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This is a new one for the justice system, and apparently for Vietnam. Three convicted rapists in Hanoi, Vietnam have been freed based upon their looks. A female acupuncturist Pham Thi Hong is becoming a local celebrity in Vietnam because she is praised with getting the men released. She claims that the men are 100% innocent because of a red dot on their ear’s. She believes that if they were to have had sex; the dot would have disappeared. The men were tried and convicted of gang raping a 20 year old woman in 2000. She claims she first saw the dot on one of the men in a Hanoi prison while giving him acupuncture, and decided to look at the 2 other men. Upon her finding the other men had the same red dot, she started advocating for their release; even threatening to set herself ablaze. The President of Vietnam finally demanded that the case be re-opened, and during the new investigation investigators found that the initial investigators made mistakes. So because of an acupuncturist who spotted a red “virgin” dot on the ears of the men, they have since been freed. We have the saying only in Vegas, but in this instance it’s, only in Vietnam. thanks to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38051788/ added by: Colin_McCabe