Hanoi: Vietnamese cops took three months to respond seriously to allegations that an eight-year-old girl had been molested, but then outrage spilled onto Facebook and they made an arrest in days – a rare win for public opinion in the communist country.
The girl was sexually abused by a family friend near her aunt’s house in Hanoi in January, but the complaint by her enraged mother fell on deaf ears.
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