New Guinea while husband was tied to a tree naked

A U.S. academic has been gang raped in Papua New Guinea by nine armed men who hacked off her blonde hair and left her husband tied naked to a tree.The 32-year-old woman, who was conducting research into exotic birds in a remote forest on Karkar Island, was walking along a bush track with her husband and a guide on Friday when they were set upon by the gang armed with knives and rifles.Her husband and the guide were stripped and bound by the men, who then used a bush knife to hack off the woman's hair before raping her in a terrifying ordeal lasting 20 minutes.of animals': The U.S. academic, 32, was with her husband and a guide when they were ambushed by nine men armed with rifles and knives she was gang raped and her blonde hair hacked offThe woman chose to speak out about the horrific attack condemned by the country's prime minister Peter O'Neil as 'the cowardly act of animals'  to highlight the violence that women in Papua New Guinea experience.
The brutal gang rape came less than a week after an Australian man living in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea was shot dead and his Filipina girlfriend gang raped when a group of men broke into their house.The U.S. woman, who posed for a photograph but did not want to reveal her identity, spoke to media in Port Moresby as she and her husband waited for a flight to leave the country.'I was walking along a bush track with my husband and our guide when we were ambushed by nine men armed with rifles and knifes,' she said.Relaying an ordeal that has sent shock waves throughout the country, the woman said the men first ordered her husband and the guide to strip naked before they were tried to trees.Her clothes were torn off, her hands were bound and her blonde hair was chopped off with bush knives. She was then raped one by one by the gang for a terrifying 20 minutes.Her ordeal ended only when something in the forest startled the gang and they ran away.The U.S. couple's guide managed to break free and released them, before they all ran naked along jungle tracks for several hours, determined to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the scene of the attack in case the gang came back.