Sunday, January 20, 2008

Cambodian mother, friend charged over sale of daughter

Sat, 19 Jan 2008
DPA

Phnom Penh - A Cambodian mother and her female friend have been charged with selling her daughter and another young woman, local media reported Saturday. Som Vanny, 42, a karaoke shop owner, and her friend Sour Sarun, 55, were arrested after reports she had sold her 17-year-old daughter and another 20-year-old girl to a foreigner of unspecified nationality for sex, local newspaper Koh Santepheap reported.

The Khmer-language daily quoted Sun Bunthon, anti-trafficking police chief of the northern province of Siem Reap, 400 kilometres from the capital, as saying the two women face up to 20 years in jail if convicted. It did not say how they had pleaded.

Impoverished Cambodia, notorious for human trafficking and sexual exploitation, has made serious efforts to shake off its seedy reputation and made dozens of arrests in recent years. Karaoke shops are often thinly veiled fronts for prostitution in the country.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dollars are pouring every where and every year to Cambodia which had about 13-14 million people but Cambodians are still poor, FUCK YOU AH HUN Khvack !!!!

Anonymous said...

This is a manifestation of AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave economic success over the years!

I know how much dirt poor Cambodian people need help but with AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave standing in the way like this and dirt poor Cambodian people will continue to suffer even more!

Anonymous said...

Finally a report on the abuse Cambodian parents commit on their children, but here the mob only knows how rant again.

Anonymous said...

To 11:22PM

Hey fool! If AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave economic policy lift dirt poor Cambodian people from poverty and why the fuck dirt poor Cambodian people are selling their children just to put food on the table?

It takes a mob to know another mob!