The prosecutor’s office in Vung Tau City yesterday prosecuted 33-year-old Nguyen Thi Anh, a local woman, for forcing a female employee to have centipedes tattooed on her face and bosom as a warning for the latter’s alleged affair with the former’s husband.
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Anh, aka Tram Anh, who owns the Mo Neo café in the city, will be detained for two months on charges of “humiliating others,” pending a trial, said city police.
The police also arrested and indicted Nguyen Thi Huong, 21, a native of Nghe An Province who is an attendant at the café, for the same offense.
In early December 2011, 20-year-old Nguyen Thuy Ngoc, of Nghe An Province’s Nghi Loc District, told police that Tram Anh shaved her head and forced her to have a centipede tattooed on her face, and two others on her chest, after Tram Anh suspected that Ngoc had had an affair with her husband, Pham The Phong, 35.
After a month of investigation, the police recently concluded that Tram Anh and Huong were guilty of humiliating the girl.
Ngoc said she had worked for Tram Anh at her cell phone and SIM card shop at 3 Le Quang Dinh Street in Thang Nhat Ward since April 2008. Ngoc initially worked as a shop assistant, but Tram Anh later opened a café and forced her to work at the café.
“On November 26, when I was working in the café, Tram Anh came over to me and beat me. She asked me why I had had an affair with her husband. I rejected her allegation, and Tram Anh threatened to splash acid onto my face,” Ngoc said.
Vung Tau police officers arrested Tram Anh (L) and Nguyen Thi Huong (Photo: Tien Phong)
Nguyen Thuy Ngoc with three tattoos on her face and bosom (Photo: Dan Tri)
Ngoc wears a wig to hide a tattoo on her face when she tell her story to press reporters (Photo: Xa Luan)
The next day, Tram Anh continued beating the girl, before insulting her and then shaving her head.
The following day, Huong, another attendant at the café, told Ngoc that Tram Anh had ordered that Ngoc choose one of two punishments: having three centipedes tattooed on her face and bosom, or having acid splashed onto her face.
Ngoc had no other choice but to choose the tattoos, after which Tram Anh ordered Huong to take Ngoc to a tattoo shop in Ward 2, and said she could go home after the tattooing was complete.
Ngoc returned to Nghe An on November 28 and recounted her treatment to her mother, Tran Thi Hoa, who later reported the events to police in both Nghe An and Vung Tau.
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