A jury trial began yesterday for the Hastings builder accused of drugging and sexually violating a teenager living at a house he was renovating in December 2005.
Sean Leslie Riley, 28, is also alleged to have given the girl, who was 14 at the time, hepatitis C when he injected her with a substance.
Riley is charged with wilfully and without lawful excuse causing a disease, namely hepatitis C; three counts of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection; and threatening to kill.
The girl, who is now 16, told the court under questioning from crown prosecutor Clayton Walker in the High Court in Napier yesterday she had been on school holiday and home alone one day in December 2005 when Riley, with his nephew, 15, was renovating the porch at her mother's house.
She said Riley had come inside and offered her a drink of water which she drank but immediately began to feel dizzy and weak afterwards.
Watching from the lounge the girl said she saw Riley go out to his truck take a pill from a blister pack and "brew it up" with a teaspoon and lighter.
She alleges he then came inside, instructed his nephew to hold out her arm, and injected the substance into her hand with a syringe. She was told by Riley the substance was Ritalin.
She claims he then took her to a house, where the woman she knew to be his wife came to the door.
After leaving her and his nephew in the truck for 10 minutes, she said Riley emerged and drove them down a driveway to a shed at the back of the property.
Inside the shed the girl believes she was injected four more times and forced to perform oral sex twice on Riley.
"All he was saying was this makes you do things," she said. "He asked me to have sex with him and I said no."
Struggling to speak through the tears the girl said she had blacked out and woken to find Riley with his hands under her T-shirt touching her breasts and he then moved his hands under her jeans. She said he then realised what the time was and drove her and the nephew home, threatening her on the way that if she told anyone about what had happened he would kill her and her family.
Mr Walker said when they arrived at the girl's home her mother demanded to know where they had been and was told by Riley they had been out collecting quotes.
Mr Walker said the mother would be giving evidence later in the trial and was expected to tell of her daughter being moody that night but her thinking it was because she had been told off.
The girl said she didn't tell her mother for six months until she "couldn't keep it in anymore".
Once told her mother contacted police and a doctor took a blood test which showed she had the same strain of hepatitis C as Riley - 3A -a strain 45 per cent of people with hepatitis C in New Zealand have.
Riley's lawyer Eric Forster will begin his cross examination of the girl today. The trial is expected to wrap up today with evidence from the girl's friend who she confided in, her mother, Riley's ex-wife who is expected to talk about his drug habit, four GPs including infectious disease expert Richard Meech, a police officer and an addiction counsellor.
I was drugged,violated: Teenager
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