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Topics: UK News, Health, Social Media
Anish Vij
A glamour model from the UK claims she was sexually assaulted in a hospital in Turkey while still recovering from surgery.
Carla Howe, a content creator and boxing ring girl, travelled from London to Istanbul for a cosmetic procedure at Acibadem Taksim Hospital last Wednesday (29 October).
In an interview with The Sun, the 35-year-old with 900,000 followers said she went for a fox eye lift, which is designed to create an almond-shaped, slanted eye appearance.
A day after the treatment, however, Carla says she was lying on the hospital bed with iced patches on her eyes when she 'felt the duvet being lifted around my breast area'.
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“I could hear a noise to my right of the hospital bed,” the ex Playboy bunny said.
“I obviously thought it must just be the nurses or something.
“I shot up immediately and shouted, ‘Excuse me!’”
Carla said she pressed the red buzzer and rang up the Turkish police, who arrived within 25 minutes of the phone call.
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“They came straight to the hospital and checked the CCTV,” she explained.
“They identified the suspect, who was apparently a hospital worker.
“It is very scary. I don’t feel like, as a British female person, that it is safe in Turkey.
“If I didn’t feel the blanket being lifted, God knows what would’ve happened – I have an angel.”
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The influencer said she is pressing criminal charges, having contacting the British Embassy and the Foreign Office.
“My first thought was, ‘Oh my God, has he been in here before and I didn’t see him?" she added
“No male should have access to a room,” she said. “If I didn’t wake up there and then – I’m assuming the worker thought I was unconscious because of the patches on my eyes – I could’ve been sexually assaulted or God knows what could have happened.”
Carla said that she was glad to be awake 'because if I wasn’t, I don’t know what would have happened to me'.
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“The whole thing has left me terrified,” she said. “It was supposed to be a quick, simple recovery – not this.”
A Foreign Office spokesperson told the outlet: “We are supporting a British national following an incident in Turkey.”
LADbible Group contacted Acibadem Taksim Hospital for comment and the Foreign Office for an update.