Three Women Arrested in Phnom Penh for Forcing Children to Beg
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:23 pm
Could this be the effect of bad MFI loans?
Parents leaving Kandal provinces Sa’ang district due to losing their land because of bad debt?
And trying to eek out a living on the streets of PP by using their children to beg?
I'm sure we will never know, as it is not in the interests of certain people to have that kind of information.
But makes you wonder though.
Three Women Arrested in Phnom Penh for Forcing Children to Beg
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Eight children, aged 3 months to 10 years, were in the care of a “safe center” on Tuesday after three women were accused of forcing them to beg for money on Phnom Penh’s streets, officials said.
The women, related to each child as either a mother or an aunt, were arrested on Monday near an intersection in Tuol Kok district’s Phsar Doeum Kor commune, said Keo Thea, chief of the municipal anti-human trafficking bureau.
Police believe one of the women had hired the 3-month-old baby to be used for begging and forced the other children to beg by hitting them, Mr. Thea said.
Each child could earn 5,000 to 80,000 riel, or $1.25 to $20, per day, he said.
“If the mother forces the child to beg or hires the child to beg, then we will enforce the law,” Mr. Thea said.
Mao Ouk, 48, Sam Kun, 43, and Tey Oun, 18, were accused of “inciting minors to beg,” he said.
If convicted, the women face up to a year in prison and fines of 100,000 to 2 million riel, or about $25 to $500.
The eight children were sent to the municipal department of social affairs and the three women have been detained at the Phnom Penh anti-human trafficking bureau since their arrest, Mr. Thea said on Tuesday. The women would be sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today for questioning, he said.
The women told police they had arrived in Phnom Penh from Kandal province’s Sa’ang district in recent weeks or months, he said...
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https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thre ... eg-131873/
Here's a recent report about all the villagers in Sa’ang district up to their necks in debt through MFI loans.
Kandal drowning in debt
"The same World Bank report pointed out that 88 percent of Cambodia’s debts were held by households in the more impoverished rural areas of the country – places like Kandal province’s Sa’ang district, which has one of the highest instances of debt in the country"
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/kan ... -elections
Parents leaving Kandal provinces Sa’ang district due to losing their land because of bad debt?
And trying to eek out a living on the streets of PP by using their children to beg?
I'm sure we will never know, as it is not in the interests of certain people to have that kind of information.
But makes you wonder though.
Three Women Arrested in Phnom Penh for Forcing Children to Beg
"
Eight children, aged 3 months to 10 years, were in the care of a “safe center” on Tuesday after three women were accused of forcing them to beg for money on Phnom Penh’s streets, officials said.
The women, related to each child as either a mother or an aunt, were arrested on Monday near an intersection in Tuol Kok district’s Phsar Doeum Kor commune, said Keo Thea, chief of the municipal anti-human trafficking bureau.
Police believe one of the women had hired the 3-month-old baby to be used for begging and forced the other children to beg by hitting them, Mr. Thea said.
Each child could earn 5,000 to 80,000 riel, or $1.25 to $20, per day, he said.
“If the mother forces the child to beg or hires the child to beg, then we will enforce the law,” Mr. Thea said.
Mao Ouk, 48, Sam Kun, 43, and Tey Oun, 18, were accused of “inciting minors to beg,” he said.
If convicted, the women face up to a year in prison and fines of 100,000 to 2 million riel, or about $25 to $500.
The eight children were sent to the municipal department of social affairs and the three women have been detained at the Phnom Penh anti-human trafficking bureau since their arrest, Mr. Thea said on Tuesday. The women would be sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today for questioning, he said.
The women told police they had arrived in Phnom Penh from Kandal province’s Sa’ang district in recent weeks or months, he said...
Read more
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thre ... eg-131873/
Here's a recent report about all the villagers in Sa’ang district up to their necks in debt through MFI loans.
Kandal drowning in debt
"The same World Bank report pointed out that 88 percent of Cambodia’s debts were held by households in the more impoverished rural areas of the country – places like Kandal province’s Sa’ang district, which has one of the highest instances of debt in the country"
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/kan ... -elections