Photographers: Vlad Sokhin. [Violence Against Women In Papua New Guinea]
Author: jone Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 3122
Helena Michael (40), mother of seven children. On December 27th (2011) she was attacked by a [cannibal] near the Boroko police station, in the central part of Port Moresby. The attacker bit off Helenas lower lip and wanted to sink his teeth into her throat. The woman managed to escape by kicking her assailant in his testicles and biting three of his fingers forcing him to release her. Police arrested the man and found out that it was his third attempt to eat human flesh. Having spent three days in the hospital, Helena went to the police station to initiate criminal proceedings against the cannibal, but discovered that he had been released due to the lack of complaints. Helena is still waiting for the hospitals approval to start surgery for skin graft on her missing lip. (Photo by Vlad Sokhin)
Banil Yalomba (16) came to the Antenatal Clinic of Port Moresby after having been sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend. A day after they separated, her former partner came to her parents’ house and dragged Banil to a bush area, threatening her with a knife. There he beat her and raped her. Banil’s father managed to find his daughter laying unconscious on the ground and brought her to the hospital. (Photo by Vlad Sokhin)
Members of the Raskol gang [Dirty Dons 585], 9 Mile Settlement, Port Moresby. All of these young men committed a set of rapes and armed robberies. The gang members admit that two thirds of their victims are women. (Photo by Vlad Sokhin)
Richard Bal (45) shows disfigured ear of his wife Agita Bal (32) in the Morobe block, Port Moresby. In December of 2010 after coming home drunk, Richard took a bush-knife and cut half of Agita’s left ear. He spend one night in the police station and was released next morning due to [insufficient evidence] to initiate criminal proceedings. Agita’s relatives didn’t allow her to leave Richard, having received 500 kina (about 240 USD) from him for the [potential damage]. (Photo by Vlad Sokhin)
Kimberly Kamata (19) from Hohola area of Port Moresby, undergoes medical exams in Antenatal Clinic after being raped by 3 men in 8 Mile Settlement. In the morning of 22nd of January of 2012, she took a taxi to the city center. The taxi driver allowed 2 other men to enter the car, and drove Kimberly to the bush area, where she was sexually abused for 24 hours. Rapists left Kimberly on the street, from where she managed to come to the clinic. (Photo by Vlad Sokhin)
A nurse of the Antenatal Clinic of Port Moresby is conducting a medical examination to Doring Kande (23), 5 month pregnant, who was brutally attacked by her husband and expelled from her house early in the morning. Dorings drunken husband assaulted her, kicking her in the abdomen, and repeatedly striking her face against the wall. During the ultrasound the doctors did not hear the heartbeat of the unborn baby. Doring reported to the police, but the man was not arrested at the time of this reportage was prepared. (Photo by Vlad Sokhin)
Andres Sime (39), is waiting for the court trial in the prison cell having been accused of multiple rapes. Port Morsby, the Boroko police station. (Photo by Vlad Sokhin)