Mr Ang Vong Vathana
Minister of Justice
Samdech Sothearos Road
Sangkat Chaktomouk
Daun Penh
28th Feb 2016
Dear Mr Ang Vong Vathana
re Wu
Chia Hsun
During my visits to Mr David Fletcher in PJ prison I
have met a young woman by the name of Wu Chia Hsun. She has been in jail since
2007, since she was 16, for trafficking
drugs.
Wu Chia Hsun was very
young, very naive and acting on the orders of her father when she smuggled the
drugs back in 2007.
In January this year she wrote a letter to the King
but could not have it delivered to his office as she did not have the money to
make the payment requested by those who were in a position to deliver it. Please
read Wu Chia Hsun’s letter:
Dear respected and kind
King
My name is Wu Chia Hsun. I
come from Taiwan. I was born in 1991, May 3rd. I’m 25 years old. Im
in PJ prison. My parents separated when I was 6 years old, and I moved to live
with my granny in th4e country side.
My case number is 2093. My
case is international drug trafficking. The date I was imprisoned was 2007,
December 7th. The court sentenced me to 12 years. I was only 16
years old when I entered prison. I’ve been inside the prison for 8 years and
one month without any family visits. And my sentence was reduced by 9 months
during the Water Festival of year 2015. Now I still have 3 years and 2 months.
I’ve already served 2/3 of my sentence.
Dear respected and kind
King, I apologise for what I did! It’s a big mistake! I’m really sorry! I was
too young. I was just trying to help my family. My family is very poor, and
I’ve a bad father. He had a lot of credit money. But if I had known the severity and serious
consequences of what I was asked to do, I would not have done it. I was
beknighted to believe a bad person. Because of my innocence I was incapable of
accomplishing my own studies. I missed my important younger years and the
destruction of my innocence.
Dear benevolent King,
please forgive me, and please forgive my rudeness in requesting your help.
Please help me be reunited earlier with my family and be obedient to my old
granny and mammy. Please, I don’t have money for communication pardon I’m
helpless. I feel helpless. I’m suffering here. I miss my family so much! I
really want to go home! Please, I beg you dear respected and kind King. I
promise I’ll always be a good girl. And I’ll always keep a kind heart! Thank
you very much! I’m really appreciate your help.
From your truly and little
poor girl
2016 January 21st
If you were to send a representative of your Ministry
to PJ prison, Mr Ang Vong Vathana , to speak with Wu Chia Hsun
she (or he) would find that despite her now being 25 she is still the same very
innocent girl who was doing as she was told by her
father – in an attempt to pay off her father’s debts and lift her family out of
extreme poverty. Some discrete
questioning about the circumstances surrounding Wu Chia Hsun
agreeing to her father’s demand that she smuggle drugs would reveal information
that she does not want to divulge in public. Shew does not wish to bring shame
on her family. This information would go some way to explaining why she felt
compelled to obey her father’s demand that she smuggle the drugs.
Yes, Wu Chia Hsun committed
a crime in 2007 but is there any purpose to be served in keeping her in jail
any longer? I believe, if someone from your ministry spoke with her, that they
would realize she is not a criminal but merely a young girl who made a mistake
and that she deserves to be released and allowed to re-start her life.
Yours sincerely
James Ricketson
I sincerely hope that they can read your letter, visit her in prison and do the right thing. More of your good work James. I hope they can use some sence in sentencing!
ReplyDeleteIf you can't do the time don't do the crime. Fuck her
ReplyDeleteThey say no cause is truly lost until James Ricketson champions it. The poor girl is now assured of serving her full sentence.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Anon 3.52, Ricketsons a cunt. She hasnpt got a snowflakes now of gettin gout
DeleteHa ha! Rickets a lost cause and everything he touches is a lost cause. Go off and fucking die you loser
DeleteDear Anonymous 2.02
DeleteWhat a kind and compassionate person you are! How lucky Cambodia is to have a person of your caliber working here as an NGO or whatever it is you do.
Dear Anonymous 3.52
DeleteDuring the 7 years she had been in jail not one person or organisation has advocated on her behalf. I met Wu Chia Hsun by chance and have made a very small gesture towards helping her. There is nothing more that I can do but at least I have done something.
And why do you think she will serve her full sentence because I wrote a letter to the Minister? You really think I have that kind of influence on the Ministry of Justice?
seriously rickets, I know the girl. she is too naive to realize that you destroy everything you touch and she is pinning her hopes on you because she doesnt know any better. leave her be and find another person to inspire your insipid blog posts. there is an american in PJ convicted of statutory rape go champion for him.
ReplyDeleteMr Morrish
DeleteYou are a liar. I work for the American Embassy. There is no American in PJ prison convicted of statutory rape. There is however an American serving an 18 month jail sentence for killing a Khmer man who attempted to rape his 11 year old daughter.
