Gang rape trial told of teenager's torment
Alan Mascarenhas
July 17, 2007
A DISTRESSED 15-year-old girl allegedly stumbled out of an apartment in Hurstville on the afternoon of August 31 last year.
After phoning her foster home and then her aunt, she confided to a youth worker the events of the previous 24 hours. "I've just been raped by five African guys," the girl allegedly said. "They had sex with me three at a time."
Three men of Zambian background, Likumbo Makasa, 25, Tyrone Chishimba, 21, and Mumbi Mulenga, 25, are accused of aggravated sexual assault committed in company against the minor, who cannot be identified.
Having pleaded not guilty, they sat sombrely in the District Court yesterday as the Crown prosecutor, Jill Cash, presented the case against them on the trial's harrowing opening day.
On the evening of August 30, Ms Cash said, the girl was drinking whisky and cask wine with friends when approached by Makasa, who invited them to his home in Gosford Road, Hurstville.
Makasa, it is alleged, then sent a text message to a co-accused: "
Bro. There's honeys at [Likumbo's]. Come on over."
The alleged victim was feeling intoxicated and ill, Ms Cash said. Having fainted in a Hungry Jacks restaurant earlier that day, she vomited on Makasa's lounge and then a bedroom doona, before passing out in the garden.
Later that night, she revived and made her way to Makasa's bedroom saying she "just wanted to sleep".
Soiled and stinking of vomit, she was ordered to take off her clothes and slip into a blue sarong and a yellow jersey emblazoned with the word "champion". The girl recalled falling asleep with a male alongside her, Ms Cash said. Another male was on top of her when she awoke.
"I'm only 15. I don't want to do this," she allegedly cried.
But the accused allegedly raped her vaginally, anally and orally. "There was more than one male performing acts simultaneously. The males would then rotate," Ms Cash said.
The next morning, the girl was wakened at 7am by a naked Makasa who was sitting on her bed. "Are you going to have sex?" he allegedly asked. "I want to go home," she replied. Makasa shot back: "What makes you think I care what you want?".
Repeated intercourse allegedly followed throughout the day before Makasa wiped himself and the girl with a blue chequered towel and told her she was dismissed.
The previous night, one of the co-accused, Mulenga, is alleged to have said: "I am always horny. I haven't f---ed anyone for a long time."
The trial continues today.
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