Seoul: A local court on Friday acquitted a 41-year-old woman who was accused of forcing her husband to have sex with her, the first case in the country for a wife to stand trial for raping her husband.

The court found the defendant, identified only by her surname Shim, not guilty of the charges, saying it is hard to say the sexual encounter was made against the will of the husband through violence or other forms of coercion, Yonhap news agency reported.