/ 4 November 2004

‘Ex-husband shamed me with sex ads’

A woman claims a vindictive ex-husband shamed her by posting advertising leaflets around their eastern Czech Republic town featuring her phone number and an erotic photo, Prague’s Lidovenoviny newspaper said on Thursday.

A district judge is currently weighing the claim of Michaela Benkova, who says Martin Benk plastered the phoney ads for sex services last summer on phone booths and bus stops around Moravsky Beroun, a town with a population of 3 400.

Benk, a soldier, denies the charge and says he was working on a distant military base when the leaflets appeared.

Benkova said the photo of her in a compromising position was snapped by an ex-boyfriend who allegedly conspired with Benk to ruin her reputation.

Benkova and Benk are currently embroiled in a custody dispute over their two sons, aged six and nine. The case is being heard by a district court in Bruntal, the report said. — Sapa-DPA