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Allegations of Abuse
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Tea Ropati - League Star accused
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Newstalk ZB The former rugby league star accused
of raping a woman he picked up at an Auckland bar says the only person he
hurt was his wife. The ex-Kiwi player, who has name
suppression, has been committed to stand trial on three counts of sexual
violation. In a statement given to police after
he was arrested last August, the man said he met the complainant and fooled
around with her while in the backroom of a Ponsonby Road bar. He says while
security stills appear to show the pair having intercourse, they were only
being silly and clowning around. He says they later drove to a nearby park
and may have had oral sex in the back seat of his car. He says when he refused to drive
the woman home she started sulking, but he never expected her to cry rape. |
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