Spot on the Ear Means Freedom for Rapists in Vietnam

“The spots should have disappeared if they had had sex.” This is a statement by an acupuncturist that sealed the release of three convicted rapists in Vietnam. Pham Thi Hong declared the men imprisoned for rape were virgins because they had specific spots on their ears. She claims that since the spots remain, the men could not have possibly committed the rape. These absurd statements actually freed these men in Vietnam, one of the convicted man’s lawyers stated, "Thanks to her efforts, investigators revisited the case which otherwise could have been buried.” His client was imprisoned for gang raping a 20 year old woman in 2000. Hong even threatened to light herself on fire in attempts to reopen the case.

What frightens me is that this completely non-scientific, nearly mythological “diagnosis” was actually taken seriously. Not only was it taken seriously – these convicted rapists were let out of prison! Is rape so unimportant that it can be pushed under the rug over a spot on a man’s ear? It’s obscene! Where is the justice for the 20 year old woman?

Of course, she must be a liar, There was a spot on a man’s ear, she is a liar!

It sickens me to know this sort of thing is happening right now in our world – dangerous men are being treated as innocent victims. What else is astonishingly horrific is that the key to their freedom was held by a woman.