Thread: Mother of Cambodian teen found dead says she was working to pay family debts

A Cambodian woman who authorities say was killed by two Chinese nationals last month dropped out of school when she was 15 to help her parents pay off bank debts, her mother told Radio Free Asia.


Police found the heavily bruised and naked body of 18-year-old Heng Seavly in a shallow grave near a lake in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district on March 1.


On Monday, investigators announced the arrests of her boyfriend, 30-year-old Chen Cong, and 34-year-old Li Haohao.


Police said the suspects confessed to the killing, adding that they believed she was about to leak information about a cyberscam operation in Phnom Penh.

Relatives held a funeral for Heng Seavly in her hometown in southern Kampot province on Tuesday.


“When I saw her brought into the temple, my energy and soul flew out of my body,” said her mother, Tim Sophy.


“My daughter was naked when they killed her,” she told RFA. “This is so brutal. As a mother, I am shocked and speechless.”


As the eldest daughter, Heng Seavly left home to work as a goods vendor in Sihanoukville to help her parents support her two younger siblings, Tim Sophy said.


She was later persuaded by her boyfriend to move to Phnom Penh, the mother said.

“She was my fabulous daughter,” she said. “She never missed sending US$250 to $300 each month.”


Police have said the two suspects acted on the orders of another Chinese national, 26-year-old Yang Kaixin, who remains at large.

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She was my fabulous daughter,” she said. “She never missed sending US$250 to $300 each month.”

Terrible poverty trap when SE Asian families think the prostituting their daughters is fabulous. Not so fabulous now.

I don't think she meant that. The deceased might have been fabulous in many other ways besides the money. Family ties are often very strong in Asia.

where does it say the victim was a prostitute? the article stated she was a food vendor.

"goods vendor".

And yes, our resident chimp is being very presumptuous.

Yes, she was just an ordinary goods vendor making the equivalent of 100 baht a day but was able to support herself and send home $300 a month to dear mom. And just happened to get mixed up with some unsavory fellows who innocently visited her shop when they wished to purchase some Tupperware.

^ so not all muslims are throat slicing terrorists, but the murdered corpses of poor asian girls were automatically whores.

street vendors with a business mind and offering decent food or a good product in a busy market can easily make enough to save $300 a month. maybe not in bongo bongo land where you washed up, but in asia definitely.

get back to snarfing flyblown worm infested bushmeat from your foodtruck you toilet cleaning idiot.