SINGAPORE: A Vietnamese teenager has demanded the government intervene after her future husband sent her back to her family after they claimed she had starred in an adult film, local media reported on Friday. Nguyen Dang Xuan Thuy, 19, said she was not the star of the video circulated online that caused Nguyen Phuc Duy, 27, to call off the marriage, newspaper Thanh Nien said. The groom sent her home weeks after their wedding in February 2011, saying she was not a virgin. When Nguyen Phuc Duy, 27, considering his first marriage void, went ahead and married again last month, Thuy's family approached the local authorities to clear her name. Police said the girl in the video she supposedly resembled was not Vietnamese and that the film was made abroad. The local People's Committee withdrew Duy's second wedding certificate, but the new couple still went ahead with the celebration. Vietnamese women are angered over the situation, saying that the girl should have had been treatment from her husband and the video is not compelling evidence to end the marriage. “It is as if we are going backwards in this country,” said Pham Po Nhem, a Hanoi-based women's rights advocate who runs a battered women's shelter. She told Bikyamasr.com that “too often I see young women struggle to get where they are supposed to be because of traditional beliefs. My question in this case is how did the family find out about this video in the first place? It is obvious that the family and the husband were not in the right and the girl now suffers.” She added that the young girl is now “tainted” by the accusations and “unfortunately, it won't matter if she was not the woman in the video in the first place because they have left her honor in jeopardy.” BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/K0MQd Tags: Bride, Marriage, Sex Tape, Vietnam Section: East Asia, Latest News, Women
