U.S. academic, 32, gang raped in Papua New Guinea by nine armed men who hacked off her hair with a bush knife and tied her husband naked to a tree

The woman, who was conducting research into exotic birds in Papua New Guinea, was walking along a bush track with her husband and a guide when they were set upon by the gang armed with knives and rifles. They ordered her husband and the guide to strip naked then tied them to trees, before hacking off the 32-year-old's blonde hair and subjecting her to a brutal gang rape lasting 20 minutes. She has given an interview and posed for a photograph (above) saying she wanted to highlight an epidemic of violence against women within the country.


The brutal gang rape came less than a week after an Australian man living in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea was shot dead and his Filipina girlfriend gang raped when a group of men broke into their house.