US TOURIST ABDUCTED AND GANG RAPED BY CABBIE, ACCOMPLICES

 

PETALING JAYA, Malaysia -  An American woman who boarded a taxi at Mutiara Damansara here was abducted, robbed and gang raped by three men on Monday.

Police are tight lipped on the details of the case but sketchy information from sources revealed that the 24-year-old tourist from the US had hailed a taxi near the Curve shopping centre in the evening.

Apart from the cabbie, apparently another man who was also in the taxi threatened the woman with harm before relieving her of her valuables.

• The woman's intended destination was unknown but it is learn that her assailants fetched another accomplice along the way before taking the victim to an undisclosed location in Sungai Pelek, Sepang. She was held captive and then gang raped by the men.
• Meanwhile, A massive manhunt has been launched to trace three accomplices of a man who was nabbed over the abduction and rape of an American woman after she boarded a taxi here on Monday.

Selangor police CID chief SAC Mohd Adnan Abdullah said today that police have obtained a nine-day remand order on the man.
He said the 47-year-old old suspect, a lorry driver, had previous criminal records for theft and was tested positive for drug abuse.
He said police learnt that the 24-year-old US citizen was not a tourist but was working in Malaysia as an English teacher.
Mohd Adnan also said the woman was raped by one of the four men and not by all of them.

Source: The Sun Daily