A young woman in Soc Trang Province is calling for help after being allegedly badly treated by her Chinese husband and his family.
Chairman of Ho Dac Kien Commune People’s Committee, Nguyen Van My confirmed on August 2 that they have received a letter from Lam’s family calling for help to take her daughter home from China.
According to Lam, her 22-year-old daughter Nguyen Thi Linh got married to a Chinese man named Dong Shi Wei in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province in late 2017 through an introduction from a local matchmaker.
Lam wants to help her daughter return home
“We usually chat with Linh via Zalo and she often complains about being beaten by his 25-year-old husband and his family’s members in China,” the mother said.
“Some days ago she said she wanted to return to Vietnam as she could not bear the life there anymore. She is now pregnant but her husband is still beating her and keeping her indoors all the time.”
The mother said that her daughter had attempted to commit suicide and so now the family are trying their best to take her home.
“We have contacted the matchmaker for help but she was angry with us,” the mother said. “She asked us to pay a compensation of VND400 million (USD17,632) in order to get Linh home and we are having difficulties gathering the money.”
Lam said that the matchmaker had given her VND55 million (USD2,425) before taking her daughter to China.
“And now she asked us to pay the compensation,” the mother said. “We are very poor and have put our house on sale to have the money.”
Chairman of the women’s association in Ho Dac Kien Commune, Tran Thi Thu Suong said that she and some other officials in the commune had come to Lam’s family to discuss the case.
“Last year Linh came to us to ask for a paper recognising her single marital status so that she could get married,” Suong said. “She registered her marriage in China. We’ll try to assist her with necessary legal procedures so that she can return Vietnam.”
Source: Dtinews