Suspected Child Torturer Captured In Vietnam
Cambodia Daily | 8 December 2016
A 25-year-old Vietnamese man was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday evening in relation to graphic videos allegedly showing him repeatedly torturing a young Cambodian boy, according to an investigator involved in the manhunt.
James
McCabe, head of the Child Protection Unit, a policing charity involved
in the investigation, said Nguyen Thanh Dung was arrested shortly before
9 p.m., a day and a half after the videos were leaked online.
“I
can confirm that Task Force Uniform members made an arrest in Saigon of
a Vietnamese national, the name of Nguyen Thanh Dung,” Mr. McCabe said,
adding that the force involved Cambodian and Vietnamese police units.
He
said two Cambodian men who had been arrested by police on Tuesday were
released without charge, and the suspect’s Dutch boyfriend, 53-year-old
Stefan Struik, was cooperating with authorities investigating the case.
Police
said Mr. Struik, who holds Cambodian citizenship and owns cacao
plantations and a palm sugar warehouse in the country, would be sent to
court today for allegedly failing to report the abuse.
Mr. Struik
was taken into police custody along with the Cambodian men, who were
employed on his plantation, in Kompong Cham province. He was to be sent
to the provincial court in Mondolkiri, where the abuse occurred, police
said.
Under police questioning, Mr. Struik “said he didn’t know
anything, he didn’t do anything wrong,” said deputy Mondolkiri police
chief So Sovann. “He said [he and Mr. Nguyen] are not lovers, but he
said they love each other so much.”
Police said the three had been
questioned over the 2-year-old boy’s torture and a separate complaint
filed by the toddler’s parents, who cited physical evidence of anal
rape.
A YouTube video shows at least two separate instances of
torture involving the man and boy, apparently shot with a smartphone in a
static position.
The man in the video at one point blindfolds the
boy and ties his hands behind his back, repeatedly using a taser on his
head, feet, backside and genitals, making the boy scream and cry. At
another point, he slaps him around and shoves his fingers and another
object down his throat, making him choke.
Mr. Sambath said Mr.
Struik and the two Cambodian men told police they had only become aware
of the abuse, which took place on Mr. Struik’s cacao plantation in
Mondolkiri, after the videos appeared on Facebook on Tuesday.
One
of the Cambodian men told police that he believed the videos were leaked
online by one of Mr. Nguyen’s cousins, who was jealous that he had
found a wealthy partner. However, the Vietnamese woman who appears to
have leaked the video said in an accompanying message that she was
exposing the torture in the hope that the perpetrators would be caught.
The
boy in the video had been sent to the state referral hospital in Sen
Monorom City for an examination and was in stable condition, Mr. Sovann
added. Mr. McCabe said the boy and his family “will be supported.”
I was a North Vietnamese boy and abused by the South Vietnamese boys a lot when I was in my teen. By mid-teen, I fought back and inflicted massive brain damage to the South Vietnamese kids. I made them much better human beings. That's how you deal with the South Vietnamese, inflict massive brain damage to them.
ReplyDeleteDuring 1979 - 1989 occupation in Cambodia, troops from South Vietnam kept raping the Cambodian women for fun, so the Commanders from North Vietnam sent those troubling troops into Khmer Rouge's death traps.
ReplyDeleteThousands and thousand troops from South Vietnam died needlessly so that the troops from North Vietnam can see where the Khmer Rouge was staging the death traps.
Less South Vietnamese = better for both Cambodia and North Vietnam.
Anonymous10:32 AM and Anonymous10:35 AM are the same poster named DrgunZet and also this poster is a Vietnamese dog eater trying to play nice and a victim himself. There is no North Vietnamese troops to help rescue Cambodia, but invaded Cambodia because of Pol Pot's disagreement with the Vietnamese master-minded killers from Hanoi about the giving up the land and island to Vietnam and the fight to get Southern Cambodia or Khmer Krom (is now called South Vietnam). Why did the Vietnamese masters from Hanoi installed their puppet Hun Sen and jailed Mr. Pen Sovan (who disagreed with Vietnamese masters from Hanoi to create 5K (that ended up killing more than half of millions of Khmer people after 1979 under Hun Sen's regime installed by Vietnamese military troops and master-minded killer in Hanoi).
ReplyDeleteAgain, DrgunZet is talking nicely, deadly and playing to be a victim of the child molester and abuser. He is bullshitting.