Teen model flees ‘abusive marriage’ to Malaysia prince

A teenage US-Indonesian model has returned to her family in Indonesia with tales of abuse, rape and torture at the hands of a Malaysian prince, after her dramatic escape with the help of Singapore police.

Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17, told reporters she was treated like a sex slave after her marriage to Tengku Temenggong Mohammad Fakhry, the prince of Malaysia’s Kelantan state, last year.

Her mother, Daisy Fajarina, said she would press charges against the 31-year-old prince, and blamed the Malaysian and Indonesian governments for trying to cover up the alleged abuse.
“The things I’ve been afraid of were revealed to be true. Manohara has suffered physical abuse. She’s got several razor cuts on her chest,” Fajarina said on Monday. “No parent could be silent if their child was treated in such a barbaric way.”

The Malaysian government had ignored her pleas for access to her daughter and had blocked her from entering the country, she said, while the Indonesian embassy had said that Manohara was fine with her new husband.

But the young woman said her life at the royal palace involved a “daily routine” of rape, torture and occasional drug injections that made her vomit blood. She said she was usually held under guard in her bedroom at the palace and was injected with tranquillisers whenever she complained. “I am still traumatised by all that happened and it has left an impact on me,” she told reporters, after escaping the royal family during a trip to Singapore over the weekend.

The teenager whose wedding captured the imagination of Indonesia said she would be tortured if she did not appear to be happy when she attended social functions with Fakhry. Manohara has already filed for divorce.