8 year old girl beaten by father, leaving bruises all over her body
An 8-year-old girl was tied to a pillar and beaten with bamboo sticks by her drug-addicted father. When summoned by the police, the father fled the area.
On the afternoon of February 21, Ms. Le Thi Huong (33 years old) brought her daughter, Le Thi Thu Nhung (8 years old), to the People's Committee of Nong Truong commune to report that her biological father abused her.
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Baby Nhung was beaten and her body was bruised. Photo:Lam Son. |
Ms. Huong said that after nearly 10 years of living together, due to an unhappy marriage, the couple divorced in 2017. Nhung and her brother lived with their grandparents and father in Nong Truong commune. She returned to live with her biological parents in Van Son commune, Trieu Son district.
On the afternoon of December 20, she received news that her daughter had been beaten by her father, so she immediately went to her ex-mother-in-law’s house to visit her daughter. When she arrived, Ms. Huong saw that her daughter had many bruises on her buttocks, face, arms and back.
"The baby was beaten most severely on the buttocks with many dark purple bruises," the mother said, adding that she was shocked to see her child being beaten by her husband.
Taking her daughter back to her parents' house, Ms. Huong asked her daughter and she told her that her father had beaten her many times. The most severe beating happened yesterday afternoon. "She said her father tied her hands to the house pillar and beat her very hard with a bamboo stick. The reason she said was because she was not studying as well as her brother," the mother said.
After the beating, the girl showed signs of psychological instability and was afraid of meeting strangers.
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Not only her buttocks, her face and hands were also full of whip marks. Photo:Lam Son. |
Many neighbors said they were unaware of the incident because they were working in the fields at the time. The child’s grandparents were also away from home. A man living nearby reported the incident to the authorities.
The leaders of Trieu Son District Police have sent investigators to verify the incident. The girl is being taken for injury assessment.
Mr. Luong Dinh Phuong, Chief of Nong Truong Commune Police, said that the police had summoned the father, Le Dinh Hai (35 years old), to clarify the act of child abuse, but he had fled the area.
According to the police, Hai has no stable job and has two previous convictions for illegal drug trafficking and transportation.
