South Korea overturns the 60-year-old conviction of elderly woman who was jailed for biting an alleged attacker’s tongue

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Crime Asia South Korea See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Seoul, South Korea  —  A South Korean court has overturned the 60-year-old conviction of an elderly woman who was jailed as a teenager for biting the tongue of an alleged sexual assaulter, ending a long fight for justice that has rallied support from women nationwide. Choi Mal-ja, now 79, alleged she had been sexually assaulted as an 18-year-old in 1964, by a man asking for directions in the coastal city of

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