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Rape accused were 'like dogs looking at raw meat' A woman told a jury that
five men she alleges pack-raped her were like "a pack of dogs looking at
raw meat" Having earlier
described being lured to a building in Mt Maunganui on the pretext of a lunch
date with one of them, she yesterday gave a graphic account of the incident
which took place 16 years ago when she was aged 20. The man she thought she
was meeting for a date was dominant in the group, ordering her to lie down,
restraining her, raping her twice, forcing her mouth on to his penis, and
repeatedly shoving an object into her. This accused had made "all sorts
of derogatory comments", as he carried out the acts. While using an
object on her he had said, "you like it don't you? Do you want it
harder?" She said the man was deliberately trying to hurt her with the
object. The others were
grinning. "It was like a pack of dogs looking at raw meat, there was no
respect." She described them
variously as "frenzied", having a "glazed" expression and
like a "rabid dog". The five all raped and
detained her, she said. Four men - two of them former public servants - face
charges. The other alleged offender has never been identified. The defendants deny the
charges and say the woman was a willing participant in group sex. The woman told the
court she "just wanted to die" when the second man shoved the
fingers of one hand roughly inside her. "There were lots
of 'ooh yeahs' going on in the background, 'ooh yeah, get her'." The third man to rape
her was "almost running to get in". The fourth had looked
at her as though she was "some rotten prostitute who deserved what was
going on". She made eye-contact with a fifth man, on "lookout"
on a balcony two metres from her, in a silent plea for help but he raped her
as well, despite showing some reluctance. "I said to him,
'they've ruined my life anyway, you might as well'. "That in no form
was permission to rape me, that was desperation." She had repeatedly told
them "no" and sobbed quietly but did not cry out for help. "[X] is a big man.
I had my hands above my head, my legs were spread. There was nothing I could
do." There was no telling what they may have done had she screamed, said
the woman, who is now married with children. In cross-examination it
was suggested she was a precocious young woman who decided to have sex with a
group of fit, athletic men she described as being "chick magnets".
The woman dismissed that as a "scenario out of a Penthouse magazine. She
did not make a complaint or seek medical treatment at the time because she
feared circumstances such as her pursuing the date and going voluntarily to
the building may be misconstrued. Defence counsel Paul
Mabey, QC: "If you had gone to the doctor, there's the evidence to
indicate the truth, isn't it? Complainant: "I
didn't see it that way at the time." Mr Mabey: "Was it
that there was no visit to a doctor because there was no injury to be seen
... because your story of forced rape is untrue?" Complainant:
"Incorrect." |
