PHNOM PENH, Dec 8, 2006 (AFP) - A 24-year-old Cambodian prostitute has been arrested for stabbing her client in the stomach after he refused to wear a condom, police said Friday.
The sex worker and Suon Da, 25, quarrelled over a condom at a brothel on Wednesday in Battambang province, 290 kilometers (180 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, police said, adding he had paid about one dollar for sex.
"The woman repeatedly asked the man to wear a condom, because she was trying to prevent herself from getting infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS," police official Korm Roeuy said.
She left a room after the man refused to wear a condom, but he chased her and slapped her several times to demand his money back, he said.
The prostitute then grabbed his pocket knife and stabbed his stomach. She was arrested a few hours later.
Cambodia has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, with 1.9 percent of the population of 13.8 million carrying the disease.
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