The ghost rapes of Bolivia: Horrifying story of women who were drugged before being tied up and assa [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Mail

The ghost rapes of Bolivia: Horrifying story of women who were drugged before being tied up and assaulted in own beds... and they can't even remember what happened

• In 2009, nine men in a Bolivian Mennonite community were jailed for raping at least 100 women and girls
  
  
• The gang used a powerful sedative adapted from a tranquilizer to drug households before carrying out the attacks at Manitoba Colony
  
  
• Women were not initially believed despite waking to blood-soaked sheets
  
  
• Despite the convictions, it has emerged attacks in the colony have continued

By Becky Evans

PUBLISHED: 10:22 EST, 6 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:56 EST, 6 August 2013

The spate of terrifying night-time rapes in an isolated, orthodox Christian community went on for four years and yet the victims could barely remember the ordeal and many believed they had dreamed it.

It was not until 2009 that nine men were eventually convicted of the rape of more than 100 women and girls in their own homes in the Mennonite Manitoba Colony in Bolivia.

But despite the convictions, it has emerged that the sexual attacks in the closed community are continuing.

An investigation has uncovered that once more women and youngsters in the Old Colony, where motorised vehicles and electricity are banned, are suffering sexual assaults they can barely remember.

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