Drugged, raped and Seoul police did nothing, foreign woman in Korea says
- 8 years ago
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — South Korea police have started a Facebook war with Australian woman claiming to have been drugged and raped while vacationing in the Seoul.
Airdre Mattner, from Adelaide, South Australia, is an English teacher in Japan. Mattner was visiting Seoul on Sept. 25 last year when, she claims, she was "drugged, abducted, and taken in a taxi to a hotel in the middle of nowhere by the man who later raped me." Mattner reported the incident to local authorities, who she says were not helpful and even insulting.
Mattner started a GoFundMe account to raise awareness of her situation and help cover her legal fees and other expenses. She provided details of the incident, condemning South Korean police.
According to her campaign page, Mattner was originally visiting South Korea with her boyfriend and a friend. She decided to extend her stay alone and visit some pubs. She recalls riding in a taxi with a man and asking to be taken to her hostel. But the driver ignored her and listened to the man, taking them to a hotel room. She remembers struggling with the man on the bed of the hotel room then waking up naked the next morning.
Mattner then reported the incident to police and spent roughly 10 hours between the station and hospital, where despite being placed in stirrups, she says staff did not perform proper rape procedures and no DNA samples were taken.
"I was questioned in an often very insulting manner. I insisted that I had not simply passed out from being drunk, that I had been drugged," she wrote.
Mattner said she never received communication from the police following the incident. She and her family are now pursuing the case in London, where she believes her alleged rapist resides.
South Korean police responded in length to the GoFundMe page on their Facebook, calling out Mattner by her full name. The since-deleted post, written in both English and Korean, said that Mattner's accounts don't match those of police reports.
"You are also claiming that someone took you to a hotel when you got addicted by drug, and you clearly stated what happened to the police but police didn't reflect your statement," the post read.
Police also denied any wrongdoing saying that DNA samples were taken, communication was lost due to Mattner leaving the country and that the incident is being properly investigated.
A week later, the post was deleted and a new an apology post was written.
"We do apologize the fact that we caused some unintended troubles resulted from our answers on Facebook post on April 1, 2016, which was solely intended to solve misunderstandings of our investigation on the case," wrote chief of Woman and Juvenile Crime Department of the Yongsan Police Station in the Republic of Korea.
South Korean police have been notoriously criticized for lacking proper investigation methods in cases that involve foreign persons.
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Airdre Mattner, from Adelaide, South Australia, is an English teacher in Japan. Mattner was visiting Seoul on Sept. 25 last year when, she claims, she was "drugged, abducted, and taken in a taxi to a hotel in the middle of nowhere by the man who later raped me." Mattner reported the incident to local authorities, who she says were not helpful and even insulting.
Mattner started a GoFundMe account to raise awareness of her situation and help cover her legal fees and other expenses. She provided details of the incident, condemning South Korean police.
According to her campaign page, Mattner was originally visiting South Korea with her boyfriend and a friend. She decided to extend her stay alone and visit some pubs. She recalls riding in a taxi with a man and asking to be taken to her hostel. But the driver ignored her and listened to the man, taking them to a hotel room. She remembers struggling with the man on the bed of the hotel room then waking up naked the next morning.
Mattner then reported the incident to police and spent roughly 10 hours between the station and hospital, where despite being placed in stirrups, she says staff did not perform proper rape procedures and no DNA samples were taken.
"I was questioned in an often very insulting manner. I insisted that I had not simply passed out from being drunk, that I had been drugged," she wrote.
Mattner said she never received communication from the police following the incident. She and her family are now pursuing the case in London, where she believes her alleged rapist resides.
South Korean police responded in length to the GoFundMe page on their Facebook, calling out Mattner by her full name. The since-deleted post, written in both English and Korean, said that Mattner's accounts don't match those of police reports.
"You are also claiming that someone took you to a hotel when you got addicted by drug, and you clearly stated what happened to the police but police didn't reflect your statement," the post read.
Police also denied any wrongdoing saying that DNA samples were taken, communication was lost due to Mattner leaving the country and that the incident is being properly investigated.
A week later, the post was deleted and a new an apology post was written.
"We do apologize the fact that we caused some unintended troubles resulted from our answers on Facebook post on April 1, 2016, which was solely intended to solve misunderstandings of our investigation on the case," wrote chief of Woman and Juvenile Crime Department of the Yongsan Police Station in the Republic of Korea.
South Korean police have been notoriously criticized for lacking proper investigation methods in cases that involve foreign persons.
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