An Opotiki woman has admitted her part in the brutal beating and abduction of a 17-year-old girl.
The victim's harrowing experience was revealed in Tauranga District Court this week after Moewaka Biddle-Sevaki,
21, pleaded guilty to one charge of kidnapping and injuring with intent to injure, and an unrelated charge of malicious use of a telephone.
The latter charge relates to her sending abusive text messages to a woman on August 3.
The police summary of facts read out in court revealed that shortly after 3am on September 23 the victim was walking in the vicinity of Richard St, Opotiki, with some male associates.
Around the same time, Biddle-Sevaki, who now lives in Tauranga, and two female Mongrel Mob associates were driving past, and saw the victim pull a gang sign at them.
Insults and threats were exchanged between the two groups before they went their separate ways.
About half an hour later, the victim was walking along Richard St alone, when Biddle-Sevaki got out of a car and punched her repeatedly in the face, knocking her to the ground. She then punched and kicked the teen, before dragging her by her hair and bundling her into the car and driving off.
When a female friend of the victim tried to stop the abduction, she was threatened.
The victim was then driven around Opotiki for almost two hours during which she was threatened, and repeatedly told she would be taken to a river and drowned if she did not disclose the location of a male associate.
Every time the victim tried to open the door to escape, Biddle-Sevaki pulled her hair and on one occasion punched her in the face.
During the journey the vehicle was driven erratically and the terrified victim was repeatedly yelled at and told to "shut up'' and "stop crying''.
After being driven to the Waiokea River the victim was dragged out down to the water's edge, again threatened then left on a riverbank.
She ran to an associate's house and the police were informed.
As result of the ordeal her eyelid was swollen and a reddened eye was nearly closed over. She also suffered a mildly swollen scalp, tenderness and swelling to her forehead, a bump to her spine and a sore back.
The victim told police she thought she was going to die and had never been so frightened in her life. When questioned, Biddle-Sevaki told police she was drunk, and the victim had been mouthing off at her group, and said she was sorry.
Biddle-Sevaki, who was granted bail by Judge Thomas Ingram, will be sentenced on December 18.