23 YEAR OLD WOMAN SUFFERS DAMAGED ON FACE DUE TO ACID SPILLED ON HER BY HER HUSBAND FOR CHEATING.

The police in Cambodia are investigating a lover’s quarrel that turned violent on Tuesday when a 23-year-old garment worker was doused in acid, allegedly by the wife of a man she was in a relationship with.
  The victim, 23 year old Pheng Sreyla pictured above,  yesterday described how she was held and beaten by the wife and several family members of her lover, 36-year-old Choem Vuthy.

“While they were beating me, the suspect grabbed two bottles and poured them down on my head,” she said.

“I felt very hot on my head, face and my eyes; it was like fire.”

  Sreyla, a garment worker at a small handicraft manufacturer, was collecting her paycheck when she was allegedly set upon by Vuthy’s wife, Chhum Savun, 34, along with Savun’s mother, Huy Van, 66,
  and siblings, Chhum Savarng, 37, and Chhum Sarvuth, 28.

“Now I cannot see, and the doctor told me that if I still cannot see in two weeks, I will be blind forever,” Sreyla said through tears.

  Returning to her Ralaing Kroeul commune home for police interviews, Sreyla said she was seeking justice. She is three months pregnant with Vuthy’s child.

“I know that I love her husband, but I have never wanted them to get divorced. I told the suspect that I am willing to be the second wife,” she said.

  Sam Sak, the chief of the Kampong Speu provincial police’s serious crimes bureau, said yesterday that three people had been arrested after Pheng Sreyla was attacked with acid outside the garment factory where she worked.
  “We arrested three people who are involved in the case, but they are not the ones who poured acid on the victim,” he said.
 “We are detaining them at the police station for questioning, but we have not yet set a date to send them to court.”
  Police believe the garment worker was attacked because of her relationship with another woman’s husband.
  According to the complaint filed by Ms. Sreyla, she had been in a relationship with the woman’s husband for three years and commune police officials had been called multiple times to stop the relationship by the man’s wife.
  Surprisingly, they heeded the calls and did try to end the relationship, making both Ms. Sreyla and the woman’s husband promise not to see each other again.
  But they continued to see each other and continued an intimate relationship.
  “Intentional killing” with acid in Cambodia is punishable with up to 30 years in prison.
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