If you know the girl your name is Steve Morrish. If you are lying in saying that you know the girl you are just a member of Team Neeson slinging mud.
ReplyDeleteSo, if you know the girl let me ask you a question or two. Do you believe that any good purpose is served by keeping her in jail? If your answer is 'no' let me ask you if you have done anything at all to help secure her release?
Dear Anonymous 4.14 and 4.50
ReplyDeleteI suspect that both these comments were written by the same person - a rather unpleasant human being incapable of rational discussion and not even all that proficient at the hurling of insults.
steve Morrish is not the only person in the world with access to PJ, I have been there hundreds of times over the years and have visited with numerous people. what you fail to understand is that the rule of law is not subjective. it stands as it is because what will keep the next girl from using the same excuse? there is zero evidence to back up her claims, so whether true or not it would be inappropriate for any court to release her early. whats the difference between her and the aussie mother who got banged up for smuggling heroin? anyone who gets caught makes up every excuse possible why they are innocent, yet they never have any evidence, only inadmissible hearsay which seems to be your only source of information. what is to be served by keeping her in prison is a detterrent to anyone else who may think of smuggling narcotics in the future. the drugs she smuggled ruined peoples lives, same as the oz mom, everyone enjoys the benefits of their crime but not the punishments.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous 6.10
DeleteIf you are not Steve Morrish, who are you? Why do you feel the need to remain anonymous?
If you have been to PJ hundreds of times and have visited numerous people you know how the system works. I have only been a few dozen times but one only needs to go a few times to realize that the administration of justice in Cambodia is almost entirely subjective. If you have money you can get yourself out of jail. If you don't have money you can't. If you have money you can get someone else put in jail of fabricated charges. You know this.
I have been told that I would have to pay 'big money' to get David Fletcher out. I spoke with someone the other day who was told that he would have to pay a lot of money for an early release. Another prisoner I have spoken with said that she was told she would have to pay $250,000 to be released. She is non-Cambodian and the presumption is that she must be rich (or her family is rich) and so can pay. He co-accused (same crime) is Khmer and has been told that she must only pay $100,000 to secure her release. And so it goes. And you know it, so don't talk about the legal system as though it operates in accordance with the law. Even to get a letter through to the King’s office costs money. You know this. To get a letter placed on the minister’s desk costs money. You know this.
Wu Chia Hsun was 16 when she committed her crime. She was just a child. Yes, she made a mistake but if you were to talk with her (and it is clear that you have not) and heard more of her story, you might, perhaps, be a little more compassionate. And if you were to talk with her and realize how young she is, despite being 25, you would appreciate just how young and innocent she was when she did her father’s bidding.
As for drugs ruining people's lives, what about alcohol? Alcohol destroys more people's lives than all the other drugs put together. Drug abuse and alcohol abuse are both health issues that need to be addressed as such. The last 50 years of the 'war on drugs' has had zero impact on the problem of drug abuse and yet you, and so many others, still talk about the jailing of drug smugglers as a deterrent. It clearly is not. Illegal drugs makes criminals very rich and all those who benefit from the illegal earnings of these criminals. Keeping drugs illegal feeds and breeds corruption.
Rickets, as you will understand because you are an Aussie, you are a fucking wanker and a coward. You hide behind your fucking defaming everyone left right and centre because you are a bitter old man and a looser. Fuck you
DeleteYes, this was my first guess, too. Everything points to Steve Morrish ! His language hasn't changed..., he's still abusive as ever. His first quote :
DeleteAnonymousFebruary 29, 2016 at 2:02 AM
If you can't do the time don't do the crime. Fuck her
said it all. This is clearly ex-cop language. And who else has a desire to punish people wherever he turns up ?
STEVE MORRISH
presumably one of Cambodia's biggest western riffraff skunk.
Geez anon 1.09 am - pretty tough words coming from behind your computer screen. Im wondering - have you gone and fronted Steve and told him your views about him face to face?
DeleteDear Anonymous 7.24
DeleteI have just returned from a visit to the prison and can confirm that there is no American there charged with statutory rape. Regardless of who posted the comment it is simply untrue.
Well Ricketson - if what you say is true then its seems one of your cronies has written defaming material on your blog again and directed this at Steve. I just sent Steve a copy of the comments. Im not sure that he will be too impressed with them. Whether or not he does anything about it is up to him but its just another example of how you rubbish people with made up, false material, hoping that they will bite and give you more ammunition to continue your blog. I do pity you!
DeleteAnonymous 7.48
DeleteYou should try to think before opening your mouth, or committing yourself to writing.
If Steve Morrish did not make the factually incorrect comment about the American in PJ prison for statutory rape, he is quite free to say so here and attach his name to it.
If Steve did make the comment then he is lying. There is no American in PJ prison on charges of statutory rape.
As for whether or not Steve is impressed, I could care little. And congratulations on sending Steve a copy of the comment. What a hero you are.
On the 'false material' point, name me one example of where I have placed 'false material' here on this blog. Or two examples. Or as many as you like. You won't do this because you, like all members of Team Neeson, have no interest at all in facts that can be disputed. You just want to make broad statements that have only one purpose - to shoot the messenger.
hahaha you are such a keyboard warrior Ricketson. I personally think that you have the spleen of an ant and the reason why you spend your days defaming people on a $2 blog is that you have serious personal and emotional issues that need addressing.
DeleteGood for you James for championing this girls cause, when you have all of these idiots that would do nothing!
ReplyDeleteSo in your view, we are idiots because we are against championing for a convicted drug dealer. That makes sense!
DeleteIf Ricketson had any credibility or was respected at all by any Government person in any country, then perhaps a letter from him to the Minister of Justice might carry some weight. But the fact is that Ricketson is considered a pest, a vexatious complainant and as soon as anyone sees any correspondence from him, it is treated with the contempt it deserves.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous 7.44
DeleteYou are right about one thing - I am considered a pest by those who do not like to have their dirty linen washed in public. Scott Neeson is one such person.
Before I started advocating on behalf of Mr Fletcher's right to a fair trial, there was no-one doing so and he would have died in jail. As a result of my advocacy he will now, at the very least, have a Supreme Court hearing. This was acquired, amongst other things, by writing several times to the Minister for Justice.
Draw your own conclusions
Once again you are wrong. Fletcher is not going to receive a Supreme Court hearing. His matter is finished. You continue to make up lies to suit your agenda Rickets.
DeleteDear Alan Lemon (aka Anonymous 9.39)
DeleteThere are two possible ways of looking at your statement here:
(1) You are unaware that Mr Fletcher has lodged all the papers and that he has a Supreme Court case number.
(2) You are aware of (1) but are actively engaged in seeing to it that the Supreme Court hearing is never scheduled.
This would be very convenient for both Scott Neeson and for Samleang Seila because the last thing that either of them wants is for Mr Fletcher to have a trial that is open to the public and the media. Both have a great deal to lose if evidence is presented to the court not only of Mr Fletcher's innocence but of the complicity of various individuals and NGOs in his pursuit, persecution and prosecution in a secret trial.
But let's just say you were right (and you are not) and the matter was finished, what does it say about you that you would deny a man (any man) a fair trial? Cambodia certainly seems to attract more than its fair share of the dregs of the 'developed' world - men who take delight in the suffering of others and who care not at all for justice.
yawn yawn - hopefully one day you will realise that justice has been served and Cambodian children are now safer because a predatory monster is behind bars.
DeleteI'm a female and I find it extremely creepy that Ricketson advocates for a child sex offender, that he visits very poor families with young children and now he has befriended a young girl in prison, who to Ricketsons own admission, is simple and very gullible. Are you a predator Ricketson who is attracted to young children and uneducated girls?
ReplyDelete@ Anon 10.58 And you don't find this photo of Neeson groping a teenage girl creepy?
DeleteI find that creepy as well.
DeleteDear 'female' (aka Anonymous 10.58)
DeleteThis reads very much like a comment from Rachel. If so, welcome back, Rachel. its been a while.
What is 'creepy' about anyone advocating for another persons right to a fair trial? Do you think that accused sex offenders, accused murderers, men or women accused of any crime at all are not entitled to a fair trial? How about the Khmer Rouge cadres? Are they entitled to have lawyers advocating on their behalf or would you find it 'creepy' that I or anyone else (like a lawyer) would advocate their right to a fair trial?
And why is it 'creepy' that I should be helping poor families out by the rubbish dump - families that include babies, grannies, a man in a wheelchair, mums, dads, teenage boys and girls etc. An entire community of people. And this is 'creepy'? Please explain why this is so?
As for the young woman in prison (25 years old) did I ever say she was 'simple'? Yes, she was very gullible to have agreed to help her father as she did but there were circumstances that she wishes to remain private that also spurred her decision-making. In any event, if I were the predator you are implying that I am, why would I chose a 25 year old women who is in prison and who will probably be there for the next three years?
So, the answer to your question is, "No, I am not a predator." You can believe me or not but if it is a matter of concern to you or anyone else do your research, ask around, file a complaint, start a blog, fire questions at me. This is all fine by me. I will answer your questions.
Firstly who is Rachel. Im not Rachel and I do not wish to disclose my names on this type of blog. Is Rachel your imaginary friend? I see a constant theme here Mr. Ricketosn where you assume the names of posters who are anonymous. Secondly, there is also another theme here on this blog - you think you are always correct, you think that what you say is gospel and if someone else's opinion is in contradiction to yours, then that other person is wrong. I would suggest that this behaviour is a classic example of manic character. You are so insecure, so socially inept, that you need this blog to allay your insecurities and self perpetuate your thoughts. Very sad indeed.
