The cruel boss (L) and the 2 young victims (Photo: DAP)
A 17-year-old domestic servant shows off welts and scars that rights activists say were caused by his employer. (Photo Supplied)Monday, 16 August
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post
“We are worried that she will not get punished according to the law, even though she used these children as slaves, because her husband is an officer in the Ministry of Interior, and now he will try to use his rank to ask for her to be released”A PHNOM Penh woman accused of torturing two teenagers she employed as domestic servants has been sent to court for questioning after her arrest on the weekend, police said.
Sao Chanthy, 38, was arrested by police in the capital’s Sen Sok district Friday after a local rights group accused her of splashing hot water on two teenagers working in her house.
On Sunday, the woman was transferred to Phnom Penh Municipal Court following questioning by police officers, said Mak Hong, Sen Sok’s police chief. Police believe the woman doused a 17-year-old boy with hot water after she suspected him of theft.
“She checked the child’s pockets and found 11,500 riels. It caused her to become angry, and she threw hot water on the child’s belly,” Mak Hong said.
Scars found on the 17-year-old’s body and on the body of his 14-year-old sister will be used as evidence to suggest the two were abused, Mak Hong said.
Am Sam Ath, technical supervisor of local rights group Licadho, said neighbours brought the case to the group’s attention last week.
“The victim children told us that they always get tortured by the house owner. She throws hot water on them, cuts their faces with a knife and regularly beats them and pokes them in the eyes,” Am Sam Ath said. The two children have recent scars on their stomachs, hands and necks.
The two are originally from Takeo province, but came to work in the capital – the 17-year-old in 2004, and his sister in 2007 – for wages of 50,000 riels per month, Am Sam Ath said.
But he said he was concerned Sao Chanthy would ultimately face no legal consequences for her alleged actions, since her husband is a lieutenant colonel working at the Interior Ministry.
“We are worried that she will not get punished according to the law, even though she used these children as slaves, because her husband is an officer in the Ministry of Interior, and now he will try to use his rank to ask for her to be released,” he said.
Ek Chheng Huot, deputy prosecutor at Phnom Penh Municipal Court, confirmed yesterday that he had received the case, but he said he would not review it until today.
Risky business
Human rights advocates say domestic workers are particularly at risk of abuse because they spend their days and nights behind locked doors, away from the public eye.
Last October, police launched a raid on a villa in Sen Sok district, freeing an 11-year-old girl, and it was later revealed that she had been abused for months after being sold into domestic servitude.
In February, Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced Meas Nary to a maximum 20 years in prison for her role in detaining and abusing the girl. The woman’s husband, Var Savoeun, was given a 10-year term.
22 comments:
i wish the court would allows the teenager boy splash a pot of boiling water at her and call it even. just see how the fat woman would reacts. next time before she even think of hurting any human being she would think of her own experience. she is one hell of the animal.
I just hate the system. When you are rich and powerful you always get away with things. In this case, this women should pay for what she has done. Shame on you, lady!
Put her in jail. Anyone who has no respect for human life should be in jail... There are a lot criminals roaming Cambodia. We are not proud to have these people on the streets and making Cambodia like a wild west. Without Ro beab reap roy where everyone will respect the law and order of the country, people are going to school and learning what it means about ro beab reab roy at all levels. Cambodia cannot develop and will never be a country of pride with the rest of this world. Our people are smart and gentle but we must give the tool and enforcing the law to bring them to the next level. Time is money and this case is very right for Cambodia. Surely, we don't have time to waste.
Sao Chanthy is in trouble.
Wrong line.
Sar Kheng line.
Not Hun Sen line.
I saw Hun Sen and Sar Kheng when they shook hand they look hating each other to die.
This woman is totally dangerous to any servances, her face is day in day out i can bet you most the time is out of controll. Why?
- Her nature face expreesion daily moodily.
- She's costantly mad with her husban getting extra affair then only one way to support bad moody is to abious her slave(s)in the house, not thing can help her better way since stock in door without husban, this maen anything could go wrong with this trash heep woman.
Please khmer brother & sister get away from her life.
This kind of people are all over cambodia, if they are a member of high ranking officials or rich powerful family, these people abused and beaten, cursed at poor weak people who work around the house, especially young kids from the countryside or orphan.. i heard one of my brother neighbor curse at the girl who work around the house everytime?...when i visit him!
$3.00?, that's my tip for one round at the club!
Didn't know khmer people are this evil.
Authority must punish this FAT BITCH in jail for along time! to teach other out there a lesson also! cambodia has this kind of system for along time...i hated this very much! they need to get rid of these stupidity systems completely!!!!!!! splashing hot water is the samething as splashing an accid? the boy will suffer the rest of his life..?? i think this cruel bitch should spent the rest of her fucken life behind bars!!!!
Communism was born because of abuses like that. Don't give me wrong, I am no friend of communism but when the rich and the powerful are so abusive, the victims usually acumulate the hatred and will unleash it whenever they can and however they can.
Thai and Viet are the same shit! not just cambodia you fuckface! everybody on this planet are evil dumbass!! Otherwise, we all living within each other peacefully...stupid fuck!!your ass probably got wip from stupid parent too? don't play dumb!
Everythings in this fucken world are evil...fucken Thailand is not any better? fucken worse than cambodia bitch!
Look at her face - damp dumb
This woman must be charged and thrown behind bar to warn all others who are doing the same evil acts. They deserve to be in hell. No place for them in "human" society. Human race has suffered enough.
this woman is cruel. she should be in prison for abusing human rights like this!
gov't of cambodia ought to discourage this kind of abuse and cruelty on another human beings! otherwise, people don't learn thinking they can get away with abuse such as this! i don't care who you are; this is not right! especially it is now in the media for everybody to see, this woman is in deep prahok for sure!
When the court sends her to serve behind bars, she'll be screwed by those security guards (front and rear).
For crying out loud! For the wife a Lt. Col. acted as if she was God.
I'm quite sure that she'll be screwed by those security guards.
7:32 AM
You said everybody on this planet is an evil , does that include you ? You are such an idiot, thats what you are .
That fat lady looks so mean and ugly . Her fat ass belongs to jail , according to what she has done .
She is an ugly pig!. She has to go to jail what she did. If the court sets her free, there will be many mpre case like this in Cambodia.
So what happen to the brother and sister now? where do they go..poor them, i feel so sorry for them
That's a fucken left over khmer rouge face.
1:32pm that is the only one magic medecin to stop her act of violent.
As I have mentioned abow this Piggy woman is alwas moody feeling becaouse her husban left her behind in the house. She need her husban screwwing both side front & back but it's contrary he screw most younger WOMEN instead, though any thing can go wrong with this HAWAIAN PIGG.
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