A local court Tuesday upheld its June verdict, handing out 23-year jail sentences each to a local couple for torturing their 14-year-old employee with boiling water, hot iron, coals and pincers.
The trial in the southernmost province of Ca Mau rejected their appeal and sentenced Huynh Thanh Giang, 30, and his wife, Ma Ngoc Thom, 33 to 20 years imprisonment each for “intentionally causing physical injury” to Nguyen Hao Anh and another three years for torturing him.
The pair owns the Minh Duc Shrimp Breeding Farm in the province where Anh worked as a housekeeper and caretaker.
According to the indictment, the couple regularly tortured the boy until he was rescued by police in late April.
They poured boiling water on Anh’s back, pressed a hot electric iron on his legs, stuffed hot coal in his mouth, and used pincers to break five of his teeth, prosecutors said.
Anh was found with broken teeth, burns, a broken nose, and a swollen face.
Accessories Luu Van Khanh, 17, and Lam Ly Quynh, 18, who worked with Anh at the farm and who turned a blind eye to the couple’s inhuman acts, were sentenced to 18 months in jail each.
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