the world to be good ourselves .
If you don't know all the mistakes they have done, you will do these mistakes one day.
How does that concern us? might as well change this website KWN instead of KI. Who cares about Ah Vietcong?
Yes, KI, please seperate these two news. They are not welcoming in this website. Khmers do need to know about what goes on in the world, especially in our region or Asia News, but there should be a seperate site for it. Please not here.
They live in our country , runs our government and the last we want to hear is Ah Vietcong names put their comments all over this website. Disgusting is what it will turn out to be and it's No for Ah Vietcong here!
Here KI.
That woman is better off dead. Did you see the ultimate abuse from whomever she did business with? First she got herself into selling drugs. Then she has to f... someone she doesn't care for in order to save her life and on top of that she has to spend her entire life looking a baby born out of this cruelty relatioship. How is she going to tell such innocent soul? or when he grows up? and just how long that little one is going to stay with that woman in prison? and how many more of those bastards people are going to use the same strategy to committ more and the same crimes? Is it a way out for the Viet government to say. o.k you go right ahead and continue to sell more drugs and there is a way out for you! Do you think that there will be No more of those bastards that can use more women to do their dirty secret crimes again by seeing this article? Wrong! It probably stir up a lot of Viet bastards in Cambodia now to try the same method and sell more drugs. All, because there is a way out! What is the purpose of publishing this article here, KI?
1:47AM don;t play god!
And can you see how people try to survive to be alive even in prison?
Live is presciuos anf full of hope!
Put any new ypu want KI, you do a verry good job! Even Hun Xen get scare of you!
Try to get more audiance than por commence would get louder and father!
If you know that life is so very prescious than you shouldn't be messing up with drug in the place. Your head need to be pounded with a hammer. So that you'll know excatly what we mean stupid!
Drug dealing should be a capital crime in Asia because most family depends on members to survive. If some members of your family are destroyed by drug, the parent and grandparent will suffered from lack of support from their children. It is as good as killing them. We should not treat drug dealing as misdemeanor as they do in the west.
Great pity to the policeman, who had the great humanitarian sense!
You see, the one thing that I like about the commie justice system is they promote confession by offering the accused sentence reduction, and it works lot of times and save the State from spending money on searching for evidences ... . In this case, it is probably impossible to get evidences, but they still have a successful conviction of the two cops.
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