Envoy recalled after alleged rape

Envoy recalled after alleged rape

KUALA LUMPUR (DPA): Croatia recalled its ambassador to Malaysia yesterday following a civil law suit filed the day before in Kuala Lumpur by a 27-year-old Filipina maid alleging that she was raped and molested by the man over a five-month period.

The Foreign Ministry in Zagreb announced officially yesterday that after an investigation "appropriate measures" would be taken.

Maria Fe Ocampo, who filed her writ at the Shah Alam High Court through her lawyer, Karpal Singh, said she was a virgin whose life has been ruined and scarred because of the rapes.

She is seeking damages, costs and any other relief which the court deems fit against the 46-year-old ambassador, who had employed her in April as a live-in maid together with her mother, Saturnina Talisic.

Ocampo alleged that she was first raped by the ambassador four days after she started working. She says she was also raped on three separate occasions and molested on Sept. 5 before she and her mother sought help with the Philippine embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 8.