Police in the southern province of Binh Duong arrested three people who took advantage of homeless elderly people to beg for their own profit.
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| One of the elderly men acting as a beggar |
The suspects are one couple, Ly Thi Ha, 30, and Doi Sy Truong, 32, along with Truong’s sister Doi Thi Dung, 36. They are all from Hau Loc District, Thanh Hoa Province.
They coerced dozens of elderly people, between the ages of 60 and 70, to beg for them in the town of Thuan An.
The group hired rooms for them, and gave them stipends of between VND700,000 (USD33.98) to VND1 million (USD48.54) per month, depending on their health and how much money they could bring in. The elderly beggars said that they would earn from VND100,000 to VND400,000 (USD4.85-USD19.4) per day, all of which they handed over to the ring leaders.
Before the arrest, Dung hired a room in Binh Chuan Ward in Thuan An for two elderly people The room was usually unoccupied, with the residents leaving home at 6am and returning at 10pm, which surprised neighbours.
Dung would take all her \'employees\' to markets in Thuan Giao residential area in the morning and return home to wait for their earnings.
The Thuan An Bureau of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs took five elderly people in the ring to the provincial social sponsor centre for care. Local police are still investigating the case.
Dung with two beggars
On the way to the markets
Begging
