Helper abducted then gang-raped

A 16-year-old helper who was found wandering the streets dazed yesterday claimed she escaped three men who abducted her and raped her on two occasions.

The victim, who was reportedly still in shock, sought the help of an old woman who found her walking along Pelaez Street. The woman brought her to her employer's house in sitio Lomboy, barangay Banawa, Cebu City.

The victim's employer, a certain Bomboy Loyola, reported the incident to the Mobile Patrol Group.

The victim told the police that last Wednesday evening she left the house without permission to buy something. At a dark area three men jumped her and forced her into a car.

The men, described as in their 50s, gagged her with a handkerchief laced with chloroform and she lost consciousness.

She said she woke up in a hut near a beach. All three men, who were drunk, took turns raping her that night and again the next morning.

She said she was able to escape yesterday morning when she attacked them with beer bottles.

Police said she could not identify the area where the men took her to and brought her to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center for medication. - Flor Z. Perolina