An 18-month-old boy in HCM City was beaten to death by his babysitter because he cried and refused to eat.
The incident happened on November 16, in Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District. Ho Ngoc Nho, 18 years old, was accused of the crime that led to 18-month-old Do Nhat Long's death.
Long is the only son of a poor couple, Do Trong Duc and Vo Thi Huyen, who hired a room in the ward. Every day, they took their son to Nho’s house for daycare. The couple came from Binh Dinh Province to HCM City for work.
On November 16, when they were on the way to their work, they were told that Long was taken the emergency room for treatment at a hospital in District 9 and that he was in critical condition. When they arrived at the hospital, doctors said Long had died due severe trauma.

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At the police station, Nho said that on November 16 morning, when she was giving meal to Long, he cried and refused to eat his meal, so she held his legs to turn him upside down, accidentally dropping him on the floor.
After the fall, she claimed, Long continued crying. She admitted to stomping on him after the incident, then leaving him in the bathroom. About twenty minutes later, she said, he was laying motionless.
Nho called on neighbourers for a car to take him to the hospital, telling them that, he had fallen, but Long died before he arrived.
Pham Ngoc Minh, head of the residential area No. 6, where Long’s parents live, said that more than 70% of local residents are immigrants who are mostly poor workers, adding that they cannot afford to take their children to standard preschools.
Many local people showed their anger over Nho’s cruelty, asking for the strictest punishment under law.
Early in 2008, the public was also angered over a clip the maltreatment of a child by a babysitter named Quan Thi Kim Hoa towards children. The clip depicted Hoa pulling their hair and pouring rice into their mouths, while beating them. Most of the children were from one to three years old.
In 2010, another video clip surfaced showing the cruelty of babysitter Tran Thi Phung in Binh Duong Province toward a three-year old girl. Phung pulled the child’s hair and continuously splashing cold water in her face and up her nose. She also stomped on the girl who was on the concrete floor while screaming at her.