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Rodney took his turn to attack the girl on September 29, last year, the court heard.
Miss Cotcher said: ‘By this time she had lost her innocence and childhood and had begun to drink.
One day she got as drunk as she could.
‘She decided to go for a walk but her legs gave way by a telephone box.
Rodney spoke to her and said he would take her home.
‘Instead of rescuing her, he raped her.
She remembers it hurting inside.
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The schoolgirl told police at the time: ‘He took me over some railing and told me to hold on.
I was falling and he must have taken down my trousers.
I felt him inside me and it was hurting me.
‘I was crying and upset so he stopped.
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Rodney then took her to a flat, where he raped her jurors heard.
The young girl was taken to hospital where she was examined, the court heard.
She told nurses she had been raped.
She vaginal swabs taken which matched Rodney’s dna.
There was also ‘extensive seminal staining down by the leg and ankle,’ jurors heard.
Miss Cotcher said: ‘When Parker was arrested he said ”Who is megan?”.
He was told they were going to search for a video.
He said he knew about the video.
‘Mr Rodney was arrested.
A copy of the video was found in another video he had.
It contained other material but also a complete copy of the Leftbridge x-rated: Part One.
Hodge told police that she had a reputation as ‘a slut’, jurors heard.
He said she was obsessed with him and obsessed with sex.
He told police he encouraged her to have sex with others and on one occasion she came around and asked for sex despite everyone being present, the court heard.
Miss Cotcher said: ‘He said she had picked up some chopsticks and played with her private parts.
‘When the video finished she said she would do it again.
They continued to have sex together after this.
‘He said she was obsessed with him.
He said she was obsessed with sex.
‘Hodge said he was a man who had slept with around 100 girls and would have sex with a different girl each day of the week.
‘He did not remember her telling him it hurt when they first had sex but if it did it would be because he had a big penis.
‘He said February 10 had been no different than usual but he denied being told that she was really 14.
She told the court Charles accepted recording the hardcore video but said it was ‘in the heat of the moment and just happened’.
‘Charles said he never had a chance to have sexual intercourse with her,’ said the prosecutor.
‘He said she knew the camera was filming.
He said he was going to have sex with her but could not get an erection.
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Charles told police orgies were common and he had taped several of them in the past, it is alleged.
In police interivews Gordon said the victim had consented to sex and being video taped.
One of the 17-year-olds gave the police a prepared statement in which he denied that he had ever had sex with her or raped her.
He claimed he was in Amsterdam at the time of the alleged rape in February 02, jurors heard.
‘The other 17-year-old in interviews with police denied ever having sex with her or ever ejaculating on her tights,’ Miss CCotcher said.
Rodney told police he had seen the vctim once with a few youths.
‘He said she had started caressing him and rubbing him up, touching his private parts.
‘She had urinated, bent down, turned around and rubbed up against his privates and they just had sex.
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The trial continues
Ends
