Remember that story, "Kept in Stitches", about the wicked step mother who forced her stepson to sew his own mouth shut? Well here's an update from Reuters...
A Vietnamese court sentenced a couple to jail for mistreating a 10-year-old boy in a notorious case in which the woman forced the boy, her stepson, to stitch up his mouth as punishment for stealing less than two cents.
Friday's state-run Saigon Giai Phong (Liberation Saigon) newspaper said Phan Thi Hien, 31, was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison. Her husband, Nguyen Viet Honh, was sentenced to 12 months in prison. The two were prosecuted by a court in Bac Ninh province, east of Hanoi, after Hien punished the boy last month for stealing 200 dong (1.3 cents) by forcing him to stitch up his mouth with a needle and thread.
I guess she found out that this ain't no fairy tale... if it was, a dragon would have eaten her by now...