Vietnamese police are cooperating with their Cambodian counterparts to investigate a Vietnamese man accused of brutally beating a small child in Cambodia.
Speaking to reporters, Major General Ho Sy Tien, Head of the Criminal Police Department, said that the police from both countries are searching for a Vietnamese suspect named Nguyen Thanh Dung from An Giang Province.
Nguyen Thanh Dung (right) suspected to be the man who tortured the child in Cambodia (photo by Cambodiadaily)
The Ministry of Public Security revealed a video clip showing a Vietnamese man torturing a 2- year-old at a cocoa plantation in Cambodia has been circulated.
The clip 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.
Deputy Mondolkiri police chief So Sovann was cited by Cambodiadaily as saying that the abuse had occurred on a plantation in the province and said the victim was a Cambodian child whose parents worked for the Dutch owner. Dung, who was believed to be the man in the clip, was thought to have fled to Vietnam.
The child's mother did not know about the abuse because the child was not bruised or visibly injured. However, a police report provided by Deputy Kompong Cham police chief Heng Sambath said that there was strong physical evidence that the boy had been anally raped.
James McCabe, Head of the Child Protection Unit, a policing charity working on the case, said that the child was in the organisation’s care.
The police have also arrested two Cambodia people and one Dutch person suspected of being involved in the child’s maltreatment.
