The
victim, who is believed to be a teacher, called the cab using the
99taxi mobile app after dining out with some students from her class at a
restaurant in the west of Sao Paulo.
The taxi driver, named locally as Fabio Honorato da Silva, 33, denies the charge and claims the act was consensual.
The accused was caught after the woman took a picture of the taxi's license plate and reported the assault to the police.
Sao Paulo
police then trapped the driver by arranging to meet him at a petrol
station where he was arrested and driven to the police station where the
victim 'positively identified' him.
The
woman said she was forcibly held against her will in a white Prisma
taxi cab by da Silva, who she said locked the doors, stripped her naked
and sexually abused her.
She
claims the ordeal ended when she agreed to exchange personal details
with the assailant who wanted to meet up with her again.
The
man, a married father of three, agreed to drop her off near where she
lived in Moemba, Sao Paulo's south zone, saying he would contact her at a
later date.
In
a statement to investigators, the teacher said the driver began
harassing her as soon as she entered the vehicle and tried to kiss her
by force.
She
said he kept asking questions about whether she had a boyfriend. When
she refused to answer, she alleges he parked the vehicle in a deserted
street, closed the windows, locked the doors and forced the victim to
masturbate his genitals and then raped her in the back seat of the cab.
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