By Lee Shi-Ian

BANTING, MALAYSIA: To prove that her love was true, a 13-year-old girl agreed to go for a traditional therapy at her boyfriend's behest.

The therapy session, however, turned out to be a trap and she was repeatedly raped by the man.

It is learnt that the man, a 31-year-old Indonesian labou-rer, had persuaded the girl to go for the therapy on an island, believed to be Pulau Carey.

"The girl was told that her love life was doomed because she had bad luck hovering around her.

"The therapy was supposedly designed to help the girl ward off the ill fortune," a police source said.

Kuala Langat police chief Superintendent Mohammad Radzi Ishak said the girl had been persuaded by her boyfriend to go to a kongsi at the Yayasan Plantation on the island on Tuesday.

The suspect had, on numerous occasions, invited the victim who lives in Malacca, to go to the island and she finally agreed.

She took a bus and arrived at the kongsi, where the man told her to spend the night as the therapy could only be performed the next day.

It is learnt that while the girl was sleeping, the man raped her.

She was raped again the next day.

The girl escaped from the kongsi and flagged down a passer-by who took her to the Teluk Panglima Garang police station to lodge a report.

"Police conducted a manhunt at the plantation where the incident allegedly took place.

"The suspect was found about 24 hours later," Radzi said.

The man has been remanded until Wednesday.