A tourist says she was raped and thrown from the balcony of a resort in the Dominican Republic

A New York City woman claims she was raped and thrown from a second-story balcony in the Dominican Republic last month, according to WABC.

The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, told the station that she was staying at Ocean Blue and Sand in Punta Cana at the time of the attack. One day during her stay, she became friends with a couple who were also vacationing at the same resort and were hanging out at the pool bar. Shortly afterwards the three of them had a drink together.

However, the situation became even worse when the alleged victim became disoriented, she said.

“Things started to blur,” she remembers. “I kind of heard a buzzing in my ears, like it was ringing, and that’s when everything started to fade away.”

The woman, who believed she was drugged, said she wanted to rest in her lounge chair, but the 28-year-old man she had been drinking with allegedly grabbed her.

“I remember being taken into the room against my will,” she said. “I remember having my pants forcibly taken off.”

At that point, the alleged victim said she had lost most of her physical strength and was no longer able to speak coherently.

“I remember being afraid,” the woman said. “I cried while doing it.”

The man’s girlfriend told local authorities that she caught her boyfriend and the woman in the hotel room, which in turn led to a fight with the alleged victim. The suspect admitted that she threw the woman from the second floor balcony during the commotion. Police reports confirm that someone called 911 after seeing the alleged victim fall from the second floor with no bottom.

The woman said the incident left her with a spinal injury, a laceration to her hand, severe bruising and internal trauma.

“This world is sick and people have terrible intentions,” she said.

Although the couple now faces charges of sexual assault, attempted murder, violence against women and robbery, a judge has reportedly released them on bail of $1,000 each – the same amount of money the alleged victim said he needed to hire one lawyer spent to prosecute the couple.

“It’s a completely different country, different rules,” the woman told WABC. “They do not care. They could have cared less if I had died there.”

The woman’s lawyer has since argued that the couple should not have been released in the first place and is determined to reverse the order.

“They caught people and let them out again,” said the alleged victim. “How do you do that? What bothers me the most is that I know who did it and they might be walking around free.”

The woman’s story came just weeks after Delaware resident Tammy Lawrence-Daley claimed on Facebook that she was brutally attacked by a hotel employee in January during her stay at the Majestic Elegance, an all-inclusive resort in Punta Cana .

In that incident, Lawrence-Daley said she went out of her room to get a snack when the unknown employee came up to her from behind and pulled her into an unlocked maintenance room.

“The next eight hours caused me pain and fear,” she described in one chilling post. “I was strangled several times until I lost consciousness. My lifeless body was thrown down a concrete staircase into an underground sewage area. I was kicked in the head, I was beaten with a club. I dumped my body in an area I call a “hole.”

In the weeks since Lawrence-Daley made the attack public, Dominican authorities and the hotel have pushed back against her claims, arguing that there are holes in her story.

“There is a lot of conjecture about the case, a lot of information that does not match some statements,” said the spokesman for the country’s national police chief, Colonel Frank Durán. “We have to wait until the investigation is completed.”