Police investigating the abduction and rape of a Filipina woman last week in Jeddah have provided further details about the six individuals arrested Thursday, revealing that some members of the gang had previous criminal records involving drugs and rape. Authorities are also investigating possible links between the gang and the previous abduction of another Asian woman. Officials said that the six included a drug addict, and another – the youngest of the group – who had been released from a youth detention center only weeks earlier after having been detained for the rape of a boy. The oldest of the gang was reportedly 23 years old and had been incriminated in two previous cases involving drugs and rape. According to statements from the accused, they had not planned their crime beforehand but were instead on their way to visit friends in the Al-Safa District where the abduction took place. Police announced on Friday the arrests of all six persons allegedly responsible following an intensive search effort that included undercover officials and multiple roadblocks. The six detained men subsequently revealed to the police details of the crime, in which three of them abducted the lady and took her to an abandoned area in the east of the city and repeatedly raped her. They reportedly said that after the act, the initial three called the three others, and then took the woman's telephone and called the number of another Filipina and asked her to join them in exchange for SR1,000. The woman switched off her telephone. The gang then abandoned their victim close to a private hospital in the east of the city, having relieved her of her mobile telephone and money.
