A young woman who was kidnapped and used as a sex slave by an Afghan man and his three friends was forced to her tormentor’s name tattooed across her stomach.
In 2023, the then 21-year-old was kidnapped, gagged and raped for several days by her ex-boyfriend, a 33-year-old Afghan man named locally as Jaser A.
Jaser reportedly met up with the victim on August 23 before holding a knife to her throat as his three friends emerged and ambushed her.
The four men then forced the young woman into a tattoo parlour, where she claims she was made to have her ex-boyfriend’s nickname – Elyas – tattooed on her stomach in large, cursive lettering.
Speaking in a Hamburg court on Wednesday, the nurse said she had tried several times to have the ink lasered off. ‘But it’s very deep, they also made it very dark, it can’t be removed. It’s practically a stamp to demonstrate where I belong,’ she said.
In the courthouse hallway, she was pictured lifting up her jumper to reveal the huge tattoo which covers her entire stomach.
After getting the tattoo, the victim said she was taken back to her apartment where she was abused and raped continuously by Jaser.
‘He repeatedly hit, bit, and kicked me, and filmed me, gagged and half-naked,’ she told the court.
Speaking in a Hamburg court on Wednesday, the nurse said she had tried several times to have the ink lasered off
The ordeal lasted seven days, until a SWAT team stormed her apartment and rescued her from her captors. ‘I was lucky enough to get my phone back and contact my parents,’ she said.
‘I want to put everything behind me. Hopefully, time will bring some healing. Life must go on.’
In 2024, Jaser was sentenced to nine years behind bars plus preventive detention for rape, assault, deprivation of liberty, coercion and threats by the Hamburg Regional Court.
The presiding judge of the Hamburg Regional Court said at the time: ‘You treated the woman like a piece of cattle on a Texas ranch. That is simply inhumane!’
Jaser had a prior criminal record and had previously served time for other violent offenses, according to a Blick report.
Addressing the victim, the judge concluded the proceedings: ‘She is a strong personality. She dared to report the defendant. Had she been weak, she would have been broken by the act. Thankfully, she is not.’
The victim is set to return to court at the beginning of December where the next hearing in the tattoo case is scheduled.
The defendant failed to appear in court on Wednesday, due to sickness.
