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Allegations
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A woman has gone on
trial for making false rape allegations against a police officer. The Waikato woman
claims she was raped on numerous occasions by the man and sexually assaulted
by a woman he worked with. Police claim she lied
following her arrest on another matter in 2004. The crown alleges the motive
was anger and revenge. After the woman was arrested, she wet herself while in
custody waiting to use the bathroom, something the crown says caused her
distress and embarrassment. It was then she claims
she was sexually violated by a non-sworn female employee who searched her at
the station. Police describe the woman's claims, which include multiple
rapes, abuse, threatening letters and emails, as just a fantasy. The former police
officer told the court he had been at home looking after his sick baby son
the day police stood him down and an investigation began. Detectives working on
the case began an independent inquiry into the rape claims in Auckland. The
court also heard how the officer was several hundred kilometres away on at
least one of the days she claimed he came to her house and attacked her. The woman's complaint
was lodged just days after extensive publicity over claims by Rotorua woman
Louise Nicholas last year. Her allegations sparked a commission of inquiry
and an extensive police investigation involving two dozen officers. The woman has interim
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