
OmG!! Alcohol 'shayo' na bastard indeed!! A 14-
year-old girl was brutally beaten by her father on
suspicion she was involved in a school fight, the
Bac Giang Province Police, Vietnam says. The
victim, identified only as T, is being treated at
the Tan Yen District General Hospital with
multiple injuries as a result of the beating she
got from her father Nguyen Van Duong, 36, a
construction worker, on Friday, December 11.
"I and my friends witnessed a fight. A friend
used her cellphone to record the scene and later
asked me to continue recording with her phone,"
she told Thanh Nien reporter from her hospital
bed while keeping a fearful eye on the door for
her father. "He thought I was involved in the
fight. He asked me to take my pants off and lie
face down on the bed and used three broom
handles and two bamboo sticks to hit me."
She said her father had closed the door and
ordered her not to cry.
"I tried to ward off the beating with my hands
and my fingers were broken. He left me alone
and went to work after that."
T was rushed to the hospital by a concerned
neighbour. Doctors said the victim had severe
injuries in her back, buttocks and thighs and
broken fingers. T's grandmother Nguyen Thi
Vuong, who lives in a nearby district, is taking
care of her in the hospital.
"Looking at the injuries, I could not believe
they were caused by her father… I have
repeatedly asked Duong to allow her to stay
with me but he refuses." Vuong said.
A neighbor, who asked not to be named said, T
gets beaten very often by her father. "He even
tried to suffocate her once. Normally he is
gentle, but always becomes aggressive whenever
he is drunk." She said.
Duong Van Hanh, a local official said, Duong's
wife Nguyen Thi Hoan divorced him eight years
ago after he repeatedly beat her. She is now
working in Malaysia. Duong later married a 21-
year-old woman and they had a child. But she
too walked out on him with their four-year-old
child whom Duong also beat, according to the
neighbor. Hanh said commune authorities would
fine Duong and order him to not to beat his
daughter again. "We will also consider Duong's
rights to raise the girl and may let her stay with
her grandmother.''
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