Río Negro officials say Australian tourist not raped

The Río Negro authorities announced that according to the latest exam results, the 23-year old Australian tourist that was attacked by a man and went missing for two days outside the town of El Bolsón was not raped. 

Judge Miguel Angel Gaimaro Pozzi, who last Saturday ordered the release of the only suspect in the case after Emma Kevky failed to identify him in an identity parade, received the results of the latest exams performed on the victim’s body, which indicated that none of the lesions she showed were compatible with sexual abuse.

Last week, the same court officials told the press that the Australian citizen had been hit in the head and body and had also been raped. 

However, official forensic reports indicated that she was not sexually abused, although they ratified that her body showed several bruises and abrasions.

They also announced that a police sketch artist had managed to create a facial composite of Kevky’s attacker, which prompted new investigations in the area where she was attacked and in El Bolsón. 

Kevky left her house for a morning walk in the Cajón del Azul area last Monday 26, when 3 kilometres later she was intercepted by a man who talked her into taking a shortcut.

She told the judge that the man suddenly hit her on the head with a blunt object, leaving her in a semiconscious state that allowed her to defend herself from her attacker. 

The woman was found wandering in the woods by a mountain climber four days later, badly bruised, dehydrated and in shock.

She was immediately medically evacuated in a helicopter to the closest hospital in El Bolsón, where she remained hospitalized until last Saturday.