domestic assault

Pham Thi Thuy Dung, a 16 year girl in Viet Nam has set the internet abuzz in Vietnam when she decided to write about how a famous sports presenter for Vietnamese national television,VTV, Minh Tiep has constantly abuse her. The courage from Dung has now gained very high momentum as Vietnamese netizens have rallied round this girl who had boldly came out to let the world know the abuse she suffers from her brother-in-law.

According to the story posted by Dung, she wasn't the only one suffering from Minh, but Minh also beat his wife at different times whenever there is misunderstanding in their marriage. 

Dung said she had suffered violence and was beaten throughout her 6th grade year, and because her sister had suffered the same fate, she had no choice than to kneel down most times and cry her eyes out. Dung wrote in her long Facebook post that Minh had spied on her, though he was unsure of his tactics, but his major reason when he started beating her was because she had a crush on a school mate.

Minh according to  Dung would hit her on her thighs and legs so that the bruises would be hidden from her classmates, and neighbours. 

She wasn't only beaten because of a crush on some boys, Minh would hit her if she scores low marks at the school. 

Time To Say No

On Friday, which was the last day of the school year, 16 year old Dung hanged out with friends, and was tired from all the activities. She went home, and was in bed from 6pm - 11pm. When she got up, she knew it was late, and decided to take showers before Minh get back from his own hangout.

When Minh got home, he unfortunately met Dung still at the bathroom, and yelled at her saying " Hurry up you b****, what the f*** have you been doing all day to only take a bath now?" When Dung went of the bathroom, he murmured some words which seem to sound insulting to Minh, and he called her back to repeat the word that was murmured, she responded  “I said it already, if you didn’t hear it I wouldn’t say again”, while walking away, Minh Minh pulled her back with her hair, and his fingers pointing at her face “Repeat what you just said! You believe I can slap you to death?” and I said: “Do it, I dare you touch me”.

Minh landed a heavy slap on Dung, and throw her aside. This time, Dung believed she won't go down easily, and gathered all her 16 year old strength to hit Minh, but when she did hit him, he dislocated her joint immediately.

The VTV sports commentary staff went on to punch the 16 year old straight in the face, mouth. Dung then lashed out at him with verbal abuse while walking away, Minh followed her, and continue to beat her, targeting her legs, thigh and her back area. It took the strength of the wife and maid to rescue Dung from the grip of Minh.

Character Assassination

Dung believes the next line of action is to expose the abuse she had suffered with Minh, and she went on Facebook to detailed all the abuse and what happened to her. The post was shared and later went viral among netizens in Vietnam. 

With Minh personality in check, Dung, who had been staying with Minh and his sister was called back home to their house in Ninh Binh, a two hour journey by coach from Hanoi.

In Ninh Binh, Dung mobile phones, tablets were seized from her, and the family, together with Minh Tiep are looking to discredit Dung confession by saying she is schizophrenic, and had called her a "spoiled brat" and a girl that cheats in exams, rude to teachers and all round troublemaker.

                            Dung exam score as shared online

According to some students and teachers that had testified about the character of Dung, they have only showered her praises, and also from the school reports that have now been seen by our reporters in Vietnam, Dung is an excellent student with good grades.

Dung family, including her sister abroad have all come in support of Minh Tiep. The sister of Dung abroad said that Dung makes up stories, and he is a genius in making up stories like this.

Rumours

Rumour has it that Dung father, who also is a director of a central maternity hospital might be able to work out some patient report record that will show  that Dung is suffering from Schizophrenia, and thereby discrediting her story.

Currently a campaign to help Dung from her family has gained 43k people, while th maximum person needed to take action is 50,000.

Written by Trang "Michelle" Nguyen

Popular Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe marriage hits the rock after 7 years. According to reports and images posted to the internet, Lanre Gentry, the husband of Mercy Aigbe has suddenly turned to a boxer and turned Mercy to his punching bag after he started going out with a lady called Opemititi.

Mercy Aigbe took to instagram and wrote, "Say No to domestic violence", and the husband comment on the image writing, "say No to promiscuous women."

There is no concrete reporting from both parties, aside from reports flying around that adultery from one of the lovers is the switch that killed the seven years old marriage.

It was one of the most shocking news of 1993, that got men everywhere holding their breath as they read how Lorena Bobbitt cut off her then husband's penis, John Wayne Bobbitt off him, and later throw it in a nearby grassy field, a couple of miles from the house.

In a recent interview, John was able to reveal the gruesome detail of the attack. He explains that on the night of the incident, he was asleep in bed when Lorena cut off his penis, and he took him few moments to realize what had happened to him.

John said;

I didn't know she cut it off,She did it so fast and ran so fast — I thought maybe I saw a little bit of her in my peripheral running out the bedroom door. But I looked down and there was blood everywhere. I applied pressure — I get up and try to put my pants on, and tried to get to the hospital as fast as I could.

Not able to drive, John called up a friend,Robby, who was deep asleep in their home, but not knowing what had happened, Tired Robby went to the bathroom first to try to brush his teeth, until he saw blood everywhere. John in his interview said;

I had to go get my friend up to drive me to the hospital. 'Come on, Robby! Get up — you gotta take me to the hospital. My wife cut me. He's incoherent, too — he was just like I was, so tired.

He gets up and goes to the bathroom and brushes his teeth, and he looks in the mirror and saw the blood everywhere. We flew to the hospital — we got there within 10 minutes.

In the legal battle between the former couple, Lorena claimed that John was physically and sexually abusive, slept around and took up drugs and alcohol. She said she soon suffered from battered woman’s syndrome from the treatment.

And on the night of the attack, Lorena also claimed that John had assaulted her sexually, and claimed this provoked the attack, though John claimed the couple had had consensual sex, he was tried for sexual assault and acquitted on the charge.

The couple divorced in 1995.

John penis was reattached, and was sexually active after his treatment. He later acted in some adult movies, and also made television appearances.

Lorena kept a low profile after the incident, and changed now use her maiden name. She also remarries, and started a non-profit organisation that helps women of domestic violence.

While on Steve Harvey show, Lorena also talked about what happened on that night;

I found myself in the street with a penis in one hand and the knife in the other. So yeah, that happens ... I’m here to tell you and to tell everyone what happens when a woman gets abused by a man.

We understand that my story actually has humour, but we also shed light on domestic violence, as well.

Watch the video here;

A viral video in Vietnam is of a westerner in Vietnam who stood up for a victim of domestic violence in Vietnam. According to the video that was shared on Facebook, showed different young ladies appreciating the effort of the man in standing up for the lady who seems to be crying in the video.

The man had parked his motorbike and teased the husband of the woman as a strong man for hitting his wife. The husband approached the westerner and asked him to leave the scene of the fight, but he refused. While the foreigner was waiting around, the husband went back to continue hitting the wife, a move that angers the foreigner and stopped him, and later put him in a light choke. 

The man seeing he can't continue his act ask the foreigner to leave, and on-lookers at the scene who had no power stopping the husband also asked him to leave, and not to cause a scene, causing us to ask a question if the issue of domestic violence is rampant in Vietnam.

Watch the video of the man here: