Working ‘mother’ kept child chained
A day after Prime Minister Hun Sen pointed out the need for more effective child protection in Cambodia, police in Koh Kong arrested and released a woman who admitted to chaining her 4-year-old “adopted daughter” inside their house eight hours a day for the past two years. Authorities and rights workers placed the girl in a Ministry of Social Affairs-approved shelter on Friday evening, after following up on a complaint lodged by a fellow resident of the house in Kemarak Pumin town’s Smach Meanchey commune, which shelters as many as 60 farmers. Police and rights group Adhoc found the small girl sitting on the floor with a chain padlocked around her ankle, securing her to a building post. She told police that once, desperately thirsty, she drank her own urine. …
Sen David
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