AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - American student alleges rape in Vietnam, says police and suspect's family pressured her to stay silent
A 24-year-old American student from Houston says she was sexually assaulted during a group holiday in Vietnam, and that local police and the suspect's wealthy family tried to push her into settling quietly. Vietnamese authorities have now charged a 23-year-old man with rape after Nguyen Thi Quynh Tam refused to back down, rejected repeated offers […] The post American student alleges rape in Vietnam, says police and suspect's family pressured her to stay silent appeared first on American Almanac .
A 24-year-old American student from Houston says she was sexually assaulted during a group holiday in Vietnam, and that local police and the suspect's wealthy family tried to push her into settling quietly. Vietnamese authorities have now charged a 23-year-old man with rape after Nguyen Thi Quynh Tam refused to back down, rejected repeated offers of money, and fought through weeks of institutional resistance to get her case on the record. The charge came only after Tam's father reached out to the office of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, prompting belated action from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Tam, whose family moved to the United States when she was five, had returned to Vietnam in May for a banking internship. On July 4, she joined a group of…Open