Raped maid not carrier of AIDS: Police

Arab News, 29 January 2009 (02 Safar 1430)

MAKKAH: Police denied yesterday that an Indonesian maid who was raped by many people in December is an AIDS carrier as reported by several newspapers recently, Al-Watan newspaper reported.

"We do not have evidence that the rape victim or the suspects are carriers of sex-related diseases," said Maj. Abdul Muhsin Al-Mayman, spokesman for Makkah Police.

Local newspapers reported on Tuesday that 46 men, including a police officer, raped the 38-year-old maid who ran away from her sponsor in the Al-Nuzhah district of the city in December.

The woman was first picked up by a police officer who raped her at a rest house. It was also reported that the woman was abandoned and found by a police patrol that took her to Makkah's King Faisal Hospital where she has been undergoing treatment for AIDS.