
The woman at the centre of a 60 Minutes defamation case has broken down while describing how she was forced to take a virginity test at a Jordan hospital when she was just 13 years old.
Nadia Tabbaa testified that despite telling the doctor she had not been with a man, the test purported to find she was not a virgin, leading to her being beaten by her father and brother Omar.
When she asked her brother to repeat her denial to their father, she said he replied: “He believes you because if he didn’t you’d be dead”.
The 29-year-old was giving evidence on Wednesday for the Nine Network, which is being sued by her parents, Mouhammad Tabbaa and his former wife Pamela Tabbaa, over a 60 Minutes program.
