Inside Gaddafi's macabre rape chamber

But a report on the news.com.au site notes that it can now be revealed that Gaddafi's victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves. Since he was deposed, Gaddafi's den - where he regularly raped girls as young as 14 -has remained locked. But its gaudy interior, where the colonel brutalised his victims, can be seen for the first time in photographs from a hard-hitting BBC4 documentary. Inside the small, nondescript single-storey complex, the girls were forced to watch pornography to 'educate' them for their degrading treatment at the hands of Gaddafi. And even those who did manage to escape were often shunned by their deeply religious Muslim families who believed their family honour had been tainted. The report notes that when the dictator's body was dragged through the streets by a baying mob, just hours after he was beaten and shot in the head, the hastily convened transitional government moved swiftly to seal off the sex dungeon. They feared the full extent of Gaddafi's debased and lewd lifestyle would horrify the Western world and cause deep embarrassment to Libya. Full report on the news.com.au site