By COURT REPORTER
A distraught Bay teenager told a Tauranga female police officer she was "totally grossed out" when she woke in a car to find a 44-year-old man she'd known for only three days sexually abusing her.
Welder Mark Garraway of Judea is charged with unlawful sexual connection with the 16-year-old
girl after police found her in his car parked under a willow tree behind the Fraser Cove shopping centre about 6am on January 14.
Garraway's jury trial to defend the charge began in Tauranga District Court last week but was adjourned until yesterday after he sacked his lawyer part way through the prosecution case.
Garraway, who is now representing himself, was able to further cross-examine his alleged victim via questioning by his court-appointed special legal adviser, duty solicitor Glenn Dixon.
Under questioning by Mr Dixon the girl denied there were any discrepancies between what she told the two police officers at the scene and what she had told the jury last week.
She insisted the first she knew something was wrong was when she woke up not long before the patrol car pulled up.
The girl, who is now 17, said Garraway's actions were non-consensual.
Garraway cross examined Constable Rick Dent, the officer in charge of case, who was one of the two officers who spoke to the complainant immediately after the incident.
Mr Dent gave evidence that he and Constable Kate Perry were carrying out routine patrols when they saw the upset teenager crying in a car.
The girl was invited to get in the back of the patrol car for a chat but insisted they drive around the corner before she told them what happened.
She said that at no stage was the sexual contact was consensual, Mr Dent said.
Ms Perry said when she asked the alleged victim, who she said was visibly shaking and crying uncontrollably, what happened that night she told her she had awoken as if in a dream to find Garraway abusing her.
She was "totally grossed" out by what occurred, Ms Perry added.
The girl told Ms Perry that she was one month pregnant.
She was grasping and holding her body in the back of the patrol as if to try and cover herself, Ms Perry said.
During a taped interview back at the station, which was seen by the jury yesterday, Garraway told Mr Dent that everything about the girl's demeanour and moves towards him lead him to believe she "was up for it".
But as soon as she objected to further contact and "freaked out" he pulled away and apologised to the girl who he thought was 18, the court was told.
Garraway said he had only met the complainant and her boyfriend a few days before the alleged incident at Fraser Cove.
The girl and another teenage friend, who Garraway knew, travelled to Hamilton the night before to visit a strip bar, Firecats.
The court was told that all three had consumed 'P' during the course of the evening.
After leaving the bar, which is owned by Garraway's brother, the group returned to Tauranga in the early hours of January 14.
On the return journey both Garraway's passengers fell asleep.
The trial continues this week.