Arun was at the time accused of a raft of misconduct, including fraud and physical abuse, leading to the child torture court case against him. Earlier this week, a lawyer representing the orphanage told the Khmer Times that a teen witness had gone missing from the facility on Sunday, and that he feared Arun was manipulating her and other children to testify in his favor. The girl was at the courthouse on Friday. Media and NGO monitors were barred from the session, with a court official saying it was due to Covid precautions.
Sao Vita, one of four defense lawyers, said the allegations against Arun included torture against about 10 children under his care. Vita said there was some dispute about child witnesses changing their answers, with fears of manipulation on both sides, and whether the orphanage was allowing all children who wanted to testify in defense of Arun to come to court. On Friday, a judge had asked four of the child witnesses whether they loved justice and the truth, Vita said. Tan Keattech, one of four lawyers representing the orphanage, said he had nearly 10 witnesses, including resident children and former facility doctors and staff members, alleging torture.
But there were also opposing witnesses on the other side, he said. He said children who wanted to testify were being allowed to do so freely, and the orphanage had on Friday driven child residents who would be testifying for Arun to the court. No part of this article may be reproduced in print, electronically, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without written permission.
VOD is not responsible for any infringement in all forms. The perpetrator may be subject to legal action under Cambodian laws and related laws. VOD is a local independent media outlet producing radio programs and disseminating information to the public via the Internet. See all results. She says there are widespread cases of children being kept out of school to entertain foreigners touring or volunteering. Others skip school or fall behind in class without a parent overseeing them.
At an orphanage in Takeo Province, which hosts many non-orphans, volunteers come and go regularly. The children are well-fed, attend school regularly and have art and play areas.
Even this can have a lingering effect on a child. Sinet, who is now a writer and advocate against foreigners volunteering in orphanages, says she is still traumatized by the constant stream of tourists who seemed invested in her, but were only in it for the short term.
The Australian government is also looking at legislation to ban its citizens from volunteering in orphanages. It bans orphanages from taking on new children unless they are proven to be parentless or in an abusive situation and it requires registration and regular inspection.
But the campaign is slow-moving. The whole system is weighed down by a lack of trained social workers to facilitate the delicate process, as well as a reliance on NGOs to help cover costs to keep reintegrated students in school.
At Kien Khleang Orphanage Center in Phnom Penh, Seav Meng, who has almost finished university studies in electrical engineering on a full-ride scholarship, believes his life would pale in comparison if the government had reintegrated him as a child, as has been the fate of roughly 40 children at his orphanage in the last year. Noy Ty, a year-old living in a provincial orphanage for 11 years, echoes this sentiment. There, I cannot. In a rural town in Battambang Province, a single mother named Toem Aun bemoaned the return of her daughter from an orphanage.
Since then, her daughter has slipped out of her school routine while trying to integrate into the local school and no longer has access to IT and English classes.
With regards to negative repercussions of living in an orphanage, Aun shrugs. W While experts say there is no proof that orphanages link students to superior education, Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron has repeatedly conceded that Cambodia needs more schools. What is clear is that Cambodian students want those with the power — be it the government or international investors and tourists — to create better options for them. Kosal Visal, a year-old who has lived in a Phnom Penh orphanage for a decade striving for an education that his two farmer parents never had says that, as things stand, orphanages are still the best option.
So you choose the orphanage. It points to specific examples of cyclical exploitation, including more than children who attempted to flee an orphanage in Guatemala in , but were caught by police and placed in confinement.
Facing neglect, 56 girls who were piled into one room started a fire to draw attention. Police didn't respond, the report says, and 41 girls died. The research shows that orphanage trafficking is more prevalent in tourism-driven countries with institutions that are established in key tourist areas.
The report also warns of psychological harm to children caused by a revolving door of volunteers and tourists. Barrister Parosha Chandran said the report could come as a shock to well-intentioned orphanages or generous donors.
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