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Allegations
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The trial of a
Wellington school teacher charged with sexually abusing a pupil is underway
in the Wellington District Court. The 43-year-old man,
who has name suppression, is facing two charges of sexual violation by rape,
one charge of indecent assault and two charges of assaulting a child. The offences all relate
to a seven-year-old girl and are alleged to have occurred between January and
July 1996. On Monday the
complainant, now a 17-year-old secondary school student, told the court
details of sexual assaults allegedly committed on her when she was taught by
the accused. She said the teacher
isolated her from the rest of the class and on one occasion he took her out
into a corridor and raped her. The girl also told the
court that a second rape occurred some time later in a back room adjoining
the classroom. As well as suppressing
the name of the accused, Judge Bruce Davidson, suppressed the name of the
school involved and the names of any witnesses likely to lead to its
identification. |
