Officials deny deal for Banlung policeman who raped minors

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Officials deny deal for Banlung policeman who raped minors

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Officials deny deal was made for policeman accused of raping minors
5 January 2018
Local authorities in Ratanakkiri province yesterday denied negotiating a settlement for a district police officer accused of taking two underage girls to a guesthouse in Banlung town and raping them last month.

The suspect, a policeman named Meas Sorphorn, is accused of bringing the 12- and 13-year-old Jarai girls from Paknhai commune to Banlung town with promises of buying them cellphones and jewellery.

Instead, the family said, Sorphorn locked them in a guesthouse bathroom and raped them.

Puy Srak, the father of the 13-year-old, said family members noticed the girls looked pale and shaken that evening, December 20, and later learned they had been raped. When the family reported the incident to local authorities, officials encouraged them to compromise, Srak said.

“They said if we complained through the law, there would be no money and we should handle the case in our traditional way,” Srak said. “Therefore, we followed them.”

According to Srak, the commune chief, commune police chief and a district police official in charge of penal cases brokered the deal. The family accepted $12,000 in compensation on December 22.

Officials reached yesterday denied involvement. Paknhai Commune Chief Cheng Heng said he was not involved in the deal, arguing the commune “has no rights to solve this case”.
However, Commune Police Chief Ith Chhoeung said that Heng and the village chief had negotiated the compensation...

However, Deputy Provincial Police Chief Keo Davy said district authorities reported that the family was “confused” and that there “is no rape case”. She said provincial authorities are continuing to investigate.

As for Srak, he made a dark prediction that the village may not wait for the police to conclude their investigation.
“The rapist is still at his home and does not dare to walk out,” Srak said. “The one who commits wrong, the people will beat him to death.”
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Re: Officials deny deal for Banlung policeman who raped minors

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Looks like there is no deterrent to stop this happening again and again unless someone gets beaten to death then.
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