Phnom Penh Post - Addicted son too much of a handful for mother
Mother-son relations weren’t so heart warming in Phnom Penh’s Choam Chao commune on Saturday when police were called to remove an addict from his home.
Saying her offspring was using drugs and inciting violence, the matriarch asked for serious intervention when he started making death threats.
After coming to collect the troubled 25-year-old, officers brought him downtown for questioning and are pursuing legal action.
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