Deletehahaha rickets just got bitch slapped. Well said anon 3.54am but you have probably gone over the head of the rickets cronies so I will put it in basic language for them. Rickets is a social fucktard who thinks he is important but reality is that he is yesterdays news.
DeleteDear Anonymous female person (aka 3.54)
DeleteRachel was someone who used to comment quite a lot here. Her tone was similar to yours except that I can see, from this last comment of yours, that whilst Rachel and I disagreed about various things, we cold actually engage in a dialogue.
As for my always being correct please do me the courtesy of pointing out to me one, two or three instances you are referring to and I will address them. You will not do this because, like all members of Team Neeson (even if you are only an associate member) you like to make generalised statements that can't be challenged but never specific points that could be challenged or which could be the starting point of a dialogue. You could, for instance, write, "James, how are you so certain about such and such..." to which I would then be obliged to reply with the evidence I have, the facts that I have at my disposal. If you then challenge my facts, my evidence (as you should) I am then obliged to either concede that I was wrong or seek to demonstrate that I am right. This is called dialogue. Civilised dialogue. People in the real world actually engage in this quite a bit. On social media, however, people such as yourself and so many others, have no interest in dialogue.
Som here's a challenge for you. Pick an opinion of mine and let me know your alternative opinion. Challenge me intelligently and I'll reciprocate.
As for you psychological insights I think you have been reading too many 'self-help' books!
As for you, Anonymous 3.58, you have given a great deal away about yourself with your use of the expression 'bitch-slapped', as does your use of 'social fucktard' as a way of putting someone (in thei case me) in a pigeon hole.
Why on earth you keep coming back here with your comments s beyond me! Have you nothing better to do with your time? You are certainly letting the team down with your silly comments.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/filmmaker-‘guilty’-conflict-church
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/australian-church-reveals-it-is-behind-lawsuit-against-filmmaker-53433/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/pdfs_all/Abolitionist%20Lies%20Exposed/2014%20The%20Cambodia%20Daily%20%7C%20Filmmaker%20Charged%20with%20Hindering%20Anti-Prostitution%20Efforts.pdf
ReplyDeleteWhat does my battle with Citipointe church have to do with the subject in hand?
DeleteIf anyone is interested the whole story can be found at:
http://citipointechurch.blogspot.com
The Team Neeson member who posted this three times might like to answer the questions put to Scott Neeson and stop trying to shoot the messenger.
Scott hasn't been sued or convicted by a court in criminal matters. You have on several occasions. So it is very relevant because it goes towards who has more credibility.
DeleteDear Alan Lemon
DeleteI was convicted by the Phnom Penh court in absentia, with no opportunity to present a defence, for the non-existent crime of "threatening to dishonour Citipointe Church." This is the church that illegally removed children from their family and kept them for sex years contrary to the express wishes of the parents. In Australia, in any country in the world where the rule of law applied, Pastor Leigh Ramsey would have been charged with kidnapping. Even in Cambodia.
The relevant law, Alan, is as follows:
Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
Article 8:Definition of Unlawful Removal
The act of unlawful removal removal in this act shall mean to:
1) Remove a person from his/her current place of residence to a place under the actor’s or a third persons control by means of force, threat, deception, abuse of power, or enticement, or
2) Without legal authority or any other legal justification to do so to take a minor person under general custody or curatoship or legal custody away from the legal custody of the parents, care taker or guardian.
Article 9: Unlawful removal, inter alia, of Minor
A person who unlawfully removes a minor or a person under general custody or curatorship or legal custody shall be punished with imprisonment for 2 to 5 years.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7259345/Law-on-Suppression-of-Human-Trafficking-and-Sexual-Exploitation-15022008-English
Other than this,the last conviction I had was in 1971, after I was arrested for protesting against Apartheid in South Africa.
Just answer some questions, Alan, since Scott won't. You have as little credibility as he does but are, of course, a beneficiary of the various scams CCF is involved in - World Housing being the most glaringly obvious one.
Drivel from a person who is delusional and has a self perpetuating twist on all his comments. You have criminal convictions, you have been sued and you have been banned from various associations ungroups around the world. Scott hasn't had any of these. So twist away dickhead, your credibility is flawed.
DeleteShooting the messenger, Alan, Scott - whichever of you it is this time - only serves to highlight your persistent refusal to answer questions. It wouldn't matter how many convictions I have. The questions remain: "Why did you tell the world that you were giving $1 million in free housing to poor families when you were 'gifting' this million dollars to yourselves?" This is a major scam and you are both scoundrels of the first order
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