JAKARTA (AFP) - - A medical examination of a teenage
US-Indonesian model who claimed she was raped and tortured by her
Malaysian prince husband, has confirmed she was physically abused,
a forensic expert said on Tuesday.
Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17, last week told reporters she
was treated like a sex slave after her marriage last year to Tengku
Temenggong Mohammad Fakhry, the prince of Malaysia's Kelantan
state.
She escaped the prince's guards at a Singapore hotel and
returned to her family in Indonesia with tales of abuse, rape and
torture at the hands of the 31-year-old prince.
"There are slash wounds on many parts of her body, especially on
her chest. Some are still fresh," forensic doctor Mun'im Idries
told AFP.
"We are still examining her blood and urine samples because she
said she had been given jabs," he said adding that he also found an
injection mark on her back.
Manohara -- a well-known socialite in Jakarta -- claimed to have
been cut with a razor and injected with drugs which made her vomit
blood while being held under guard in her bedroom at the
palace.
She said after the examination on Tuesday that the prince would
have sexual intercourse after injecting her with an unidentified
substance.
"I don't know what I had been given but I could not move. I
could see, feel, hear and smell... my senses are still there but I
couldn't move," she told TV One channel.
With the help of Singapore police, the former model escaped home
to Jakarta while visiting her father-in-law, Sultan Ismail Petra
Shah II who was being treated at a Singapore hospital.
"The medical examination has been completed and the result
confirmed that there is physical abuse all over her body. Her story
has proven to be true," one of her lawyers Farhat Abbas told
AFP.
He said his client on Tuesday formally lodged a written report
on the alleged abuse with the Indonesian police. Besides the
prince, she had named six other people, including the sultan and
his wife, as accomplices.
"We have received the report today," national police spokesman
Abubakar Nataprawira told AFP.
"Indonesian police is not able to investigate the case as the
alleged abuse took place in Malaysia which is out of our
jurisdiction. But we will assist in reporting the case to Malaysian
police," he added.
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