Police arrested a man in Koh Kong province on Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting his friend’s two young daughters over the course of a day and a night.
Chhim Rady, 25, had been asked by his friend to take the girls to school, but when he picked them up from their house in Mondol Seima district at 1 p.m. on Thursday, he told them that he was taking them to see a waterfall instead, according to deputy district police chief Mak Ny.
After driving to a secluded area on a nearby mountain, he raped the 8-year-old five times and sexually molested the 4-year-old at least once, Mr. Ny said.
“The suspect confessed to raping the older sister and assaulting the younger sister,” he said. “He took away the two children for a night to rape them.”
The girls’ parents told police about their missing daughters on Friday morning and Mr. Rady was arrested shortly thereafter, upon returning with the children, he said.
Mr. Ny said the older girl told police that she was raped three times before nightfall and twice after dark.
“This activity was very cruel,” he said, adding that the suspect had tested positive for drugs and would be sent to the provincial court on Saturday.
In a separate case, police are searching for a man who raped a 5-year-old girl on a construction site in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Thursday night.
The girl had been playing alone at the site, where her parents lived and worked, and was assaulted shortly after nightfall, said deputy district police chief Hour Mengvang.
By the time her parents found her, the suspect had already escaped, he said.
“We suspect that the man who raped the girl is a worker employed on the construction site,” he said. “We invited three workers for questioning today to find the suspect.”
