Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Three arrested for kidnapped child's death

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Cambodian police arrested three suspects in the abduction and slaying of the 8-year-old son of a U.S. embassy security guard, officials said.

Guard Kong Rasy, 42, was told if he paid the kidnappers they would return his son but a villager found the boy's badly beaten body in a park after Rasy paid the abductors $3,500, The Phnom Penh Post reported Tuesday.

Rasy said the kidnappers originally asked for $100,000 but later dropped the figure to $30,000.

"The kidnappers said if I did not pay them the money, they would cut my son's fingers off one by one," Rasy said.

Ministry of Interior officials said police arrested three suspects.

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