AN ONLYFANS model who was left for dead after being brutally attacked at a suspected “Porta Potty” party in Dubai is finally able to walk again.
Ukrainian Maria Kovalchuk, 21, was brutalised at a sick sex party back in March and suffered a broken spine and leg which required ten major operations to fix.
Maria was found in a coma on the roadside in an affluent neighbourhood in Dubai before being rushed to hospital for surgery.
After almost 10 months of intense rehab, Maria has proudly shown off her successful recovery.
Ditching the wheelchair which has helped her move around since the near fatal attack, Maria said she is “rising from the ashes, learning to live and believe again”.
She shared a heartwarming video of her walking across a snow-covered bridge in Norway where she has been receiving treatment.
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A huge smile can be seen plastered across the young model and make-up artist’s face as she looks at the camera.
Other clips show Maria continuing her recovery with yoga and doing stretches alongside her trainer.
Speaking to her 42,000 followers on social media, Maria said at the beginning of her treatment she felt like “a broken doll”.
“I kept wondering how I would live with these injuries, with this scar, disfigured…how I would somehow go on with my life,” she added.
“But over time, my perception of the world began to change.
“I started paying more attention to my inner self and realised that what matters most is your inner state — what you learn and what you feel.
“But I managed thanks to the support of my loved ones and my friends. And I felt the healing power of love.”
Despite it being months since Maria was found unconscious, injured and alone, she is yet to find any justice.
Police in Dubai have never named who caused her life-changing injuries.
Maria’s heartbroken mum detailed the horrors her daughter had to endure after it was revealed the model had no recollection of the doomed party.
Maria was left fighting for her life after being “scalped during torture”.
Mum Anna said Maria’s “hair was shorn with a knife” before the young model was scalped.
Speaking on Ukrainian TV show Hovoryt vsia kraina, Anna said: “My impression is that it was just done like this, with a knife, and right across the face.
“It looked as if it was done with a knife from the centre of the head all the way down to the eye, and the hair was cut off.”
Maria also went through a number of surgeries out in Norway where she was taken to receive treatment.
Three operations on each leg were followed by two on her spine and a final surgery to fix her snapped shoulder blade, according to Anna.
It was initially believed that Maria had been kidnapped into a sex trafficking ring linked to the notorious “Porta Potty” scene in the UAE.
These are disturbing events which are known to involve high-paying clients who degrade women, often influencers, for large sums of cash.
According to Maria and her friends, she had missed her flight home to Thailand while staying at the luxury Five Jumeirah Village hotel in Dubai.
She was offered a place to stay by a 19-year-old man she had recently met at a karaoke bar before being invited to a hotel room.
She was then allegedly abused for several hours.
Dubai police have also examined a theory that suggests Maria may have jumped from an eight-floor ledge from a nearby construction site.
A neurosurgeon who examined the model’s injuries has categorically said her wounds were not consistent with such a fall.
They are more likely to have been caused by Maria being beaten and appear as though she may have been hit by a car, he added.
What are Porta Potty parties?
PORTA potty parties are events, usually in the United Arab Emirates, where women are paid large amounts of money to sexually gratify wealthy men – in often highly degrading ways.
It’s thought that the women are sometimes duped into participating on false pretences – such as the promise of a modelling contract.
At the events, men exploit the opportunity to commit depraved acts on the women.
The name supposedly comes from the fact that the deeply disturbing acts can include men treating women as human toilets.
Women, often from ex-Soviet countries, are lured in by the promise of a glamorous lifestyle and highly paid careers in the oil-rich states.
An expert told The Sun that, once in the country, they fall under the complete control of the men and can be raped, drugged or even end up dead.
Recruiters often target attractive women with online presences, or even TV stars.
Radha Stirling, founder and CEO of Detained in Dubai, told The Sun: “It’s exploitation disguised as glamour or opportunity. Women, in particular, are offered all sorts of opportunities in Dubai.
“They might be offered to come and model, to come and play music, or to expand their career in some way or another.
“But what they don’t realise is that when they get there, they are essentially at the beck and call of whoever has brought them there.
“They’re under their complete control, and they put themselves in such a risky position where they could end up gang raped, they could end up drugged, they could end up dead.”
