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Allegations of Abuse
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Tea Ropati - League Star accused
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Radio NZ A woman who alleges she was raped by
a former sports star has told the Auckland District Court she was in no fit
state to consent to sex. Tea Ropati, who played for the
Kiwi league team, is facing six charges in connection with the incident in
June 2006. The complainant, who met Mr Ropati
at a bar in Ponsonby, has admitted drinking the equivalent of six bottles of
wine and snorting cocaine prior to the incident. She says any honorable man would
have recognised she was not able to consent to any sexual activity. But the defence has suggested she
was not as drunk as she says. |
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