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Female guilty of sexual attack on teen

By Tracey Chatterton
Hawkes Bay Today·
22 Jun, 2015 05:59 AM2 mins to read

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A jury has found a second teenager responsible for the sexual violation of another girl.

A jury has found a second teenager responsible for the sexual violation of another girl.

A jury has found a second teenager responsible for the sexual violation of another girl.

Nakita Roper, 17, was yesterday found guilty of two charges of being party to the violation of the 17-year-old girl she was friends with at the time.

She, Vaughan Olsen, 21, and Joshua Kerr, 20, had been defending the charges during a week-long trial in the Napier District Court. The jury found the young men not guilty of the two charges.

The trio had defended the charges during a week-long trial in the Napier District Court.

The court heard how the victim was stripped naked, pinned to the ground and was punched and kicked in the head by two other young women at a Hastings party last July.

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During the four-hour-long assault, she had water thrown on her, was spat on, had her hair cut and was so traumatised by the sexual assault she defecated.

Hannah Sims, 21, who was renting the flat at the time, had already pleaded guilty to nine charges, two charges of indecent assault, sexual violation and assault with a weapon as well as a charge of injuring with intent to injure, threatening to kill and unlawfully detaining a person.

Before the trial, Roper, Kerr, and Olsen also pleaded guilty to some of the lesser charges including injuring with intent to injure and being party to the indecent assault where Sims rubbed her crotch in the girl's face. Roper also admitted punching the girl four or five times in the face after she was told her friend liked her ex-boyfriend.

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After five hours deliberating, the jury found Kerr guilty of detaining the girl and indecent assault by removing her clothes. However, he was found not guilty of encouraging Sims to assault the girl with scissors by cutting her hair off.

Olsen was also found not guilty of the assault with the scissors but guilty of encouraging Kerr to assault the victim by hitting her on the backside with a spatula.
Olsen and Kerr were issued a first strike under the three strikes legislation. Roper does not come under the legislation as she is just 17.

Lawyer Roger Philip applied for bail on behalf of Roper. Judge Geoff Rea declined this saying Roper was likely to receive a significant prison sentence. The trio were remanded in custody until sentencing next month.

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