An orangutan who was forced to become a sex slave and sleep with men on a daily basis has finally undergone rehabilitation after it was rescued from its kidnapper in an Indonesian village. The endangered Bornean orangutan named, Pony, was reportedly discovered in February 2003 inside a darkened room in the village of Kareng Pangi, Central Kalimantan chained to a wall and lying on a mattress.
The orangutan who was taken away from her mother when she was a baby, was abused for years by local palm oil farmers coming into the village to pay £2 each to have sex with her. According to Mai Online, the brothel madam who kept her in the dark room treated her extremely harshly, shaved her every two days and forced her to wear perfume and makeup. She was even taught to perform sex acts on demand for her customers.
Due to the harsh treatments on Pony, whenever her brothel madam who kept her captive visited her in a rescue centre, she would ‘scream and defecate’ continually.
Michelle Desilets, director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK when Pony was rescued, told The Mirror: ‘My friend Lone [Droscher-Nielson], who rescued Pony, had to bring in 30 army officers when she was seized.
‘Afterwards, the madam visited Pony on a monthly arrangement to reduce the risk of retribution.
‘But every time Pony saw her she would scream and defecate again and again. We were forced to increase security and put a stop to the visits.’
Lone Droscher-Nielson, who was part of the team who rescued Pony in 2003, told the Sun: ‘When I found that she was used for prostitution and not just a pet I was horrified.
While Michelle Desilets, director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, told VICE back in 2007: ‘They [the farm workers] would come in especially for[her].
‘You could choose a human if you preferred, but it was a novelty for many of the men to have sex with an orangutan.’According to the report, Pony is now in good health 15 years on from her ordeal, and now lives in an enclosure in Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Centre with seven other orangutans.
