How Could You? Hall of Shame-Vietnam-Nguyen Thi Phuong

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From Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam, “shocking video has emerged of a five-year-old girl screaming after being strung up by her wrists by her cruel Vietnamese foster mother as punishment for taking a carton of milk.

The tiny child, whose hands are tied, can be seen hanging several feet above the floor from a horizontal pole in a building in the Vinh Tuong District of northern Vietnam’s Vinh Phuc Province.

The footage, which is too distressing to show in full, sparked outrage in Vietnam and led to the arrest of the child’s foster mother. Incredibly the youngster suffered no serious physical harm as a result of her ordeal.

Police detained Nguyen Thi Phuong, a grocer who was fostering the child, identified only as N.P.N.A.

The sickening punishment was allegedly imposed because the little girl took a carton of milk to drink.

She was in foster care after her parents, from the nearby Phu Tho Province, were both jailed for unreported offences.

Phuong and her husband were the girl’s foster carers, though her husband was not identified in reports and it was not clear whether he knew about how the girl was being treated. He was not arrested.

Deputy chairman of Vinh Tuong District Le Chi Thai confirmed that an arrest had been made.

He added that the little girl in the clip had been taken to hospital for a check-up and found to have suffered no serious physical harm.

Relatives had picked her up as soon as the film of her being punished became public, he said.

Details of charges against Phuong were not reported but Thai added that treating a child the way she apparently had was ‘unacceptable’ and she would be prosecuted.It was unclear who shot the video or how it come to be shared online.”
Five-year-old girl screams after being strung up by her wrists by her cruel Vietnamese foster mother to punish her for taking a carton of milk

[Daily Mail 6/28/17  by Julian Robinson]

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