Thursday, February 03, 2011

Pakistani woman: I was sold every few months...


Recounting a harrowing tale of rape, torture and exploitation, a Pakistani woman who escaped after a year in captivity says she was sold to someone new every few months since being abducted by her husband's friend.

"Every few months I was sold off to someone new and eventually I even began to forget where I was," said the 45-year-old woman, who was kidnapped from Karachi and finally managed to escape in Bhowana tehsil in Punjab province.

She told the police that she had been passed off from one man to another and had been raped frequently over the year, Express Tribune reported Wednesday. More...

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