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Shipton, Schollum vs Jane Doe Page 1 - 2007 Trial of
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A woman today described how, as a
teenager, she allegedly lay handcuffed to a bed "begging and
pleading" as three policemen laughed while they forced a bottle inside
her. The woman, who has name suppression,
gave the emotional testimony on the second day of the trial of suspended
assistant commissioner Clint Rickards and former policemen Brad Shipton and
Bob Schollum in High Court at Rickards, Shipton and Schollum
have denied kidnapping and indecently assaulting the then 16-year-old girl
between November 1983 and August 1984 in Rotorua. The woman told the court that
Shipton straddled her and as the bottle was inserted into her vagina, he told
her this is what she wanted. "It was like a joke for
them." The woman said she was picked up
by two men and carried kicking and screaming to a bedroom. She had tried to stop them and the
men commented "for such a little thing I was quite a fighter". After the men left the room,
Schollum remained, making sure she was okay but told her not to tell anyone,
the woman said. Schollum said "I would suffer
more for it and so would my family", she told the court. The woman is expected to give
evidence for the rest of the day. |
