on the second day of his trial at the Christchurch District Court<\/a> after one juror called in absent and another declared a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n\u2018I was wanting to leave\u2019<\/p>\n
The teen, who is now a young woman, said she was on a mattress in his bedroom when she awoke to the assault, not knowing how she got there.<\/p>\n
She said she vomited numerous times during the alleged assaults.<\/p>\n
Crown prosecutor Christina Hallaway asked her why she repeatedly apologised to Moses over the course of the alleged assaults.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I was trying to apologise to him because I was wanting to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
She told the court she tried to leave the bedroom three times, but her body was weak, as she struggled to stand.<\/p>\n
On the third attempt, she made it to the front door and said she was met by a woman with an accompanying man standing on the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt very relieved when she asked me if I wanted help,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to leave his house, and he kept on hurting me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defence lawyer Jessica Campbell asked the woman if she had introduced herself to Moses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I did introduce myself to him and recall telling him I had an argument with my family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Moses had pizza, and she said she took a slice. She said he invited her back to his house, where she drank three glasses of vodka. <\/p>\n
Campbell said the pair moved between the lounge and the kitchen, talking, singing and dancing, and relaxed.<\/p>\n
She said Moses was happy as the pair were having a good time.<\/p>\n
Was it consensual?<\/p>\n
Under questioning from Campbell, the woman said she remembered leaving home, walking down the street, walking through a park, a school nearby, a petrol station and shops, the offer of pizza, walking back to his house, drinking vodka and the layout of his house.<\/p>\n
Campbell asked if the woman remembered sitting on the couch with Moses as he spoke to his mother on the phone, her also talking to his mother, Moses going to bed and then walking out of his bedroom naked.<\/p>\n
The woman said she didn\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n
The woman denied walking into his bedroom, sitting on his bed and engaging in sexual activity with him.<\/p>\n
She disagreed that sexual activity was consensual.<\/p>\n
Campbell asked her if there was an instant regret because she had slept with someone who wasn\u2019t her boyfriend, and if she had acted more \u201cout of it\u201d than she actually was.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sex was consensual; you regretted that consensual sex as soon as it was over, you panicked because of what it meant.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman rejected the statement and said her relationship was over by that point.<\/p>\n
The trial continues tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Al Williams is an Open Justice reporter for the New Zealand Herald, based in Christchurch. He has worked in daily and community titles in New Zealand and overseas for the past 16 years. Most recently, he was editor of the Hauraki-Coromandel Post, based in Whangamat\u0101. He was previously deputy editor of the Cook Islands News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt seemed like he was trying to comfort me a little bit; I felt safe with him at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,1117,1554,28560,207008,1350,28559,13441,12517,207009,111,43,139,69,28703,34458,17703,427,1961,61,1455],"class_list":["post-402821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-accused","tag-alleged","tag-complainant","tag-donny","tag-hears","tag-herself","tag-introduced","tag-jury","tag-moses","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offending","tag-rape","tag-sexual","tag-story","tag-this","tag-to","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}