SINGAPORE— After years of silence, the survivor of a deeply disturbing rape case in Singapore involving her husband and six other men shared her story with The Straits Times in the hope of helping others.

Annie (not her real name) used to break down reading her husband’s letters from prison. Now, she barely glances at them.

“I don’t love him anymore,” she said quietly. “I’ve let go and moved on.”

Her husband, known only as “J” in court reports, is at the heart of one of Singapore’s most disturbing sex crime cases: a calculated and brutal scheme where four men drugged their wives and allowed others to rape them. Annie was the first known victim — and the woman at the centre of it all.

J, who recruited the most accomplices, drugged Annie and facilitated her rape by five men, one of whom attacked her on their wedding anniversary.

She told her story to The Straits Times twice — first in 2024 and again in May 2025 on camera. The pain was raw.

“I really hate him for making me go through this,” she said through tears.

“But I tell myself I have to go on.”

Annie met J in 2008 at a karaoke bar. She was in her 20s, drawn in by his humour and charm. Within months, she was pregnant and reluctantly married him.

“I told him, ‘I don’t feel secure with you,’” she recalled. He promised he had changed.

But shortly after their first child was born, Annie discovered he had been checking into hotels regularly. At first, he lied, then claimed a woman was “just giving massages.”

She forgave him, wanting to keep the family intact.

“I didn’t want my child to grow up in a broken home,” said Annie, who had been raised by a single mother.

But the cycle repeated. Even during her second pregnancy, she caught J lying about his whereabouts.