NSW: 14-year-old accused of raping youth with rolling pin

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2005
NSW: 14-year-old accused of raping youth with rolling pin

SYDNEY, Aug 11 AAP - A 14-year-old boy was one of five people who allegedly gang-raped
a 16-year-old boy with a rolling pin, a Sydney court has been told.

The 14-year-old today faced Cobham Children's Court charged with aggravated sexual
assault in company.

He also is charged with taking and detaining a person for advantage, malicious wounding
and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

According to a police statement of facts tendered to the court, the accused, along
with two men aged 18 and 20 and two women aged 17 and 19, met the 16-year-old boy at Mt
Druitt in Sydney's west last Tuesday.

They befriended the teenager and lured him to a nearby unit with the offer of alcohol.

The owner of the unit, a woman aged 50, knew the group and allowed them to enter at
about 9pm where they began drinking, the facts said.

At one point, one of the adult males became agitated and punched the boy in the face,
knocking him to the ground.

The accused then began punching and kicking the boy while he was crying on the ground,
police said.

"While this was happening, the two girls were laughing and the resident was having
a cup of tea," the statement said.

The court was told the unit owner then went to bed before one of the men threatened
to kill the boy while the group brutalised him with a knife, fork and scissors.

The teenager also was forced to perform oral sex on the two men and was repeatedly
sodomised with a rolling pin, the facts said.

"The (victim) could hear laughter from the other persons while this was happening and
he was calling out for it to stop," the police statement said.

"This whole ordeal took place over a lengthy period of time."

The teenager escaped the unit in the early hours of the following morning after jumping
over a fence and alerting neighbours.

Covered in blood, he was taken to hospital and released a day later.

The court was told that during a police search of the unit, officers uncovered biological
evidence and seized a wooden rolling pin from a garbage bin.

The 14-year-old boy was arrested and charged yesterday at his home at Shalvey, in Sydney's west.

Magistrate Terence Murphy refused him bail and remanded him in custody to reappear
in Cobham Children's Court on August 16.

Investigations into the case are continuing and no other charges have yet been laid.

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