Many heartbreaking cases
In April 2026, in Cho Moi commune (An Giang), subject Le Thanh Tuan met H (12 years old) who was taking a ride (because he knew her before). On the way, Tuan lured H to drink soft drinks. Tuan took H to a coffee shop to drink water and then controlled H to have intercourse. After committing the crime, Tuan fled.
In June 2025, the Investigation Police Agency of Kien Giang Provincial Police (old) initiated a case, prosecuted the accused, and executed an Order to arrest the accused for temporary detention against Nguyen Van Tri (resident of Can Tho City) to investigate the act of having intercourse with a person from 13 years old to under 16 years old.
Through investigation, it was determined that at the beginning of 2024, Tri had repeatedly had sexual intercourse with his nephew (born in 2008), leading to pregnancy and giving birth to a baby boy.
Or the alarming case in February 2026, the Investigation Police Agency of An Giang Provincial Police issued a Decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the defendant and issue an arrest warrant for Nguyen Van Phong (born in 2007, residing in Vinh Gia commune) to investigate the act of "Rape of a person under 16 years old".
At the police station, Phong confessed to knowing on social networks an unidentified subject (foreign nationality) who needed to buy videos recording male homosexual scenes for 200,000 VND per video. Phong wanted to have money for personal spending, so he agreed to do so.
To get the films as agreed, from November 2024 to June 2025, Phong lured N.T. D (resident of An Giang province) to perform male homosexual acts many times, filmed with his phone at Phong's house and D's house.
Coordinate to thoroughly prevent from cyberspace
From 2025 to now, An Giang province has recorded 133 cases of abuse, the police of units and localities have investigated and solved 127/133 cases, arrested and handled 132 subjects. Through investigation and handling of cases, An Giang Provincial Police have found many causes. A part of subjects have a deviant lifestyle, taking advantage of the immaturity and lack of self-protection skills of children to commit crimes.
The management and education of children in some families is still loose; many parents have not really paid attention to and supervised the use of children's phones and social networks.
In some cases, children lack skills to recognize risks, are reluctant to share with their families and schools when threatened or abused. Coordination between families, schools and society in some places is not really close; the detection and denunciation of child abuse acts is sometimes slow, affecting the effectiveness of prevention and handling.
Colonel Nguyen Nhat Truong - Deputy Director of An Giang Provincial Police - said that the responsibility for preventing this type of crime is not only of the Police force alone but is the common responsibility of families and schools. In which, families play a particularly important role in managing, educating, and protecting children; schools need to strengthen life skills and self-defense skills; local authorities and functional sectors must regularly review and manage subjects at risk of violating the law, and promptly detect abnormal signs related to children.
The Provincial Police also hopes that parents will spend more time caring for and accompanying their children; promptly detect abnormal signs to coordinate with functional agencies to handle them early, contributing to protecting children from the risks of being abused in reality as well as in cyberspace.
