A United States musician and social media star has been accused of rape, sexual violation and strangulation after an alleged incident at the Canterbury\u00a0University rugby clubrooms.<\/p>\n
The New Zealand Herald reported Benjamin Hasbun Dansky, aka Haseya, has appeared in the Christchurch District Court facing five charges.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the 27-year-old is accused of sexually assaulting a woman and he allegedly \u201cintentionally impeded\u201d her normal breathing by \u201capplying pressure on their throat and neck\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Herald reported it understands the alleged assault happened at the University of Canterbury Rugby Football Club rooms on Waimairi Rd.<\/p>\n
Dansky is due to appear again in court on May 20.<\/p>\n
“Police have laid serious charges against a 27-year-old Christchurch man following a reported assault at a Riccarton premises,\u201d said Detective Senior Sergeant Colin Baillie told the Herald.<\/p>\n
“The man has been charged with rape, two counts of unlawful sexual connection and impedes breathing\/blood circulation.<\/p>\n
“The victim is being provided with support throughout this process.<\/p>\n
“As the case is before the courts, police are unable to comment further.”<\/p>\n
Dansky is also facing a charge of intentionally damaging glass windows, property of the university, the Herald reported.<\/p>\n
Dansky, under the name Haseya, has just under 32,000 followers on TikTok and more than 12,000 on Instagram.<\/p>\n
He has also recorded songs, which are available on various platforms, including Spotify and YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A United States musician and social media star has been accused of rape, sexual violation and strangulation after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-416403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416403","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=416403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}