The mother of accused sex offender Nicholas Paul Alfred Reekie gave evidence for the Crown against her son at a depositions hearing in the Waitakere District Court yesterday.
Suzanne Reekie appeared confused when she entered the court, saying: "This is ridiculous."
She was called as a witness in the case against Reekie,
31, who faces 23 charges involving alleged sex attacks on an 11-year-old girl in New Lynn in 1992 and three other women aged between 23 and 69 between December last year and February this year.
The charges include breaking and entering, abduction, rape, unlawful sexual connection, attempted abduction and aggravated assault.
David Dougherty was wrongly jailed for the abduction and rape of the 11-year-old.
Prosecutor Sue Gray called Mrs Reekie, who agreed Reekie was staying in her daughter's bedroom at her West Auckland home in December last year.
On one occasion in late December, she was disturbed by noises coming from the bedroom as she and her daughter were sleeping in the next room.
Mrs Reekie said the noises were nothing out of the ordinary.
The Crown alleges that Reekie had the 69-year-old victim of abduction, rape and unlawful sexual connection in the room with him for a number of hours.
Mrs Reekie said she asked her son what was going on. When he appeared at the door of the bedroom, Reekie said everything was okay.
"To be truthful, I did not think much of it at the time."
Mrs Reekie said that later she burned two blankets or duvets which had mud and blood on them. She thought they belonged to an ex-girlfriend of Reekie.
Under cross-examination from Reekie's lawyer, Allan Roberts, she agreed that it was not unusual for her son to have girlfriends in the bedroom.
At the end of her evidence and before standing down, Mrs Reekie leafed through an exhibit containing photographs from the case.
She made the comment "disgusting" and shuddered before walking out of the courtroom without looking at her son.
Dr Charles Sanders said he saw the 69-year-old complainant on December 31 last year.
She told him she had been assaulted, tied up and raped. She had wounds on her arms and legs.
Dr Sanders said the complainant would not let him tell the police.
"She wanted to put it behind her ... pretend it never happened."
