A man whose father divorced so he could marry his stepmother took his own life after villagers and neighbours teased him mercilessly, police said on Monday.
Seng Yon (22) fell in love with his father’s second wife and far from being angry, Veang Van (42) divorced his wife so his son could marry her, police said.
But villagers would not leave the couple in peace and Seng Yon drank poison on Sunday night when he could no longer tolerate their taunts, according to Dang Toung district penal police chief Kong Sakhon, from Kampot province, 150km south of the capital.
”Seng Yon committed suicide because he felt ashamed of the villagers’ severe teasing,” said Kong Sakhon.
”They always repeated his story mouth by mouth every day around the village about his marrying a 33-year-old woman, Luy Lot, who is his father’s second wife. They kept asking how this could happen and why wasn’t he ashamed?”
Khmer-language newspaper Koh Santepheap said on Monday that the father had shown incredible generosity in sacrificing his marriage to his son.
”His father was not angry with his son and step wife. Instead, the generous hearted father agreed to sacrifice his wife to his son and married his wife to his son because the problem had already occurred and he did not want to have dispute in the family,” the newspaper said. – Sapa-DPA