Acupuncturist pricks holes in rape conviction

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http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article466250.ece/Acupuncturist-pricks-holes-in-rape-conviction

La Ngoc Tinh said the case was reopened at the request of Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet, after traditional medicine specialists said the men could not be rapists because they had never had sex.

The men were convicted in 2002 of raping an 18-year-old woman in Hanoi, and sentenced to 11 to 16 years in prison.

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She said examination of a pressure point beneath the convict's ear showed a small capillary was unbroken, which Vietnamese traditional medicine holds to mean that he was a virgin. Hong then examined the other two men.

"I recognised these three men had never had sex with women," Hong said.
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Alan, yeah, that's where I heard it from...

According to the article, the "re-examination of evidence" focused on the model of the knife and the necklace of one of the rapists. They say that the girl's description was not accurate...why am I not surprised that her memory of those details might not be the most accurate when three guys are raping her. Anyways, if this source is reliable, it's tragic that they gave any weight at all to the acupuncturists diagnosis, I hope this is not the last we hear from the case.
 
Rape usually involves splashing abit of dna around, have they not heard of dna evidence.
 
Marduk said:
Then guilty or not that doesn't seem sufficient for a convinction unless there was other more solid evidence.
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I would be amazed if they convicted three guys to jail for 11-16 years on the basis of her description of a knife and a necklace :boggled:
 
sts75 said:
Rape usually involves splashing abit of dna around, have they not heard of dna evidence.
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Well, they had the acupuncturist poke the bits of DNA with a needle, but results were inconclusive.
 
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