An Australian teenager, Audrey Pekin, 19, has told how she was raped
twice on Christmas Eve in Bali while holidaying with her family – and
has slammed Indonesian police for letting her attacker, Henry Alafu,
escape back to his native Nigeria.
According to Daily Mail, Audrey was brutally raped on two separate occasions.
was taking place a nearby villa, and the pair agreed to go to it
together.However, during in taxi ride to the home, Ms Pekin began to
feel unwell due to her type 1 diabetes.
of noticeable noise that suggested there was no party taking place,
because her illness made it ‘impossible to think’.
She said “He went from a man to a monster, I can’t quite describe
the feeling, the sadness, to know what was about to happen and that I
would or could not have done anything to stop it.I was literally shaking
and drooling… I threw some very feeble punches, but I could not move my
arms…I could not move anything.”
desperately tried to escape. Alafu then followed her, and tormented her
as she struggled to flee.
nearby service station, but Alafu allegedly told staff to ignore her and
‘to stay out of it Ms Pekin believed she was safe when a cab picked her
up, only for Alafu to force his way into the cab and again allegedly
rape her.
‘He kept trying to kiss me… he molested me
in the back of the taxi for everyone, for the taxi driver, to see,’ He
wouldn’t stop.’
Ms Pekin escaped the cab when it got back into the city of Kuta, when Alafu stalked after her again.
‘He loped after me… he was laughing – he was taunting me,’
It was only after another man, believed to be a fellow Australian, saw Ms Pekin was distressed and stepped in to help her.
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| CCTV footage captured Alafu waiting in the lobby for Ms Pekin, |
‘I wish I could find that man… he deserves a medal, that man saved my life,’ Ms Pekin said.
Ms Pekin’s sister, Frances, discovered her on the floor of her hotel room hours later.
‘She wasn’t even on the bed – she was next
to the bed crying, shaking… in that moment I knew something, the worst
had happened,’ Frances Pekin said, according to the report.
The family rushed Ms Pekin to hospital, where doctors found her entire body covered in bruises.
‘He was crushing me, he nearly suffocated me… He could have killed me,’ Ms Pekin said.
The 19-year-old then had a ‘virginity test’ at Sanglah Hospital, which she said was similar to a ‘third assault’.
‘The test was horrible, It was invasive… It was painful.’
The test not only confirmed to police Ms Pekin had been raped, but it also revealed
she had contracted a sexually transmitted infection in the attack. The
Pekin family’s torment was worsened by the fact the alleged predator
was allowed to escape the country, and remains on-the-run.
A number of Facebook posts by Alafu, under a different name,
including a picture he uploaded of the two together the night before,
led to the Pekins family to believe it ‘evident’ he was the man who
allegedly attacked their daughter.
Police were in possession of Alafu’s phone number, Facebook profile and current address, but the Pekin family says they did not do enough.
‘It’s just so hard to know what to do,’ Ms
Pekin’s father, Karl, said. ‘It’s incredibly frustrating… They could
have picked him up – he was still a threat.’It’s clear who he was, clear
where he was, so we don’t know why he wasn’t picked up.’
It was not until January 12, 18 days after the alleged attack, an attempt to arrest the Nigerian national.
Four of Alafu’s friends were arrested in a raid on the property on
January 14, however it is believed he had escaped by that point. Police
tracking revealed his phone was later used in Jakarta before being
deactivated. His Facebook account was later opened from Nigeria.
