Girl, 14 admits killing 4 year old
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[Mod edit: picture of the girl edited out. She's a minor. The Khmer tabloid publishes it, but they're rags with poor ethics. Picture can be seen there]
A 13 year old girl in Kampong Speu province killed a 4 year old girl and stole her earings. She sold the earrings to get money for a mobile phone. 82,500r.
http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/112217.html
A 13 year old girl in Kampong Speu province killed a 4 year old girl and stole her earings. She sold the earrings to get money for a mobile phone. 82,500r.
http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/112217.html
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She'd better be careful someone doesn't cut off her head to get that necklace.
Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
Years ago there was a similar case of a young girl drowning a toddler for her jewellery too and out of jealousy or revenge.
What goes wrong with the kids to think that killing another child is an option?
What goes wrong with the kids to think that killing another child is an option?
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Khmer religion (Dollarism)Joon wrote:Years ago there was a similar case of a young girl drowning a toddler for her jewellery too and out of jealousy or revenge.
What goes wrong with the kids to think that killing another child is an option?
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Joon wrote:Years ago there was a similar case of a young girl drowning a toddler for her jewellery too and out of jealousy or revenge.
What goes wrong with the kids to think that killing another child is an option?
Who knows? Cog Sci would say PTSD/brain chemistry, but I wonder if in this case it was innate or socially initiated. One could well ask what made the Khmer slaughter just about all the intelligent Khmer's of Cambodia just to remain in power? (that is my overall view of the exceptionally brutal civil war, Khmer intelligentsia killing any other educated person for power/wealth and NOT a utopian idealism for a more just and fair society, think Pol Pot V. Ho Chi Minh.) At least in Rwanda it was against perceived genetic differences (equatable perhaps to bloodline in some people's thinking) introduced by the Belgians And there was not as much PTSD around in KH before the KR. Why do you think the KR were so brutal to their own people? (Khmer I mean) I can't remember reading any story in recent world history that compares, even in China/ Russia - can anyone else?. A head for an eye and all that stuff. Scary shit if your not Khmer because for me so hard to fathom the thinking behind it just like in those girls cases.
K440 : Lucky cheese for the gentry; poultry and death for the peasants.
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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
A shocking story from the PPP this morning. It reminds me of the Bulger killings in Liverpool twenty years ago, although there was no financial motive in that case.
A 14-year-old in Kampong Speu has reportedly confessed to drowning her 4-year-old relative in order to steal and sell the victim’s gold earrings and buy a new mobile phone, according to officials.
At about 2pm on Saturday, the suspect, the teenage girl used sugarcane to lure Seit Khem Chang, 4, to a small dam in Samrong Tong district’s Krang Svay village, said James McCabe, operations manager at the Phnom Penh-based Child Protection Unit, which investigates violence against children.
The teen reportedly confessed to drowning the child in the water, placing rocks on her body to keep her down and stealing her earrings, which she sold at a local market for $20.50, according to McCabe, who said the suspect then purchased a $19 Nokia mobile about 50 metres from the victim’s home.
“I am a bit shocked that it was a female offender and that the offender was only 14 years old,” McCabe said yesterday
The victim was a distant cousin of the suspect, said Samrong Tong district Police Chief Hut Sophal.
The suspect has been sent to the provincial court and will likely be charged today, Sophal said.
“It is obvious it is a murder case, and it was intentional.”
CPU officials, who were alerted to the alleged drowning late on Saturday night, arrived on the scene at about 5am, McCabe said. He praised local authorities in their investigation, which produced evidence including the victim’s earrings, the clothes the suspect wore at the time of the incident and the phone she purchased.
Along with a confession, the suspect demonstrated how she carried out the gruesome killing on video for authorities, McCabe said.
In Cambodia, the minimum age of “criminal responsibility” is 14; given the evidence, the provincial court will probably charge the suspect with intentional murder, said legal expert and lawyer Sok Sam Oeun.
Because she is a minor, the teen will likely receive a lesser penalty than an adult who committed the same crime.
“If her age is 14, it means she’s reached the age of criminal responsibility … [but would likely receive a sentence] half of what an adult would,” Sam Oeun said.
The penalty for intentional murder in the Kingdom is 10 to 15 years of imprisonment, Sam Oeun said. The suspect would likely face five to seven-and-a-half years if convicted.
The age of the suspect and alleged brutal nature of the crime surprised Sam Oeun, he said.
“I do not see similar cases like that … [with seemingly] no mitigating circumstances.”
In 2014 there were 221 cases in 17 provinces involving serious crimes – including rape and murder – where the victim was under 15, McCabe said.
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K440 : Lucky cheese for the gentry; poultry and death for the peasants.
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
Does Cambodia have some kind of rehabilitation program for young offenders?
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I think so, but not only is it useless but it might even be more damaging.
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I'd been wondering if the girl had any history of violent behaviour or criminality, and then I read what the police chief said.
And what is her real age? The PPP says 14 and the CD says 12. It's an important detail if the minimum age of “criminal responsibility” is 14.“This girl has been badly behaved since she was a child and always stole other people’s belongings”
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