Vu Van Hao's sentence was reduced from 8 to 6 years after the court considered his efforts to compensate the victims' families and their plea for leniency.
Suspecting a 16-year-old boy had fallen prey to an "easy, high-paying job" scam while traveling alone to southern Vietnam, bus driver Ta Cong Luan stopped his vehicle and reported the situation to the Duc Pho Traffic Police Station.