Pictured: Jungle cave where Indonesian shaman, 83, ‘kept a 12-year-old girl as sex slave for 15 years after telling her that he was possessed by the spirit of her boyfriend’
- Shaman, identified by police as 83-year-old JG, kidnapped the girl in 2003
- The girl, who was 12 when she vanished, was kept in a jungle cave for 15 years
- Jago convinced her that he was possessed by the spirit of a boy named Amrin
- Girl believed she was dating Amrin, but was in fact having sex with Jago
This is the cave where an Indonesian witch doctor kept a girl as a sex slave for 15 years after convincing her that he was possessed by the spirit of her boyfriend, police say.
The girl, named only as H by police, went missing from the village of Bajugan in 2003 when she was just 12 years old.
For a decade and a half, she was kept in a jungle cave by the shaman, identified by officers as Jago.
Prison: The woman, now 28, had been kept as a sex slave in this cave from the age of 12, when the shaman convinced her he was possessed by her childhood boyfriend
Police said Jago, 83, had shown the girl, now aged 28, a picture of a boy named Amrin ‘who she thought was her boyfriend’.
‘She was led to believe that Amrin’s spirit had entered (the elderly man’s) body,’ Central Sulawesi Police Chief Muhammad Iqbal Alqudusy said.
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‘It is obvious that he was satisfying his lust.’
During the day the woman was kept in the cave to avoid detection, but at night she was brought up to a hut near the shaman’s own.
Rescued: The young woman is seen being rescued by police near the jungle cave where she had been living for 15 years
She was rescued on Sunday but officers acting on a tip-off.
Indonesia is a predominantly Muslim country but old beliefs about spirits and other paranormal activity are still held by some.
Arrested: Jago, 83, enslaved the woman by telling her he was possessed by her boyfriend
The woman told police she had been having intercourse with ‘Jin Amrin’ since 2003 ‘but she was really having sex with Jago’.
The man, he said, admitted to sexual relations since 2008.
Police said they found the woman after her sister alerted neighbours she was nearby.
According to the Jakarta Post, the sister was married to the son of the shaman, known for his traditional healing methods and abilities to channel spirits.
The man explained the victim’s disappearance to her parents by saying she had gone to Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, to work, the newspaper reported.
The man has been charged with offences under Indonesia’s child protection laws, which carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
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