rape_victim_could_have_'closed_his_butt-cheeks’,_says_lawyer

The only thing more ridiculous than my version of this stuff article is the fact that we're living in a country where we have to have anti-rape protests.

I'll be supporting women everywhere today and attending the protest. Seriously men - stand - the - fuck up.

Rape victim could have 'closed his butt cheeks’, says lawyer

Article that wasn't published on stuff 14/11/2013.

A young Wellington man raped by a bouncer in an alleyway could have "closed his butt cheeks" if he didn't want sex, the man's lawyer told a jury.

Katy Jefferies was addressing the Wellington District Court in defence of Georgia Pule, who was found guilty last night of raping the drunk 20-year-old after telling him she would help get him into a club to see his friends.

Her comments were condemned after the verdict as "disgusting" and "disrespectful" by Wellington Rape Crisis manager Nathan Garner.

They come in the wake of the Roast Busters scandal, in which a group of young Auckland women boasted online of having sex with drunken boys as young as 13.

Jefferies told the jury that the complainant and Pule, 34, a bouncer at The Establishment bar, had walked down Courtenay Place holding hands before having consensual sex in the early hours of October 22, 2011.

She claimed the man made a false complaint to police six days later because he regretted the sex. There was no struggle or any threats, nor was there violence, Jefferies said in her closing arguments yesterday.

"All he would have had to do was to close his butt cheeks . . . it's as simple as that," she told the jury. "Why didn't he do that? . . . The reason he didn't do that was because the sex was consensual, as easy as that."

Garner said Jefferies' remarks were unacceptable. "It's disgusting, but also unnecessary, to use that kind of victim-blaming rhetoric."

Jefferies said after the verdict that her comments were made as part of the defence, and were not her personal view.

"This is the defence of a criminal charge. The Crown and the judge didn't complain about it."

The case revolved around whether sex was consensual, which made the complainant's position important, she said.

"The accused was of the view there was an element of willingness from the accuser, and that he was a willing partner. What I say to the jury doesn't represent my personal view. It merely represents the defence."

Crown prosecutor G Kelly said in court that the complainant held Pule's hand as they walked down Courtenay Place only because he "thought she was her saviour".

When she tried to kiss and grope him he clearly said no, and was clearly saying no as she bent him against a wall and raped him.

"No, he didn't fight back, he didn't scream his head off, he didn't go running into the street screaming ‘Rape!' But this isn't an American TV show This is real life. He was scared, and he didn't want to make the situation worse."

Kelly said it was Pule who approached the man in Courtenay Place when he was alone, and drunk on beer and vodka. His friends had gone home earlier, but he had stayed in town with a co-worker and his sister.

The three women were in the line for The Establishment when the complainant realised he had left her ID with a friend who had gone home. He then decided to go home on his own, went to a bus stop, but realised he was also without his eftpos card or money.

When Pule approached him, he told him he needed to get into a bar to see his friends. Pule said she was a bouncer and could get him in, but had to pick something up first. She then led him towards Cuba St and raped him.