Alleged victim admits later drinking session with rape accused
A girl has admitted getting drunk and passing out in the company of a man she alleged had raped her a month before when she was drunk at a bonfire gathering on Woodend Beach.
She admitted in the High Court trial in Christchurch that she had gone to his bedroom that night and wrote a picture on his bedside furniture of butterflies and flowers and a text-type expression that meant she was his “significant other”.
“It’s just a stupid slang word that teenagers use. It doesn’t mean anything,” she said during cross-examination by Tony Greig, defence counsel for Isaac Jason Mould, 21.
The girl, now aged 17, accepted that she and two friends had gone to Mould’s home a month after she alleged she was raped by three men including Mould, and sexually violated by oral sex by a fourth, in the beach incident.
She admitted she had drunk cider, became intoxicated and then vomited on the back lawn, before her girl friend put her to bed in Mould’s mother’s room.
When she woke, she learnt that Mould had raped the girl friend, she told the second day of the jury trial before Justice David Gendall.
Mr Greig put to her that the only reason she went to Mould’s home, got drunk, passed out, and wrote on his bedroom furniture was that she knew he had not raped her and she could trust him. She denied it.
In answer to a question from Mr Greig, the girl said witnesses would be lying if they said they heard her ask Mould to have sex with her that night.
Mould, from Woodend, Brook Sebastian Norris, a 22-year-old landscape gardener from Brooklands, Troy Matua James McIver, 21, a rigger from Rangiora, Ky Robert Reginald Reid, a 21-year-old logging contractor from Woodend, and Stuart Mitchell Lewis, 21, deny three charges of rape and one charge of unlawful sexual connection.
The Crown alleges that the woman was raped by Mould, McIver, and Norris, and Lewis sexually violated her by oral sex.
All the men allegedly present have been jointly charged on the basis that they either committed the crimes or actively helped or encouraged someone else to commit the crime, or that they formed a common intention to sexually assault the girl, Crown prosecutor Deidre Orchard explained to the jury as the trial began.
Reid has been charged with rape and sexual violation even though the Crown does not say he committed these offences himself.
The girl said she did not remember kissing McIver and Norris at the bonfire gathering. She did not remember talking to them.
She denied that she had let Lewis touch her breast in return for a bite of his McDonald’s.
After the alleged rape she had cleaned herself up and had tried to appear calm when her mother picked her up. “I didn’t want her to know what had happened,” she said. “I didn’t want her to think her daughter was ruined.”
The alleged rape took place in May 2014. The girl made a complaint to the police in September.
After the lunch adjournment, Justice Gendall told the jury that something unforeseen had arisen and the trial was adjourned until Wednesday morning.
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