Four people have appeared in caught over charges of sexual violation and kidnapping a 17-year-old girl.
Four people have appeared in caught over charges of sexual violation and kidnapping a 17-year-old girl.
A teenage girl was beaten, stripped naked and sexually violated with bottles at a small party in Hastings, a court heard yesterday.
Crown prosecutor Steve Manning told a jury that a "young, particularly vulnerable woman," then aged 17, was subjected to various forms of abuse over four hours, in acase of "extreme bullying, humiliation and degradation".
The alleged events had happened at a Hastings flat in July last year, when a group of four people kept the victim confined on the property.
One woman Nakita Roper, 17, and two men, Joshua Kerr, 20, and Vaughan Olsen, 21, are on trial in the Napier District Court this week. They are facing a raft of charges in relation to the matter.
Kerr and Olsen pleaded not guilty to sexual violation and kidnapping charges, while Roper admitted a kidnapping charge, but denied sexual violation charges and threatening to kill.
Another woman, Hannah Sims, 21, pleaded guilty to the nine charges she faced and was remanded until next month.
Mr Manning said the victim had suffered forms of "physical and psychological abuse" from the group, "all because of a throw-away comment one of them took exception to".
The teenager was allegedly kept from leaving a small outdoor area, when her glasses and cellphone were taken from her, and clothes removed. She was punched and kicked in the head and body throughout the attack, Mr Manning said, and there were threats to kill her.
They sexually violated her with bottles, cut off her hair, and hit her on the backside with a spatula, he said. She had also had a bucket of water and a bag of flour poured over her. "Such was her fear, she defecated," Mr Manning said. "She's on the ground, wet, crying, glasses removed, and utterly humiliated."
The jury was shown cellphone footage of the victim allegedly being kicked and punched in the head. One of the video files was said to show Sims stripping to her underwear and rubbing her groin in the victim's face, while she cowered against a corrugated iron fence. Finally, the girl had been told to sit in a chair and sleep, until someone at the party drove her home.
The police were called and visited the property next day. The court was told they found the girl's underwear discarded on the roof of a nearby shed and her hair strewn on the lawn.
The two women, Roper and Sims, had been mostly responsible for the violence against the victim, while the men stood "laughing and encouraging," Mr Manning said. "They encouraged and incited the two women."
The defence declined to make an opening statement. The trial continues today.
