On arrest, police searched the man’s home and found he had the telephone numbers of five other women in his cell phone along with a series of threatening text messages that he had sent the girl.
The man had threatened to post the girl’s pictures online if she did not have sex with him. The girl refused but then lured the man to an apartment saying she would sleep with him if he handed her the pictures there. However, when he turned up at the location. He found seven men waiting for him. The men beat him up, stripped him naked and took pictures and video clips of him before releasing him.
After being released, the man told police that he had been kidnapped and robbed. However, police officers became suspicious and during questioning he admitted that he was in a relationship with the Afghan girl and other women whom he met through his work at a dress shop in the city.
The man initially told police that the girl came to his store and bought two dresses and that she took one with her and asked him to alter the other and drop it off later.
He added that when he arrived at the girl’s home to drop the dress off, he was met by seven men who beat him up.
A police spokesman said they are still looking for the man’s attackers and that it seems they were trying to get the cell phone containing the pictures off the man.
Residents of Taif have called on the authorities to monitor dress stores, saying that the men who work there often manipulate their positions to lure women into relationships.
