Police in the southern province of Dong Nai on Monday said a six-year-old boy died last weekend after being inside a car for too long, ruling out a possibility that the child was sexually abused before his death.
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| The six-year-old boy received treatment at the Dong Nai Children Hospital on November 28, 2015. He died here on the same day. |
Police in the southern province of Dong Nai on Monday said a six-year-old boy died last weekend after being inside a car for too long, ruling out a possibility that the child was sexually abused before his death.
The six-year-old boy received treatment at the Dong Nai Children Hospital on November 28, 2015. He died here on the same day. Photo: Le Lam
“Our autopsy has found that the cause of death was suffocation,” Colonel Nguyen Van Tho, spokesperson of the provincial police department, told local media.
The boy, whose name has been withheld, died on Saturday afternoon at the Dong Nai Children's Hospital.
Doctors said he suffered a serious brain injury due to a prolonged and serious lack of oxygen.
The boy’s father, Nguyen Van Vu, said he and his wife were working at a carpentry workshop in Trang Bom District on Friday afternoon when they realized that their little boy had gone missing.
As they was walking around looking for their child, a strange man appeared from a roadside coffee shop. He then approached his car and carried the boy out from the vehicle, Vu said.
The boy was unconscious and naked at the time, Vu said.
Vu and his wife rushed their child to a nearby hospital, which then transferred the boy to the Dong Nai Children's Hospital in serious condition.
“I heard some of the doctors discuss... and they said my son might have been raped," Vu told Tuoi Tre newspaper.
“When I held him, I saw bruises,” he said.
Vu said the stranger man, who has been identified by the police, gave his family VND2 million (US$89), to pay the medical costs.
The father said the stranger claimed that the boy had got into his car without his knowledge and accidentally locked the car.
But Vu said he was not satisfied with both the stranger’s explanation and the investigators' conclusion.
“My boy was very shy, so I don’t believe he opened the car and got in,” Vu said.
Vu said his family was too poor to send their son to school, so they let him play at the workshop.
The stranger is believed to have come to the workshop several times to buy its products. He has been interrogated.
(Source: TNN)
