Vietnamese embassy visits Cambodian victim in child torture video   Nguyen Thanh Dung is pictured at a police station in Ho Chi Minh City. Tuoi Tre The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia on Sunday visited the family of a local toddler, who was seen being abused by a Vietnamese national in a viral video that sparked widespread outrage in both countries last week. Counselor Nguyen Manh Cuong led the diplomatic delegation, joining members from the General Association of Vietnamese Cambodians (GAVC) to call on the family in Keo Phos District, located in the southwestern Cambodian province of Preah Sihanouk. In a video that surfaced on the Internet earlier this month, the family’s two-year-old son, also of Vietnamese origin, was seen being tortured, strangled and hit with a stun gun by a Vietnamese man identified as Nguyen Thanh Dung. Dung, hailing from An Giang, a southern Vietnamese province bordering Cambodia, is in Vietnamese police’s custody for investigation, following his arrest on December 7. The embassy’s delegation consoled the family on the pain their son had to endure, reassuring them that competent Vietnamese agencies are working actively with their Cambodian counterparts to resolve the case and bring justice to the victim and his family.   In response, the toddler’s family extended their thanks to the embassy and the GAVC, expressing their hope that the case will soon be settled. The child is being fostered by Senator Oknha Mong Reththy, deputy head of the Cambodian criminal police unit, and is leading a stable life at a new plantation, away from where he had the nightmares with Dung. As earlier reported, the victim is the son of a couple who work for the cocoa plantation run by Dutch national Stefan Struik, a sexual partner of Dung. Struik was charged on Friday for allegedly concealing evidence and failing to report the abuse, according to the Cambodia Daily.   Senator Reththy spoke highly of Vietnam’s cooperation in resolving the case, as well as the timely solace from the embassy to the victim and his family. During an interrogation with Vietnamese police, Dung confessed his act but argued that he might have been under the influence of crystal methamphetamine when torturing the kid. Police also found 49 videos of him abusing the child in his mobile phone.   As regards these videos, the Cambodia Daily quoted James McCabe, head of the Cambodian police’s Child Protection Unit, as saying that the clips show the same suspect and victim. All of the videos capturing the “cruel and sadistic acts” were filmed in a streak of four days in late August, according to McCabe. The Child Protection Unit chief also told the Cambodia Daily that work is underway to extradite Dung back to Cambodia to face trial. “I am hopeful that it will be a successful application, but it will take some time as procedures need to be followed – and primarily due to the high profile nature of this investigation and the offender,” he told the Phnom Penh-based daily. TUOI TRE NEWS