A local East Malaysian news website, self-described as satirical, recently published a post made by an anonymous woman about her experience as an RA for a lecturer who had allegedly repeatedly raped her while she was forced to take unknown drugs, had kept her against her will, and destroyed her relationship with her fiance.
There’s absolutely nothing that I can find about this - the portal alleged that the experience described is far too grave a subject for them to even fabricate, and asserting that it’s absolutely true but the author wishes to remain anonymous. I can’t find it, but posts seem to indicate that she’d revealed her story after another woman had described her experience of almost being raped by the same man.
It’s important to note that contextually, a lot of women in East Malaysia are underprivileged in socio-economic standing, especially if they stay there for work. The alleged employer in comparison holds a doctorate and has multiple published works, he does research out of there although I think he might be from West Malaysia.
Here’s the thing - I couldn’t find shit when I typed in his name and possible places of employment (local universities), but when referenced using proper APA referencing and using Google Scholar, every single hit came up. So in the academic world he does exist, but everywhere else he does not. I’ve never seen such a strange result hit even when it came to relatively unknown Malaysian academics, which led me to believe he’d had some of his information online removed professionally. I don’t know this for sure, probably just a weird Google result, but he’s a ghost in this regard, when every one of my local Malaysian lecturers show up, along with their picture, and a link to download a pdf of their doctorate thesis.
I’m at a loss, I honestly can’t tell if the story is real or not, and of course there isn’t any way to - the woman has been urged strongly to contact authorities but she seems insistent on remaining anonymous. Despite everything my training says: that there isn’t a story if there isn’t one, that the news portal looks iffy, that no official reports have been made, nor has any other news portal picked up on this, that there’s absolutely no information anywhere, this is entirely posted without investigation, the story itself is so horribly vile I can’t help but feel there isn’t any way a woman can imagine such a story. For what? Sympathy, or web hits?
I just need to know, is there absolutely any way to find out if the alleged rapist in question even exists? Or did they just slap a picture to a name?
I dug a bit further and found that he might have graduated from my very own university in the graduate programme... http://www.nottingham.edu.my/GS/documents/ResearchQ2010Issue1pub.pdf
Article about alleged man here, in Bahasa: http://bobohizan.com/?p=1633
There’s multiple, multiple articles on this on this one website, but they’re all in Bahasa.
Message for a translation