JEDDAH: Nine days after her arrival to Qatif, Eastern Province, to work as a housemaid, the 21-year-old Indonesian woman identified as “Leni” says she was abducted and gang-raped by eight masked men.
Police are searching for suspects after the maid was kicked out of a vehicle in front of a hospital. “They took me in a car to an unknown place,” she told Al-Yaum Arabic daily in a report published on Friday.
She said two men grabbed her and three other men were in the vehicle that had windows tinted. Leni says the men took her to a place about 10 minutes from the home where she works. She was forced into a building where she encountered three other men.
“They took me to a room and beat me up with their hands and threatened me with a knife that they will kill me if I resisted,” she said. “Those criminals then started raping me, one after another, and they did not listen to my cries and call for mercy.”
She said criminals also took mobile phone pictures of her naked. Afterward, she was driven to a hospital and dumped. Leni said she approached two Saudi women nearby and told them what had happened. The women contacted police, who escorted Leni into the hospital.
The maid’s sponsor thanked police for their quick action and hoped that police would soon capture the criminals so they could be punished severely. A number of Saudi women have expressed their solidarity with the maid.
