2009/05/10 NST Online
SUBANG JAYA: All she wanted was to go from SS14 to SS15 to meet a friend, but the short trip turned into a nightmare when she was assaulted and raped by a taxi driver.
The 17-year-old girl had hailed a taxi on Thursday about 3pm to meet a friend in SS15 here.
But the taxi driver drove her around Subang Jaya and Shah Alam before stopping in Kelana Jaya.
He then ordered the girl to remove her blouse and skirt.
As the girl fumbled with her clothes, she managed to speed dial her friend on her mobile phone.
Her friend heard the taxi driver ordering the girl to hurry up with the undressing.
The terrified girl offered the taxi driver her mobile phone and money but he refused and insisted she undress.
"When she refused, the taxi driver slapped and beat her then ripped off her clothes," said a police source.
Although the taxi was parked near a condominium, nobody came to the victim’s aid as the windows were tinted.
The friend, in the meantime, contacted the girl’s elder sister, who rushed to the police station.
The taxi driver later dropped the girl by the roadside and sped off.
A passer-by took the girl to a hospital where medical examination confirmed she had been raped.
She was unable to provide any information about the suspect except that he had tattoos on both shoulders, one of which was of a scorpion.
Selangor police chief Deputy Commissioner Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar declined comment.
