Crimes against women: Woman raped for a month escapes
She has accused her ex-husband and three of his friends of rape
She has accused her ex-husband and three of his friends of rape. STOCK IMAGE
FAISALABAD:
A woman who was allegedly raped by four men, including her former husband, for a month managed to escape and filed a complaint with the women’s police on Monday.
Police said the woman, a resident of Siddhupura, said that she was married to a man from the same locality but later divorced him because he would often beat her up.
“I then married another man from the same locality and I was happy with him…a month ago, my former husband and three of his friends abducted me from a market.”
She said they put her in a car and took her to a house where they detained her in a room. There the four men beat her up and raped her several times during the month, she said.
A few days ago, they visited her while under the influence and raped her. “They later passed out and I ran away,” she said. The women’s police SHO they had registered a case against the men and were looking for them. “We will arrest them in two days,” she said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 1st, 2015.
A woman who was allegedly raped by four men, including her former husband, for a month managed to escape and filed a complaint with the women’s police on Monday.
Police said the woman, a resident of Siddhupura, said that she was married to a man from the same locality but later divorced him because he would often beat her up.
“I then married another man from the same locality and I was happy with him…a month ago, my former husband and three of his friends abducted me from a market.”
She said they put her in a car and took her to a house where they detained her in a room. There the four men beat her up and raped her several times during the month, she said.
A few days ago, they visited her while under the influence and raped her. “They later passed out and I ran away,” she said. The women’s police SHO they had registered a case against the men and were looking for them. “We will arrest them in two days,” she said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 1st, 2015.