Indonesian Sex Slave Rescued from Shocking Abuse
Jakarta Globe, June 17, 2010
A young and badly abused Indonesian sex slave forced to have intercourse with hundreds of men over the past two months has been rescued by Malaysian authorities.
The Star online reported that the Immigration Department in Penang rescued the unidentified woman, in her 20s, from a locked room in a house in George Town on Tuesday night. She did not have any valid travel documents in her possession.
Her alleged captors, from Bangladesh, were also taken into custody.
“The Bangladeshis, who were also without any documents, were in the house then and were arrested,” the news portal quoted Immigration Department official Abdul Rahman Hassan as saying. “They have been remanded pending investigations and the woman has been sent to the Penang Hospital for a check up.”
The department reportedly received a tip-off two weeks ago that the Bangladeshis, both in their 30s, “offered” the woman to their friends for a price. She was forced to have sex with a number of men daily or else she would be beaten.
The report did not say why it took so long for Malaysian authorities to act.
The Indonesian Consulate in Penang was not available for comment.
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