[UPDATED] Police: Kidnapped girl was molested, almost sold into prostitution
By Ruwaida Md ZainOctober 17, 2024 @ 4:55pm
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Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said investigations showed she was brought to an apartment in Setia Alam and molested by two of the suspects when she was kept there.
"During the incident, the victim was taken in a car and in that car, there were two men and two women.
"She was brought to an apartment rented by a suspect. There, she was believed to have been molested," he said today.
"The victim was molested by two male suspects aged 13 and 23. According to the victim, she was given an electronic cigarette that was intoxicating before being molested.
"The victim was abused but not significantly, what is worse than that the victim was sexually assaulted," he told reporters after an event to dispose of evidence from drug cases involving Selangor police.
Hussein said the investigation found that the girl's kidnappers were also planning to sell her to a prostitution syndicate in the Chow Kit area.
"One of the suspects involved, the leader of the group, was the one who tried to sell the victim to a prostitution syndicate.
"However, when police announced the news of a missing girl, the syndicate did not want to buy her.
"So they (the kidnappers) brought the victim back and asked the victim to return home in an e-hailing vehicle," he said.
Hussein said, from the information they received from the victim, police managed to arrest six suspects, including the two who had molested the girl.
"The victim knew two of the six suspects arrested, one of whom was the ex-lover of the victim's brother.
"That's why she initially agreed to follow the suspect into the vehicle.
"Police are looking for two more individuals linked to the prostitution syndicate to facilitate investigations into the case," he said.
It was previously reported that the girl was believed to have been kidnapped near her home as witnesses claimed to have seen her getting into a dark-coloured vehicle.
A review of closed-circuit television camera footage from the area confirmed that she had entered a black Perodua Myvi.
She was found about 2.30pm on Saturday.
Acting on information, police arrested four men and two women in Segambut Dalam, Setia Alam and Pandamaran in various raids beginning about 5pm the same day.
