Kandal teen gets 20 years for murder of 9-year-old

[geovalin]

Niem Chheng

The Kandal Provincial Court yesterday sentenced a 16-year-old girl to 20 years in prison for the murder of her 9-year-old neighbour in Ang Snuol district.

Oeurn Sopheap was charged on November 9 last year with the murder of Keat Seavly, whose body had been discovered a few days before drowned in a rice field close to her home in Tomloup Kpos Cheung village.

Sopheap was accused of stealing Seavly’s gold earrings and a platinum ring, which Sopheap sold at a nearby market for $28.

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[oxo1947]

Of course you feel for the little child parents-----but you have to also feel for her parents--siblings etc, honest people who have probably lived in this village & will continue to live there with what their child did hanging over them for ever.

[gyrosman]

sad to know and understand the punishment (20 years), but yet a movie star and TV GUY GETS A SLAP ON THE WRIST. The drunk mini van and bus drivers, plus taxi people robbing, gangs killing a handicap man gets some time??????????????????

[Khon Kaen Dave]

My god,16 years old.What sort of psychopath is this kid? It brings back memories of the Jamie Bulger case.