On January 25, Ho Chi Minh City People's Court opened the appellate trial of Huynh Thanh Loi (25 years old, living in Nha Be district, Ho Chi Minh City) for crime "Children's lewd ".The victim is the defendant's nephew, D. (5 years old).
Huynh Thanh Loi was tried by the People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City "Children's lewd".
According to the indictment, when the mother and sister -in -law sold lottery tickets, sending the baby D. for Loi to take care of.Taking advantage of the innocence and ignorance of the 5-year-old girl, Loi has performed sexual abuse 3 times with D. D. on 6, 7 and 13-12-2013.
On January 14, 2014, D.'s mother heard the baby, so she went to the police of Phuoc Kien commune, Nha Be district to report.At the investigating agency, Loi claimed to watch many sex movies on mobile phones, so they were stimulated and desire to lead to the act of lewdness with his biological granddaughter.
With Loi's behavior, the CSDT has proposed to prosecute two crimes of "child rape" and "Children's lewd".However, based on the results of the forensic examination for D. concluding, "the hymen does not tear, does not see sperm", Loi also only confessed to lewd behavior, not acknowledging his niece rape.In addition to the testimonies from the sides, the CSDT also did not provide any other evidence to prove the rape of baby D. Therefore, on June 24, 2017, after many trials, additional investigation, additional investigation,The Panel decided to suspend the investigation of the "child rape" case against the defendant Loi for not having enough evidence but continuing to prosecute the crime of "children's lewd".
On August 16, 2017, Ho Chi Minh City People's Court opened a first instance trial and sentenced the defendant Huynh Thanh Loi to 4 years in prison for "children's lewdness".After the first instance verdict, defendant Loi had an appeal to mitigate the penalty.
Defendant Loi sincerely declared, looking forward to reducing the sentence to take care of his elderly mother.
At the appellate trial this morning, defendant Loi said that after being arrested, nearly 3 years Loi was very repentant and regretted about his criminal act.Just because of a superficial minute, unable to control himself, obsessed with the depraved film, the defendant watched so he was lewd with his niece."I hope the Panel will consider reducing the punishment for the defendant so that the defendant will soon return home and take care of his elderly mother, no one to take care of.", defendant Loi sincerely in court.
The representative of the victim was also not present in the court, before that the victim also asked to reduce the penalty for defendant Loi to soon return home to reunite with his family.
The Panel held the first instance sentence, sentenced to 4 years in prison for Huynh Thanh Loi.
After the deliberation process, the Panel found that the defendant's criminal act was clear, the sentence level that the first instance sentenced was completely consistent with the crime that the defendant Pham had.Therefore, the Panel decided to reject Loi's appeal and sentenced to 4 years in prison for "children's lewdness".