Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Ex-Miss World set to make documentary of her own rape

London, Dec 22 : Former Miss World Linor Abargil is all set to make a documentary of her own rape, which will show how she survived it to get the rapist jailed a decade ago.

Just seven weeks before she was named Miss World, the Israeli model was raped at the age of 18.

And now she is set to return to the scene of the crime in a documentary, which she hopes will inspire other rape victims to pursue their attackers as tenaciously as she did.

"I want to connect with women who have been raped. If I'd made this documentary 10 years ago, it would have been as a victim. Today I will make it as a survivor," Times Online quoted Abargil as saying.

Abargil was raped on her way from Italy to Israel by an Israeli travel agent, Uri Shlomo, who offered her a lift to Rome. He taped her mouth and hands and raped her repeatedly before trying to asphyxiate her with a cord and a plastic bag.
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