The gruesome story of an orangutan used in the Indonesian sex trade has recently been retold by conservationists who rescued her.
According to the rescuers, they saved Pony — an endangered Bornean orangutan — in February of 2003 from a brothel village in Kareng Pangi, Central Kalimantan. Per a report by the Daily Mail, when the animal was discovered, it was chained to a wall and was found lying on a mattress.
In retelling the rescue story, conservationists revealed some horrible details about how the animal was exploited in the brothel, where perverted oil farmers would visit and pay $3 to have sex with her.
Pony was snatched from her mother when she was a baby, and her captors treated her in an abhorrently harsh manner by making her wear jewelry, perfume and makeup, and shaving her every two days. The poor animal was also trained to perform sex acts based on customers’ demand, the report said.