14-year-old brutally beaten by her drunkard Dad
A 14-year-old girl, T was brutally beaten by her father on suspicion she
was involved in a school fight, the Bac Giang Province Police, Vietnam
says 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.
T 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 to be unnamed, 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.
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 to be unnamed, 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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