A TEENAGE US-Indonesian model has returned to her family in Indonesia with tales of abuse, rape and torture at the hands of a Malaysian prince, after her escape with the help of Singapore police.
Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17, said she was treated like a sex slave after her marriage last year to Tengku Temenggong Mohammad Fakhry, the prince of Malaysia’s Kelantan state. Her mother, Daisy Fajarina, said that she would press charges against the 31-year-old prince, and blamed the Malaysian and Indonesian governments for trying to cover up the alleged abuse.
“The things I’ve been afraid of were revealed to be true. Manohara has suffered physical abuse. She’s got several razor cuts on her chest,” Fajarina said on Monday.
“No parent could be silent if their child was treated in such a barbaric way.” The Malaysian government had ignored her pleas for access to her daughter and had blocked her from entering the country, she said, while the Indonesian embassy had said that Manohara was fine with her new husband.
However, the young woman — a wellknown socialite in Jakarta — said her life at the royal palace involved a “daily routine” of rape, abuse, torture and occasional drug injections that made her vomit blood. She said that she was usually held under guard in her bedroom at the palace and was injected with tranquilisers whenever she would complain.
“I am still traumatised by all that happened and it has left an impact on me,” she said in Jakarta on Sunday, after escaping the royal family during a trip to Singapore over the weekend. She said she secretly called Singaporean police and pleaded for help after the family took her to Singa pore when they accompanied Fakhry’s father, Sultan Ismail Petra Shah II, for medical treatment.
“The police told Fakhry that he would be held in jail if he did not let me go. No one could force me against my will in Singapore and I knew I had a chance to escape,” she said