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"It is safe to say this man seems to have treated his pigs much better than his wife" - Heing Vuthy, Cheung Prey district police chief in theon eastern province of Kampong ChamPhnom Penh - A German man was facing 10 to 20 years in a Cambodian jail after police allegedly rescued his wife in what they claimed Wednesday was one of the worst cases of domestic violence they had seen. Alvin Gossnol, 37, was arrested after police received complaints from his 38-year-old wife's family that she was being held against her will in their home and had been badly beaten.
Cheung Prey district police chief in theon eastern province of Kampg Cham, Heing Vuthy, said the woman had managed to escape a room she had been locked in for two weeks but had been unable to scale the locked gate because her hands were broken.
"She managed to attract the attention of a boy who was passing and he ran to tell her relatives, who called the police," Vuthy said by telephone.
"After we pulled her over the wall, she told us when they married in 2001, her husband had made a special stick to beat her with. If she got the stick for him herself, he didn't beat her as badly, but if he had to get the stick, he beat her very seriously."
Police said Gossnol was at the home when they arrived but refused to open the gate. He only left the woman alone long enough for her to escape when their 8-month-old baby began crying.
"When we came back with a warrant, we found the stick, exactly as she had told us and it was still covered in her blood," Vuthy said.
The baby was rescued and returned to the mother, police said.
Gossnol, a pig farmer whose exact place of birth in Germany was not available, was jailed pending trial. Under Cambodian law he can be held up to six months pretrial.
"It is safe to say this man seems to have treated his pigs much better than his wife," Vuthy said.
Earlier this month Cambodia temporarily banned marriages of its nationals to foreigners, saying they feared often poor and under-educated women were especially vulnerable to abuse.
Divorce is still frowned upon in Cambodia, and the women also frequently feel a financial obligation to their families to stay with their foreign husbands no matter how bad it gets.
11 comments:
Well, if stupid dirt poor Cambodian people stereotype that all foreigners are good to them and let this be an example!
Please learn how to treat these foreigners as individual person!
Yeah, but who promoted the west to them? Could it be Ah Khmer-West?
Fuck you bitch! Without the West and you would be eating dirt!
Bullshit, without the west, we wouldn't be suffering in poverty right now; get it, retard?
WTF! who ever made the comments saying without the West Khmer people would be eating dirt is a mother f-in dumbass! F*%K the Germans! pedifile mother f*&Ker's..get the f out of Cambodia!
Sunti
Not every foreign husband is bad. She was just too stupid to get away from him in the first place.
The ignorant Khmer leaders are to blame when their poor people can't survive in their own country and seek to depend on foreigner spouse.
Had our country's economy is good enough for those poor women to survive and live close by to their relatives, they would not have chosen a foreign husband.
this german guy is probably on drugs or something. this is a rare incidence. i'm sure the german embassy has something unpleasant to tell him as well. what a low life he is beating on his wife like that, to say the least. he deserves jail terms.
This is a Khmer woman lives in her own country and got rescued by her people when such violence occured. That's luck. But those women who live with their men in foreign countries like S. Korea or Malaysia would likely face silent death and without much hope to be rescued from anyone. Good to be at home. You still got friends and family to assist you. So stay home and be safe and secured.
domestic violence ought not be tolerated, period, in cambodia or anywhere else on this planet.
this is an isolated incidence that a foreigner abused his wife in cambodia. i hope everyone look at everybody who married cambodian men or women as individual not as a race, color or what have you. everyone's situation is different, sometime the wife is bad, sometimes the husband is too violent, maybe due to drug or alcohol or who knows what. therefore, can't judge that all foreigners who married khmer are like that because not everybody is like this guy. i hope he is punished for this cruel act of his toward his family.
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