Boy arrested with phony drugs now awaits fate

[geovalin]

Niem Chheng

 

A 14-year-old boy in jail since August is set to spend at least another three weeks there despite prosecutors admitting in court yesterday that a substance found on him during his arrest was not methamphetamine as believed.

 

The teen, Thy Visal, was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district more than three months ago when police saw him distributing packets of a substance they initially believed to be meth.

 

In court yesterday, Visal said that the substance was aluminium sulfate, used for purifying water, a fact supported by test results confirmed by prosecutors.

 

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[autoc]

Who cares dope in Cambodia anyway, its everywhere ! Poor boy, free him and kill the retarded corrupted who arrested him !

 

 

[foxboy]

he's only guilty of fraud at worst, and nobody is going to give evidence anyway. Who would come forward and say "I was trying to buy Meth of him"

Let the lad go I say

[soalbundy]

Give him a fake sentence.

[khundon]

I suggest his fate hangs not with the court, but with the people who bought the fake drugs.