Proposal to change the crime of an 8-year-old girl in Ho Chi Minh City being abused

On the evening of May 5, lawyer Tran Thi Ngoc Nu – the defender of the legal rights and interests of Girls – said he had signed a petition to the Director of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Procuracy to change the crime from Torture to Murder for Nguyen Kim Trung Thai (37 years old, the girl’s father was abused).

Previously, the People’s Procuracy of Ho Chi Minh City completed the indictment against Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang (27 years old, living in Gia Lai province) for murder and torturing others under Clause 1, Article 123 and Clause 2, Article 140 of the Penal Code. In summary, the highest penalty frame is the death penalty.

Thai was charged with the crimes of Torturing others and Concealing crimes under Article 389, the maximum penalty frame of which is 8 years in prison. Lawyer Tran Thi Ngoc Nu said that it is necessary to review the entire behavior of Nguyen Kim Trung Thai.

“Forensic examination results recorded injuries caused all over the body of the girl. With the body of an 8-year-old child, any area is a dangerous area and in fact the damage caused The cause of death for the baby was not due to head injury.”female lawyer expressed her opinion.

Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang and Nguyen Kim Trung Thai.

According to the lawyer, the criminal behavior through recorded camera data reflects the despicable and cruel criminal motive (beating the body of a naked child, kneeling, having hands and feet tied …) , the purpose of the crime is to intentionally cause injury (using dangerous weapons to beat, kick … into all areas of the child’s body, including the private area).

Crime takes place consecutively, many days, many times, even at night, performed with the same methods, tricks, and means, occurring at the same place. As a result of the offence, an 8-year-old child died.

Ms. Nu believes that the behavior from December 7 to December 22, 2021 has caused consequences, so it is impossible to separate the chain of actions that occurred on December 22, 2021 (the day VA died) to handle a sin.

According to the lawyer, the sequence of actions of Nguyen Kim Trung Thai has been determined. Specifically, Thai is the father of baby VA, but together with Trang scolded the girl, once used a dangerous weapon to beat baby A. Every time Trang beat her, Thai saw it directly or watched it through the camera.

“This action of Thai contributed to injury, was the cause of death, or was an additional factor leading to death; was helping and promoting Trang’s actions that caused the injury to be the cause. Therefore, Thai must be jointly responsible for Trang’s wrongdoing of the crime Killing“lawyer Tran Thi Ngoc Nu stated in the petition.

According to the content of the case, Trang has an emotional relationship and lives them with Thai. Thai entrusted her daughter, NTVA (8 years old) to Trang to take care and teach.

From December 7 to December 12, 2021, she witnessed Trang beat and torture baby VA many times, but Thai did not intervene, but also beat and tortured her daughter with Trang.

On December 22, 2021, after learning that Trang beat baby A. to death, Thai logged into the camera management application and deleted all data from 4 cameras in the apartment to hide the lover’s criminal behavior.

According to the conclusion of the forensic examination, baby VA died from acute pulmonary edema due to traumatic shock.

According to Zing