Father arrested for abusing his 4-month-old son.

In his statement to the investigating authorities, Tien said that on the evening of February 3rd, he picked up his son, Chau Minh Khoi, from his wife's house and brought him home to Long Phuoc ward, District 9, Ho Chi Minh City, to take care of him. After breastfeeding, he rocked the baby to sleep in a hammock.

Around 11 PM, little Khoi woke up crying. Tien tried to comfort him but he wouldn't stop, so he angrily slapped him. The child cried even more, so he continued to hit him and yanked the hammock, causing Khoi to fall to the ground. Seeing his son injured, Tien was terrified and called his father to take him to the hospital.

The victim was determined to have sustained 37% injuries.

Khoi was taken to the hospital with multiple injuries to his legs and face. Tien told the doctors that the child had fallen while lying in a hammock. The child had a broken leg but surgery was not possible due to other injuries and a brain hemorrhage. The injuries suggested the child had been abused, so the doctors notified the police.

According to Nguyen Hong Tim (20 years old, Khoi's mother), she lived with Tien as husband and wife for about two years. Since Khoi was born, he had beaten the child many times, and when she tried to intervene, she was also beaten. Recently, conflicts arose between them, and she took Khoi back to her mother's house.

That day, she went to work as a waitress at a pub in the Suoi Tien area, more than 10 km from home, leaving Khoi with his great-grandmother. Afterwards, Tien picked him up.

Tien's father said that at first, the two of them were playing happily together, but about an hour later, he came over and said, "Little Khoi is dying" and they had to take him to the hospital. Tim only found out about it after her son had already been admitted to the hospital.