Girl jumped from moving car to escape rapist
An 11-year-old girl jumped from a moving vehicle on a North Canterbury road to escape from the teenager who had just raped her.
She feared she would be killed, the Christchurch District Court was told after the youth today pleaded guilty to five charges.
The 18-year-old from North Canterbury is now in custody awaiting sentence after admitting raping a 17-year-old, threatening to do grievous bodily harm, and abducting, raping, and having unlawful sexual connection with the 11-year-old girl.
The youth was caught by police after a high speed crash snapped a power pole in Birch Hill Road, Loburn, ripping about 2m out of the middle of the pole, and the car came to a stop about 500m away.
The driver was treated at hospital before he was taken into custody after the series of incidents on October 13.
Defence counsel Elizabeth Bulger asked Judge Christopher Somerville for continued interim name suppression. The judge granted the order and also suppressed the discussion in court about the reasons for the order being made. It may be reargued when the youth is sentenced on February 5.
The judge remanded him in custody and asked for a pre-sentence report.
The older victim was raped in a car parked near Christchurch Airport during the night of October 12 to 13. The woman received bruises and abrasions from the struggle, and the youth’s face was scratched and bleeding.
A few hours later, the youth approached the 11-year-old girl at a playground in rural North Canterbury.
He drove her to a remote area where he threatened her with a knife, strangled her, and then sexually violated and raped her.
Afterwards, when the youth was driving with the girl in the car, she was spotted by her father and another sibling. The father stopped and stood in the middle of the road signalling for the youth to stop, but he drove around him and sped off.
Fearing that she may be killed, the girl jumped out of the moving car, receiving scratches to her face and neck. She had also received grazes to her body, arms, and legs, and a cut to her thumb from pushing away the youth’s knife. She also received injuries consistent with a sexual assault.
A police officer then saw the vehicle but did not know the girl had escaped. He recorded the speed as 122km an hour.
Along Birch Hill Road the speed was recorded as 154km an hour, before the youth crashed into a power pole at about 150km an hour.
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