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Police in Ratanakkiri province on Saturday returned eight kidnapped boys to their families and arrested the man suspected of taking them away.

According to police, the children were playing outside when Thai Phum, 63, allegedly asked them to come with him, leading them into a truck and riding with them to Kratie province. Their worried parents later turned to police after finding their children missing.

Police found the boys in a pagoda in Kratie, where the alleged kidnapper said he planned to make them become monks, said police chief Ren Mut of Ratanakkiri’s Kon Mom district, adding that Phum’s story was dubious and that he might have taken the children to exploit them for labour.

“During questioning, the old man told police he wished to bring these children to be monks in Kratie but their parents didn’t know,” said Mut. “The pagoda didn’t know their plan to be monks . . . The children did not know.”

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This story reads like an episode from the Little Shop of Horrors on Wheels series....

Yuck.

Lucky children...being found so fast and returned to their parents...

Who knows what devious deeds would have befallen them if not discovered in time...

Good work!