After more than seven years of captivity and torture at the hands of a local tycoon’s wife, two 17-year-old girls escaped from the tycoon’s mansion in Phnom Penh last week, police and NGO representatives said yesterday.

Anti-trafficking police found Song Kuthea and a girl identified only as Phally crying in front of the statue of Ta Dambong in Battambang town last Friday and took them in for questioning, said Thol Yuthea, an officer of Battambang’s anti-human trafficking bureau.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – February 28, 2013)