Heroin-Soaked Panties

(Shanghai, China) A 42-year-old woman, Wang Zhiqin, is facing charges that she transported heroin soaked into her panties. According to the China Daily, Wang had 1.44Kg of heroin in 15 items of underwear.

From TheAge.com.au:

Wang pleaded innocent during her trial at a Shanghai court, saying the tainted underwear had been planted in her luggage, a pink trunk, after two men in Kunming, capital of the southwestern Yunnan province, offered her a job and a plane ticket to Shanghai.

Her lawyer queried the investigating police's methods, who derived the quantity of heroin by weighing the drug-soaked underwear, the paper said.

"There is no evidence of the exact purity and quantity of the heroin, and there is no evidence proving Wang was aware of what she was carrying," the paper quoted the lawyer as saying.

I'm not buying that she didn't know what was in her underwear. After all, even babies know when something extra is in their diapers. Not only that, but Wang is 42 and not an irresponsible teenager who might lose track of her unmentionables.

Unfortunately, Wang's case is a capital offense and she's facing the death penalty, if convicted.

Linked to Stop The ACLU.