Female brutally raped, beaten and robbed in horrifying assault near the Colosseum after asking for directions
The 49-year-old Australian woman was knocked out and left with a broken nose after two men pounced
A LOST Australian female tourist was allegedly brutally raped, beaten and robbed near the Colosseum in Rome.
Italian police were shocked by the savagery of the attack on Sunday.
The 49-year-old woman from Melbourne suffered concussion, a broken nose and such severe bruising.
She is expected to spend the next month in hospital recovering from the attack.
The woman’s daughter her mother was “not doing well”.
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“She has bruises all over her face and a broken nose,” she added.
The victim, on a study tour in Rome, asked for directions from a man near a bar at the Termini railway station.
The suspect allegedly offered to show her the way, before another man came along and she was forced into a 'cabin' at the Colle Oppio park, near the Colosseum.
The woman told a local reporter from her hospital bed: "I'm feeling so bad.
“They beat me brutally, non stop. The face, the nose, the left eye. I’m in pieces.
“And then what they did to me after, I can’t even think about it.”
The woman recalled being punched in the face and had her purse stolen.
She was found unconscious, with her hands tied behind her back, by a passer-by.
Police yesterday charged a suspect, alleged to be homeless, in connection with the attack and returned the victim's belongings.
A 40 year old Romanian man has been charged with sexual assault, robbery and bodily harm.
It was the second serious assault in a fortnight on a foreign woman in the Italian capital.
A 49 year old Brazilian woman was kidnapped, raped and beaten by two men and a woman near the Tuscolana train station on September 25.
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