Teenager receives three-year suspended sentence after taking VND 750,000 from a 10-year-old girl selling lottery tickets in Phan Thiet.
On October 4, Detention Center No. 3 of the Lam Dong Provincial Police said it had coordinated security for the trial of L.Đ.T., who was charged with robbery.
According to the verdict, at about 1:30 p.m. on June 7, L.Đ.T. met 10-year-old T.T.T., born in 2015, who was selling lottery tickets on Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in Phan Thiet. The teenager said his father needed to buy lottery tickets and asked the girl to go with him.
L.Đ.T. at the trial in the robbery case. Photo: Lam Dong Provincial Police.
After seeing money in T.T.T.'s basket, L.Đ.T. moved close, snatched VND 750,000 and ran away. Local residents heard the girl's cries, chased him, detained him and recovered the money.
The defendant was 16 at the time of the incident, while the victim was 10. L.Đ.T. was prosecuted for robbery under Point g, Clause 2, Article 171 of Vietnam's Penal Code because the victim was under 16.
The court sentenced L.Đ.T. to three years in prison, suspended, for the offense.
Sources: Dân Trí
