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The Ecosoc News Monitor

20 January 2009

Maid raped in desert

Arab Times, 20 January 2008

Kuwait : Police are looking for unidentified youths for kidnapping and raping an Indonesian maid, reports Al-Qabas daily.

In her complaint to the Sabah Al-Salem Police Station the victim said she was on her way to the Indonesian embassy after escaping from her sponsor. A Jeep reportedly stopped on the road and offered to drive her to her destination.

However, the driver and his friend who was in the passenger seat took her to a camp in the desert and raped her.

They handed her the telephone number of a taxi and escaped.