Fr. Chan Tin, a Catholic Redemptorist priest in his fifties, had played the role of confessor often; it was part of his vocation. So he sat and listened as a young woman described how the guards at Thu Duc prison tortured her. They began by blindfolding her and asking her if she worked for the communists. They beat her with a night stick as she tried to respond, and the beating only increased when she said no, that she did not work for the communists. Unsatisfied with her responses, the guards then applied electric shock treatments to her armpits, breasts, and vagina. They were especially brutal on the days when she was menstruating. The woman believed the torture she endured in prison had caused her infertility.1