A teenage prostitute who was allegedly abducted and held as a sex slave has broken her silence after the ordeal.
|||Cape Town - The teenage prostitute who was allegedly kidnapped and held hostage as a sex slave has broken her silence on her 24-hour nightmare.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Voice, the traumatised young woman recounts her ordeal of being kidnapped - allegedly by a couple - as well as the hell that followed.
The teen claims the male suspect forced her to have sex without a condom and raped her from behind, while the woman tried to perform oral sex, molested her with her fingers and sucked on her breasts.
After hours of abuse, she said, it felt like she was losing her mind and she pulled out her own braids.
The Daily Voice has also learned her pimp had been forcing her to have sex for food, and wanted to send her back out into the streets the night after she escaped the couple.
Melanie Blomerus, 38, and David Julies, 52, have since been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting the 19-year-old.
“I remembered all the things they did to me. It was emotional for me,” said the young woman, speaking through Ntokozo Yingwana, advocacy officer for the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat).
The teenager said she was approached by Julies in Main Road, Kenilworth, on Thursday, April 4.
“He was alone. He didn’t mention the lady or the threesome,” she said.
At the Belhar home, Julies introduced her to Blomerus and told her that they were going to have a threesome.
“I asked him to use a condom, but he also refused and told me he didn’t have any diseases,” she said.
“When I refused to have sex with him without a condom, he pushed me down and forced me to have sex with him.”
The couple then locked her in a room, with only a mattress and a chair.
Blomerus, she said, then tried to perform oral sex on her, sucked her nipples and fondled her vagina.
She claims Julies raped her “many times” from behind, and when she tried to get away, he pulled out some of her braids.
“I was going mad, not knowing if I was going to live, and I pulled out some of the braids myself,” she said.
She said the pair didn’t leave the house the whole night and the next day.
The victim said she finally escaped when the pair allowed her leave the room to use the toilet.
“When I left the room, I saw that the front door was opened a little, and that’s when I escaped,” she said.
The woman then ran into the streets naked, begging for help.
She said a neighbour came to help and later took her to the police station.
Yingwana, from Sweat, tells the Daily Voice the teen initially told them her pimp was her boyfriend.
“We struggled to get hold of her through him after she had been discharged from hospital on Saturday,” said Yingwana.
“We discovered that she had been forced into the sex trade or would not get food.”
The young sex worker called the man from the hospital to fetch her after being discharged.
“He asked her to get ready because she was being sent out to work that night. He said, ‘This is no bed and breakfast’.”
The victim is now staying at a women’s shelter.
The couple will apply for bail on May 15. - Daily Voice