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Allegations of Abuse
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Tea Ropati - League Star accused of
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One News A former Kiwi league star who
cannot be named is to stand trial for rape and three counts of sexual
violation. A woman claims she met the accused
while drinking at an Auckland bar in June 2006. The court heard she had been
drinking wine all night and had taken cocaine before the alleged attack. The accused has denied all charges
and says the only person he hurt was his wife. 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 back room 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. When he refused to drive the woman
home she started sulking, but he says he never expected her to cry rape. |
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