OK, this story is just so messed up. I'm assuming they're defining virginity as never having put a penis in a vagina. Even if there were any validity to this person's bizarre virginity testing method (and, uh, there is not), there are many other ways to commit sexual assault by gang rape. Blech. Every part of this story is upsetting. Bolding is mine:
HANOI, Vietnam — An acupuncturist who claims she can detect a man's virginity based on a small dot on the ear has become a minor celebrity in Vietnam, where she is credited with helping to free three convicted rapists from prison.
Traditional medicine practitioner Pham Thi Hong started lobbying for the men's release, pleading their case all the way to the president, because she believes all three men are virgins and therefore could not be guilty of rape.
"They all had small red spots on the back of their ears," said Hong, 54. "The spots should have disappeared if they had had sex. My many years of experience told me that these men did not have sex before."
Her claims are unusual even for a country where acupuncture and traditional medicine are still common remedies, but Hong's determination to have the case reopened — even threatening to light herself on fire — led to prosecutors re-examining the case. The convictions eventually were suspended due to flaws by initial investigators.
"Thanks to her efforts, investigators revisited the case which otherwise could have been buried," said Nong Thi Hong Ha, a lawyer for one of the freed men.
Hong says she discovered the spot on Nguyen Dinh Kien's ear the first time he visited her for treatment four years ago. He was brought to the hospital from prison, where he was serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted of gang raping a 20-year-old woman in 2000.
After seeing the spot on Kien's ear, Hong believed his insistence that he was innocent. She later examined his two alleged accomplices and began a campaign for their release. Eventually, President Nguyen Minh Triet ordered that the case be re-examined.
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this is kinda crazy. any idea what actually went on during the hearings - like, if there was evidence other than the 'dot' to back them up?
Wow, that is absolutely terrible. They should not have released those men for such a stupid reason! I am sure that there was actual evidence of their guilt, so why are they allowed to go free with this invalid testing method? Even if they were "virgins," they could have sexually assaulted her in other ways. This is not justice for that woman.
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