5-minute testicle crush by estranged wife kills Vietnamese man
One of the tactics taught women when caught in a situation where they are in danger of being sexually assaulted is to kick a man’s groin. The pain it causes is usually strong enough to allow the woman to fight back or escape.
When a 55-year-old Vietnamese woman got into a fight last week with her estranged husband, crushing his testicles for five minutes caused 53-year-old Le Kim Khai to die, reports the New York Daily News. However, the official autopsy report says the man died of tracheal effusion with food stuck in his windpipe, reports Tuoi Tre News.
The fight was triggered by Khai arriving on Sunday in Tien Giang, the province of his wife Phan Ti Kim Chuong. He got angry because there were locks on the wife’s house which prevented him from entering.
Khai destroyed the lock with a handsaw, entered the house and hit his estranged wife. Two of their daughters witnessed the beating and one tried to break the argument, but Khai also hit the daughter also.
It was at this point that Chuong made a vise-like grip on his balls and then called the police. While doing so, she still held on to his testicles but was convinced to let go by the neighbours. When she did, Khai was already unconscious.
The wife says she did not intend to kill Khai, only to warn him. He was rushed to the hospital but died on the way. He had a history of physically abusing Chuong.
Losing consciousness when one’s scrotum is squeezed is a vasovagal syncope response. New York University assistant professor of Urology at the Langone Medical Center, Dr Lee Zhao, explains the pain during testicle squeezing is so intense enough to make a man faint, reports Vice.com
Such was what happened in 2014 to a Dublin teen who went into cardiac arrest and was later placed in a medically induced coma after his testicles were squeezed by a classmate as a schoolyard prank that went awry. But vasovagal syncope response could also be triggered by standing up too fast, stress, lack of sleep, dehydration and hunger, not just a hit on the family jewels.
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