Prince gets bail, may have fled the country.
By Raif Karerat
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More women have reportedly accused a Saudi prince of attacking them, two days after he was arrested for allegedly trying to force a female worker to perform a sex act on him.
The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that Los Angeles Police are investigating further claims that Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, attacked other women. Al-Saud was arrested last week on suspicion of forced oral copulation of an adult, then expediently released on $300,000 bond.
In addition to the sex crime charge, Al-Saud is also facing one count each of battery and false imprisonment. He is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles court on Oct. 19.
However, speaking to Mail Online, neighbors say they believe the prince has already fled the country on a private jet.
The Los Angeles Times said police approached a palatial Beverly Hills estate that the prince was renting after a neighbor saw a bleeding woman frantically screaming for help as she tried to scale the property’s surrounding wall on Wednesday, after a party within the walls.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s special consul division said the prince does not have diplomatic immunity, according to the Los Angeles Times and KCBS-TV.
It is not the first time in recent memory that an official from Saudi Arabia has been accused of a sex attack outside the Gulf kingdom.
A Saudi diplomat accused of holding his two domestic maids prisoner and raping and abusing them for months left India under the cover of diplomatic immunity last week amid public outrage in the country, according to CBS News.
Majed Hassan Ashoor, the first secretary at the Saudi Embassy in New Delhi, stands accused by two Nepali women of trapping them in his luxury apartment and repeatedly raping them over the course of three months.