A Cambodian Tycoon Who Savagely Beat a Female TV Star Will Be Free in 3 Months

[geovalin]

Real estate magnate Sok Bun is reported to have paid $100,000 in "compensation" to the victim

A Cambodian tycoon whose violent beating of a female television star last year was captured on video will be free in a matter of months after a court suspended much of his prison sentence for the assault.

In a case that has put the spotlight on how the Southeast Asian nation’s judicial system deals with violence against women and how it handles cases involving the wealthy, real estate magnate Sok Bun was given a sentence of three years in prison and fined about $1,500, but will be free within three months, the Cambodia Daily reports.

The prison sentence was reduced to only 10 months, seemingly because Sok Bun reached an out-of-court settlement with the victim, Ek Socheata. Sok Bun has already served nearly eight months in jail, but has reportedly spent much of that time in hospital being treated for multiple ailments, including “stress-induced insomnia.”

Women’s-rights activists complained that the court should have given Sok Bun a hasher sentence for the attack as a signal that violence against women would not be tolerated. Closed-circuit television showed the 38-year-old punching and kicking the diminutive former host known as Sasa in the face and dragging her by the hair at a Phnom Penh nightclub.

“The system is biased against women. It’s not just Sasa alone who receives this kind of treatment and vio­lence,” Thida Khus, an NGO director, told the Cambodia Daily. “Maybe people in the system have sympathy for him.”

The Phnom Penh Post said the victim had received about $100,000 in “compensation” and later said she wanted to the drop the charges against Sok Bun.

In Cambodia’s courts, cash payments to victims can often make a case go away, meaning that the country’s elites have practical impunity. This case appeared to be taken seriously, however, after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly warned Sok Bun — who previously held the honorary title Oknha, which is reserved for politically connected businessmen — that he must face justice.

“At least he experienced being in jail, even if for only 10 days. At least a tycoon went to jail,” the victim’s father Uth Thy told the Phnom Penh Post.

source: http://time.com/4225128/cambodian-tycoon-beat-tv-personality/

[momtaz]

Not only the women are the victims of the leniency of the justice system,

Children sex, raping minor kids by retired old foreigners and others, they keep them inside for a couple of years then they find their way out,,

A nation that does not protect the dignity of its citizens and grant them fair and equal justice for everyone will not achieve a remarkable development.

[ezzra]

Cambodian people's live don't matter.... after Africa where lives there are worthless, Cambodia

is just as bad.....

[daviddabit]

At least he spent '8 months' in jail and he also compensating the victim alot of money.

If this happens in Malaysia, the victim will definitely not getting any compensation and the accused will not need to serve any jail time.. But he definitely need to pay some money to the police or some politician to settle the case .. Lol

[klauskunkel]

who previously held the honorary title Oknha, which is reserved for politically connected businessmen

In Cambodia you get a title for paying off politicians. Oknha. This puts my Trivia meter over the top.

[daviddabit]

who previously held the honorary title Oknha, which is reserved for politically connected businessmen

In Cambodia you get a title for paying off politicians. Oknha. This puts my Trivia meter over the top.

Same goes to some of the countries in Asia. Malaysia is one of the popular country that 'sell' titles to anyone that can afford. There are so many people holding a title in Malaysia .. Some of them are only in their twenties but loaded with cash.

But it is very difficult to get a title in Thailand...

[Ulic]

8 months in a hospital, 100k and poof, all is smoothed over.

[Borzandy]

Cambodia and Thailand are the same corrupted third world countries.

[mercman24]

ok, wishful thinking,wouldn't it be great if when this poor excuse for a man gets out, some of her friends came round and punched him in the face to see how he likes it,