"Virginity Test" Freed Convicted Rapists in Vietnam

Acupuncturist Pham Thi Hong managed to free three convicted rapists with her Virginity Detectin'® method:

"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." [...]

She says she was first taught how to determine if a man has ever had sex by feeling their pulse. She later developed the ear-spot method on her own. She says the spot will only disappear after heterosexual intercourse and is not affected by gay sex or masturbation.

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Neatorama needs to have a way to flag a post as BS. I realize it's not a news site, but come one, they should have better standards than to allow posts like this, even if some newspapers don't. Read the article at the original link people. The so-called "virginity test" isn't actually what freed them. The acupuncturist in question just spent so much time yelling that they were innocent that the authorities reopened the case and found flaws in the original investigation. Maybe they were guilty, maybe they weren't, but painting the picture that they were released because of something as ridiculous as a "male viginity test" is just plain irresponsible.

Apparently, whoever posted this didn't actually read the whole article, or maybe just didn't think the truth was very interesting, so he/she just took out the most ridiculous bits and left us to draw incorrect conclusions from it.
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James, it's called a teaser. Any intelligent person will know to read the whole story to get, well, the whole story.

The fact that the case was reopened because of this crackpot is still interesting and I don't see how catching readers' attention with the silly part of the story is in any way "irresponsible" when the original article is linked to.
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