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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on April 15, 2022, 11:54:47 PM
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Vietnamese man sold his daughter, 13, to Chinese traffickers for $4,300 to pay for medical treatment
Lo Pho Pheng, 47, sold his 13-year-old biological daughter to a man in China for over 150 million Vietnamese dong (approximately $6,550) when he lacked the money to pay for medical treatment for a heart condition.
Pheng met with Lo Thi Cam, 35, in 2018 to propose selling his daughter, who referred him to Moon Thi Xum, 46.
Xum and a man identified as “Hong” took Pheng’s daughter to China to be sold off.
Pheng was able to receive 100 million VND (approximately $4,367). Xum also received 7 million VND (approximately $306), and Cam received 13 million VND (approximately $568).
Pheng’s daughter was able to escape back to Vietnam in October 2021 when she filed a denunciation of the crime to the Investigation Police Agency in the Kỳ Sơn District Police.
In the courtroom, the defendants pleaded guilty to their crimes. Pheng said that he “did not think straight” because of his lack of knowledge and poverty-stricken situation.
Xum was sentenced to 13 years in prison, while Cam was sentenced to 12 years. Although the victim requested a lenient sentence for her father, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for “trafficking of a person under 16.”
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Vietnamese man sold his daughter, 13, to Chinese traffickers for $4,300 to pay for medical treatment
Lo Pho Pheng, 47, sold his 13-year-old biological daughter to a man in China for over 150 million Vietnamese dong (approximately $6,550) when he lacked the money to pay for medical treatment for a heart condition.
Pheng met with Lo Thi Cam, 35, in 2018 to propose selling his daughter, who referred him to Moon Thi Xum, 46.
Xum and a man identified as “Hong” took Pheng’s daughter to China to be sold off.
Pheng was able to receive 100 million VND (approximately $4,367). Xum also received 7 million VND (approximately $306), and Cam received 13 million VND (approximately $568).
Pheng’s daughter was able to escape back to Vietnam in October 2021 when she filed a denunciation of the crime to the Investigation Police Agency in the Kỳ Sơn District Police.
In the courtroom, the defendants pleaded guilty to their crimes. Pheng said that he “did not think straight” because of his lack of knowledge and poverty-stricken situation.
Xum was sentenced to 13 years in prison, while Cam was sentenced to 12 years. Although the victim requested a lenient sentence for her father, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for “trafficking of a person under 16.”
Hmmm... So, I guess he thought he was just selling Pho.
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In vietnam, we go with last name first but them names do not look vietnamese at all. Maybe people living in Vietnam but origins are from the indigenous tribe or something.
Only Lo Thi Cam sounds vaguely familiar.
Thi is a common middle name. I have Thi in my family as well but my middle name is not a Thi. Cam means orange.
Either way, selling your kids is nothing uncommon. Poverty makes people do that. Sad to be that family though.
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In vietnam, we go with last name first but them names do not look vietnamese at all. Maybe people living in Vietnam but origins are from the indigenous tribe or something.
Only Lo Thi Cam sounds vaguely familiar.
Thi is a common middle name. I have Thi in my family as well but my middle name is not a Thi. Cam means orange.
Either way, selling your kids is nothing uncommon. Poverty makes people do that. Sad to be that family though.
Yeah, I've heard daughters being sold off to prostitution to pay off debts and boys to slavery... happens here in America too.
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In vietnam, we go with last name first but them names do not look vietnamese at all. Maybe people living in Vietnam but origins are from the indigenous tribe or something.
Yeah, like the Chinese...For example Yao Ming, first name: Ming, last name: Yao
As far as the Pheng Lo goes, yeah, he could be one of those Hmong that lives in Vietnam or half Viet and just modified his name... ???
Pheng Lo, same name and spelling as that Hmong community leader killed in Stockton a while back...