Nghe An: Young man in trouble with law for living with 15-year-old girlfriend
(Baonghean.vn) - After meeting online, Cong took his girlfriend away from home to rent a room to live together. Meanwhile, the family still thought the girl was missing.
On March 28, the Criminal Police Department (PC 45, Quang Nam Provincial Police) announced that it had just prosecuted and detained Ho Dinh Cong (22 years old, residing in Bac Son hamlet, Tam Hop commune, Quy Hop) for the crime of Sexual intercourse with children from 13 to under 16 years old, according to Article 145 of the 2015 Penal Code.
Speaking to reporters, Captain Luong Quoc Nghia (PC 45, Quang Nam province) said that a few months ago, while working at a bar in China, Cong met a 15-year-old girl living in Cua Dai ward (Hoi An city, Quang Nam province) online. At that time, the girl was only in 9th grade. After chatting many times on Facebook, the two developed feelings for each other.
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| Cong got into trouble with the law for having sex with a girl under 16 years old. Photo: Hien Tung |
Before Tet, Cong returned to Vietnam and went to Hoi An to meet his girlfriend. The female student then followed her boyfriend to Da Nang without informing her family. On February 13 (28th of Tet), the couple went to Ho Chi Minh City to rent a house and live together.
"Not seeing the daughter contact, not coming home during Tet, the family was confused, thought she was missing so reported to the police", Captain Nghia said, during the investigation, the detectives received information that before going missing, the female student was with a young man of unknown origin, speaking with a Central Vietnamese accent. From this clue, the police determined that the female student left home to follow her new boyfriend.
Meanwhile, after renting a room and living together for a month in Ho Chi Minh City, Cong took his underage girlfriend back to his hometown to meet his family. However, Cong was later arrested at home by detectives from Nghe An Police in coordination with PC 45 (Quang Nam Provincial Police) while he was preparing to take his girlfriend to Lang Son for work.
At the police station, this young man admitted to having had sex with a 15-year-old girl many times.
