Miss Guyana Survives Hostage situation at South Korea pageant!

Miss Guyana has fled an international pageant after suffering sexual harassment, racism and being given no food or beds to sleep on. Aletha Shepherd, 23, quit the Miss Asia Pacific World contest in South Korea after she was inappropriately touched by sponsors and suffered racism from judges. When she and a few other girls reported the corruption to the police they were stunned to see officials openly bribing local officers with cash.

Aletha kept a daily video diary of all events that took place within the competition on youtube under Confessions of a Beauty Queen. Here you can see her anger over racism from the judges who awarded her best national costume africa award. Not only did they get Guyana's continent wrong she also feels it was racism towards her as she was the only black girl for majority of the pageant therefore they assumed she came from Africa. 

On many occasions Aletha and the other girls would be provided with no food and were forced to sleep on the floor in appalling conditions. When she posed with sponsors they would stick a hand somewhere inappropriate. Some girls were even offered places in the competition in exchange for sex. The final straw came when a talent round was won by Miss Venezuela who had not even entered that section of the competition.

Aletha said "I decided to leave because I had suffered racism, sexual harassment and injustice from the organisers who had broke the contract which we had all signed before arriving. When I tried to leave the pageant with 2 other girls they had diverted us to a deserted hotel near the airport in order to convince us to stay by offering us money. I then ran to the near by airport where they followed us. They continued to refrain us from leaving the country by keeping our bags and keeping us hostage at the airport. We were lucky to escape as the airport police were called."

Aletha's performance throughout the pageant was second to none. She won every competition up to her departure and was leading contender for winning the pageant, having won 'the lotus challenge, the sexy dance competition and best national costume'. After returning safely home she has since heard that Miss Korea had won and it was later changed to Miss France as judging was wrong again! Some girls were also locked in their hotel rooms after the organisers refused to pay $100,000 bill for their accommodation.

Most of the girls have now returned from the competition. Aletha is now looking to launch legal action against the competition. She is continuing her pageant duties how
ever and is currently in Albania for the Miss Globe competition. You can follow her updates at www.alethashepherd.com.