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

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 Busan. She only escaped by biting off 1.5cm (0.6 inch) of the man’s tongue – prompting him to sue her for grievous bodily harm. She counter-sued him for atte...

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