The 11-year-old boy, Kong Sovanarath, a year 7 student at Sothearos High School, skipped school yesterday afternoon. This made his 60-year-old grandmother angry, and she gave him a sound thrashing.

She was taken to the office of the Child Protection Unit and reeducated.







http://www.arey-news.com/archives/218417

Jesus, poor kid.

I say give the same to the old witch and see how she likes it.

she wasn't beating him. them marks look like a typical Khmer massage. probably trying to cure his headache so he could go to school

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Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:17 pm

Looks like coat hanger.

The kid may be skinny ,,, but I wouldn't call him a '' coathanger ''.

I joke about a lot of things and don’t take too many things seriously but, an adult beating a child black and blue is not something to joke about.

Please step into Cambodian shoes for a minute. To western eyes this is atrocious and criminal, but it is normal practice for grandma to use a cane to discipline family. I was caned at school and that was 45 years ago in the uk. It was normal then. My mother had a cane, but it ws rarely used, maybe 2 times in my life. it has taken us 45 years to get to the point where it is illegal but you can still slap your child, so even with our head start we are not perfect. You cannot change cultures overnight, much as you might want to. You have to bring change through education

There is a difference between a cane over the buttocks or knuckles once or twice and what this kid was subjected to.

I would say, even 45 years ago, if you beat a child as bad as the picture shows you would not get away with it.

But for the Khmer culture of deferential respect to elders, he should have grabbed whatever she was whipping him with and thrashed her to fuck with it.