Despite being sent to a re-education centre, she was arrested again, this time when she was 13, and the baby-faced criminal has since been held in Prey Sar Prison for the last eight months.
And it is her age that has resulted in her drug-trafficking trial being postponed - her lawyers claiming that she has been detained in prison illegally.
They argue that the age of criminal responsibility is 14 and so she should not have to face charges.
cambodia drug1.jpg">Seng Live, Reaksmey`s mother, told the court that despite telling police her daughter was 13, they recorded her arrest under the name of her sister, who was 20 years old.
`This child is under 14 and she cannot be detained,` the girl`s lawyer Ouk Vandeth told the court in Phnom Penh.
`I cannot say why the police put her at 20 years of age. She is too young to be 20 - she still plays with rubber bands.`
The Phnom Penh Post reported the child`s mother as saying that she was first arrested when she was 12, along with her father, on similar drug trafficking charges. After this she was sent to a re-education centre for several months.
Mr Billy Gorter, executive director at juvenile rehabilitatiion organisation This Life Cambodia, told the paper that if Reaksmey was under the age of criminal responsibility at the time of her arrest, there must have been a `grave oversight at multiple levels`.
He added: `Cambodian children are often held in pre-trial detention, where they wait months to have their cases heard. Once sentenced, there is no pathway for a young person to demonstrate their rehabilitation.`
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