By Leon Berenger in Hikkaduwa
Sunday May 27, 2012
Hikkaduwa: Tourist destination where the sordid incident occurred. Pix by Saman Kariywasam
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 She was an unsuspecting 16-year-old girl who found herself forced into an air-conditioned room in a luxury tourist resort in Hikkaduwa, and allegedly repeatedly raped by a 27-year-old Saudi Arabian businessman.
Unable to bear the agony of her ordeal, she wept as she related her story to a Police team that blew the lid off a racket not only in prostitution but also human smuggling. The story unfolded after the Police acting on a tip-off, stormed the hotel and arrested two Saudi nationals and a local woman resident of Maradana, and rescued the 16-year-old girl.
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The young girl’s mother and other family members in Batticaloa |
Another young Thai girl aged 20, was also found to be in the group, but was released as it was revealed that she was a mere companion of the other Saudi national. The girl, who cannot be named owing to her age - 16 years and 7 months - had, on the previous night, been allegedly repeatedly raped by the 27-year-old Saudi national, after he had paid a huge sum of money to a local human trafficker for a virgin female sex slave.
Investigations reveal that the trail began from Batticaloa, where the girl was procured for Rs. 200,000 by an agent identified only as Prakash, currently evading arrest. The money, to be handed over to the girl’s mother, a resident of Batticaloa District, never reached her, the girl was later to tell police.
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