The "stormy" life of a mother whose 2 children were kidnapped in Ho Chi Minh City

"In the past few days, many people suspect that my daughter was sold because she was in need of money, not kidnapped. Hearing that, I feel heartbroken," the grandmother of the two missing girls told reporters.

On the evening of April 8, many people in Ho Chi Minh City and on social media platforms were overjoyed to hear that Ms. Nguyen Thi Chi (born in 1997, from Phu Yen) had reunited with her two children who were kidnapped while selling goods on Nguyen Hue walking street (District 1).

Joy burst

According to Dan Tri reporter, the place where Chi and her five children live is a rented room deep in an alley on Tran Xuan Soan Street, Tan Hung Ward, District 7.

When the reporter arrived, neighbors were also there to congratulate Chi and her mother.

Chi with her mother and children in a rented room on Tran Xuan Soan Street (Photo: An Huy).

After 7pm, the shabby rented room of over 10 square meters of the 27-year-old woman and her child was sweltering hot, everyone was sweating.

The mother held her 3-year-old daughter, who was sobbing, in her arms and said that the child was still very scared. Every time she heard the word "kidnapping", the child burst into tears. From the time she received her daughter from the police station until she returned home, the child clung to her mother.

At around 2pm the same day, Ms. Chi suddenly received a phone call from a police officer informing her that her two children had been found. She immediately went to the headquarters to see her children, overwhelmed with joy when she learned that their health was stable.

She had never felt as happy as she did at that moment. During the 5 days of wandering everywhere looking for her 2 children, there were times when she thought she had lost them forever. She suspected that someone had secretly kidnapped her 2 children to sell.

At times like these, she could only burst into tears in despair. "My life is facing many difficulties, my assets are only 4 children. Finding 2 children makes me happy, thank God. No matter how life pushes me, my children and I will always have each other. My children are the motivation for me to try to work hard every day," the mother happily said.

Ms. Chi said that for more than 2 years, she has been both mother and father of 4 children. Life in the city is expensive, to make ends meet, every day the mother and her 5 children take the bus from District 7 to Nguyen Hue walking street (District 1) to sell candy to customers until evening before returning home to rest. The income is unstable, about 200,000 VND per day, not enough to feed the children and pay off some debts.

Mrs. B. with her 8-month-old grandchild (Photo: An Huy).

She always wished that one day she would have a lot of money so that her four children could go to school with their friends, and not have to wander the streets with their mother day after day, full of hardship and danger.

"I love my children so much. I don't want them to be illiterate and to be bullied like their mother when they grow up. But what can I do now, when my life is still at a standstill?

The first child is 10 years old, the second is 7 years old, the two children are 3 years old and 8 months old. When I gave birth to the youngest child, I didn't have a single penny in my pocket. I went to borrow money but no one gave me any, so I had to close my eyes and borrow money to pay the hospital fees. Until now, the debt of several tens of millions of dong has been clinging to the 5 of us, and we can't pay it all off," Chi said, sobbing.

While talking, many times Chi wanted to cry when thinking about her miserable fate.

After 7:30 p.m., the mother and her three children quickly took a taxi back to District 1 Police Headquarters after receiving a call from a police officer. "The officers said they would take DNA samples to investigate whether the two children were mine," Chi said, then quickly carried the children away.

The ill-fated life of a mother

For the past 4 days, after hearing that her two grandchildren had gone missing while selling goods on Nguyen Hue walking street with her daughter, Ms. B. (63 years old) put aside her job selling lottery tickets and went to Ms. Chi's rented room to take care of her two grandchildren.

"I keep the two children so Chi has time to go here and there looking for her children day and night. My daughter's life is already miserable, and mine is not much better off either," Mrs. B. told reporters.

Mrs. B. looked at the fan with sad eyes and began to tell the story of her youngest daughter, "a beautiful but ill-fated", in a sad voice.

More than 10 years ago, Chi, a high school student in her hometown, suddenly started showing strange signs. Her mother noticed that her daughter often vomited at smelly food, while her belly gradually grew bigger. She checked and found out that Chi had accidentally had an affair with a guy a few years older than her and became pregnant.

Ms. Chi prepared to take her child back to the police station that evening (Photo: An Huy).

The family gritted their teeth and accepted Chi's decision to drop out of school and get married at an age when she was "not yet full and not yet worried". When her first child was 2 years old, Chi was pregnant with her second child. All living expenses, child care, and grandchild care were taken care of by Mrs. B.

Ironically, Chi's husband was working in the Central Highlands at the time. This man was not interested in business but secretly had an affair with another woman and had an "illegitimate child". When Ms. B's daughter found out, she and her husband agreed to divorce.

"He was afraid to go back to his hometown to complete divorce procedures because he didn't want to take responsibility for raising the children. Only when Chi said she would raise the two children herself did he agree to complete the procedures," said Ms. B.

The grandmother of four children continued, because of being too sad about her love life, 4 years ago, Chi took her two children to Ho Chi Minh City to start a business, hoping for a bright future in the promised land.

During this time, Chi continued to date a young man from the same hometown. After a period of getting to know each other, the two got married and continued to stay in Ho Chi Minh City to make a living. A year later, Chi gave birth to her third daughter.

When Chi was pregnant with their fourth daughter, the couple had a conflict. Chi's husband also left his wife and young children and returned to his hometown to live there until now. While pregnant, Chi took her three children to Nguyen Hue walking street to sell candy to make a living.

When the day of her birth was near, because she had no money, Chi took a risk and borrowed more than 10 million VND to take care of her child, which she has not yet paid back. "My daughter borrowed 10 million VND but has to pay nearly 300,000 VND in interest every day, the principal is still the same. Knowing that my daughter is in debt, I feel so upset and don't know what to do, while she has 4 other children," said Mrs. B.

The 63-year-old grandmother said her situation was not much better after her husband died early. A few years ago, she had an accident and broke two vertebrae in her back, and the treatment cost more than 300 million VND.

Life was so desperate that she had to sell all her rice fields in the countryside within 5 years to get a few tens of millions of dong to pay the hospital fees at Cho Ray Hospital. To this day, she still owes money to some people that she has not paid off. Now, every day, she walks around the streets of District 11 selling lottery tickets to make a living.

"I also want to go back to District 7 to live with my daughter, but this area has a lot of workers, few people buy lottery tickets, so I rented a room in District 11. In the past few days, many people suspect that my daughter is short of money and is selling her, not kidnapping her. Hearing that makes me heartbroken.

I believe that my daughter, even though she is poor, would never do such a terrible thing. They said my daughter was a child herder. Now that her situation is so difficult, if she doesn't take her children with her, who will take care of them?", Mrs. B. said, adding that she was very happy that her two grandchildren returned home safely.

In the near future, she will discuss bringing her daughter and four grandchildren back to her hometown to find a living.

Previously, on the evening of April 3, Ms. Chi and her four children went to Nguyen Hue walking street, District 1, to sell goods. When she reached Dong Khoi street, she went to give money to an acquaintance about 100 meters away.

After returning, Ms. Chi was shocked and did not see her two children anywhere, so she went to the police station to report.

During the investigation, authorities determined that at the time of the incident, a woman led two children away from the area.

On April 8, using professional measures, the police discovered that two girls were being led by a woman named Pham Huynh Nhat Vi (21 years old) to the Saigon Pearl apartment building (Ward 22, Binh Thanh District), so they raided and arrested them. The two girls were handed over to their families by the police that same afternoon.

According to Dan Tri

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