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05 Mar 2008
DPA
Phnom Penh - A Cambodian man convicted of smacking a female motorist's bottom was handed a one-year suspended jail sentence and his friend was sentenced to the same term in absentia, a court official said Wednesday. Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor Kry Soky said Van Theara, 22, remained on the lam after being found complicit in delivering a playful slap on the bottom to a female motorbike rider which his friend had claimed was meant as a joking compliment.
He said Theara's friend, Khun Pheakdey, 18, had been ordered to pay compensation of 350 dollars and released after already serving five months in jail for his moment of indiscretion.
"This is not a funny story because funny stories do not end up in court. This is sexual harassment. A polite man takes a strange girl he likes by the hand, not by the bottom," Soky said by telephone.
The case was prosecuted after the victim's parents heard about the incident and filed a complaint to the court, he said.
05 Mar 2008
DPA
Phnom Penh - A Cambodian man convicted of smacking a female motorist's bottom was handed a one-year suspended jail sentence and his friend was sentenced to the same term in absentia, a court official said Wednesday. Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor Kry Soky said Van Theara, 22, remained on the lam after being found complicit in delivering a playful slap on the bottom to a female motorbike rider which his friend had claimed was meant as a joking compliment.
He said Theara's friend, Khun Pheakdey, 18, had been ordered to pay compensation of 350 dollars and released after already serving five months in jail for his moment of indiscretion.
"This is not a funny story because funny stories do not end up in court. This is sexual harassment. A polite man takes a strange girl he likes by the hand, not by the bottom," Soky said by telephone.
The case was prosecuted after the victim's parents heard about the incident and filed a complaint to the court, he said.
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