Police are searching for the person who killed a seven-year-old girl over a pair of fake earrings worth about 2,500 riel (about $0.62) in Kep province on Sunday, police said after finding her body yesterday morning. Kep town deputy police chief Kong Sokheng told Khmer Times yesterday that police were investigating and trying to find the killer.
 

“We are gathering information by questioning the victim’s parents and residents near the scene and until now, we are still investigating. We think the suspect and the victim may have known each other,” he said. Mr. Sokheng said that if they had known each other it would have given the suspect a reason to kill the victim and not be easily identified, adding that someone unknown to the victim would not have killed her for earrings only worth 2,500 riel.
 

Mr. Sokheng said the girl had followed her parents to a pepper plantation on a mountain where they worked about one kilometer from their village, but she went down the mountain without telling anyone. Once they realized their daughter was missing, they searched for her but could not find her so they filed a complaint to the police.

 

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Agree hyku, a very slow and very painful death !  Poor little girl RIP.

 

why ?  just why !  at worst steal the jewelry  but killing a child like that deserves death surely !

 

What a sad story.  So sorry for the little girl and her family.  I wonder if the girl could have been murdered by another child since surely the obvious low value of the ear-rings would be of no interest to an adult, while another child might  easily covet them as desirable objects.

Why do they assume the motive was theft? 

Pure evil, regardless of the reason though

Who in their right mind would think a poor farm girl would be wearing expensive ear rings? Unless of course it was some other kid. 

 

I think there is more to this story than what meets the eye. The ear rings are more likely a Trophy more than a Prize. 

8 hours ago, romeijoe said:

why ?  just why !  at worst steal the jewelry  but killing a child like that deserves death surely !

 

DOnt say that. You will upset all the liberals