Teenager accused of raping 15-year-old Facebook friend in Hong Kong claims alibi: he was at home with his mother on day of alleged assault
- The pair had befriended each other on Facebook in 2016
- The girl accuses him of assaulting her during their first meeting in her flat
A teenage boy accused of raping a 15-year-old Facebook friend in Hong Kong denied ever meeting her, a court heard on Friday.
The 17-year-old Nepali pleaded not guilty to one count of rape as his trial opened in the High Court, a month after his lawyers filed a notice of alibi claiming his mother could vouch for him being at home all day when the sexual assault allegedly took place on July 31, 2017.
The girl, now 17, had accused him of assaulting her during their first meeting in her Sai Ying Pun flat.
Neither are being named because the girl cannot be identified for legal reasons
It was my virginity. I didn’t want him to take it from me just like that
“It was my virginity,” she told a social worker in an interview recorded by police on December 7, 2017. “I didn’t want him to take it from me just like that. I didn’t want to have sexual intercourse with him.”
The court heard the pair had befriended each other on Facebook in 2016 and crossed paths at a mutual friend’s birthday party the following March – but it was not until late July that they connected through messages.
“We just kept on talking on social media,” the girl said. “Then he asked if I wanted to meet up … just to talk about stuff. I said sure.”
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The girl said the accused brought food as she had asked, and offered her alcohol while they talked about his ex-girlfriend. She could not recall what it was she drank but said she started feeling dizzy and stopped drinking after a few glasses.
It was then that the boy slowly pushed her onto her bed, kissed her and took off their clothes, she said.
“I knew where this was going but I couldn’t do anything because I was really dizzy,” she said. “That’s when he started – I felt pain.”
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The girl said she had screamed in pain, asked him to stop and pushed him away but was ignored.
“Did you like it?” she said he had asked afterwards.
“I was actually scared and terrified. Confused,” she told the social worker. “I can talk to people, give advice … I didn’t expect him to go that far and take away something from me.”
Prosecutor Michael Arthur told the jury of four men and three women: “She made it clear by both words and actions that she did not agree to having sexual intercourse with him. But he completely disregarded her.”
The court heard the girl later texted the accused on the same day: “I don’t trust you any more.”
But he reportedly blocked her after sending a “mad emoji” attached to a short reply: “Why?”
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He was arrested on February 9 last year.
In a subsequent interview with police, he said he did not know the complainant and had never met her. He also told investigators he did not know where he was at the material time, except that he did not go to her home.
But he made it clear in a notice of alibi filed last month that he was at his home in Yau Ma Tei all day when the rape allegedly took place, Arthur said.
The trial continues before Mr Justice Andrew Chan Hing-wai on Monday.
