Vietnam suspect blames meth for child
torture
Nguyen Thanh Dung is
pictured at a police station in Ho Chi Minh City.
A
suspect in custody for allegedly torturing and raping a child blamed his actions on the
influence of meth during an interrogation with Vietnamese police on Thursday.
Shortly
after his arrest on Wednesday by C45, the criminal police
unit under the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, Nguyen Thanh Dung was
taken to the ministry’s southern headquarters for investigation.
The
34-year-old man, from the southern province of An Giang, was the fourth
suspect identified by police in the Cambodian province of Kompong Cham for
raping and abusing a two-year-old Cambodian toddler.
Prior
to Dung’s arrest in Vietnam, the other three suspects, a Dutchman and two
Cambodians, were taken into custody by Kompong Cham police.
According
to officers, Dung appeared calm during yesterday’s interrogation with
Vietnamese police, admitting that he is the man in the child-torture videos
that surfaced online earlier this week and were met by widespread uproar.
In
one of the videos, Dung appears to hit a naked boy before torturing him with
a stun gun and strangling the child.
Police
say the investigation will continue until they identify when the footage was
filmed and how many abusive interactions Dung had with the child.
Nearly
50 different video clips showing Dung abusing various children were found on
his mobile phone, according to C45 officers.
Dung
also admitted to being in an intimate relationship with Stefan Struik, the
Dutch suspect arrested in the case and CEO of Kamkav, a company with cocoa
plantations in Mondolkiri and a palm sugar plant in Kompong Cham.
Dung
said Struik had given him some money to return to Vietnam and open a company,
but the two still keep in touch and maintain a sexual relationship.
The
suspect underlined that neither he nor his partner had sexually abused the
toddler. “We are still working with Cambodian police to verify this aspect of
his testimony,” a C45 officer noted.
Dung
also confessed to police that the victim in the video is one of the twin sons
of a couple employed on Struik’s cocoa plantation. Dung said the crimes took
place when the couple asked him to babysit the child.
He
also claims he may have been under influence of meth and lost control of his
behavior during the horrific event.
Dung
said he feels remorse of his actions and has tried to commit suicide twice
since the videos but failed in both attempts.
The
suspect said he felt hurt by the shouts and cries from the toddler while he
watched the video at the police station.
A
C45 officer said Dung has only made initial testimonies and police are
working to verify his confession.
“Judging
from his appearance, Dung displays no signs of being a heavy drug user,” the
officer said.
In
the meantime, C45 head Ho Sy Tien said Vietnamese police have yet to make
plans to extradite Dung to Cambodia as local police still must “work with him
to clarify some details.”
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Thứ Năm, 8 tháng 12, 2016
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