Police investigate three weekend rapes

By SCOTT MacLEOD

Police are investigating the rape of a Manurewa teenager and a Mangere woman at the weekend.

A 15-year-old girl was also raped in Mt Maunganui early on Saturday.

Police said she needed hospital treatment after the attack in the Phoenix carpark about 1.30 am.

The attack on the 17-year-old Manurewa woman occurred between midnight and 1 am on Saturday when she left a pub and walked through Jellicoe Park.

The woman told police that she had just emerged from the park when three men plucked her from the street and into a car.

They took her to Weymouth Beach, near Roys Rd, where one of the men raped her.

Detective Constable Dave Lynch, of Wiri, said the woman described a white four-door sedan and two or three Maori or Pacific Island men.

The Mangere woman's ordeal happened at 2 am yesterday.

The woman, who had been drinking in a tavern near the town centre, left to walk across Bader Drive, towards a police station.

Detective Constable Lynch said a Polynesian man aged in his 30s dragged her into grass and raped her.

The woman suffered a possible broken cheek in the "nasty" attack.

The sexual assaults follow recent multiple rapes in Auckland.

On February 4, an Otahuhu mother was pack-raped and beaten unconscious outside her Albert St home. She was found lying on a driveway with wounds to her fingers, hands and one side of her body. She also suffered head injuries and cannot remember the attack.

On January 2, a 20-year-old woman was pack-raped in Tyler St in the central city.