A 28-year-old man was forced to watch his mother being raped in revenge for an alleged rip-off, a jury in the High Court at Auckland heard yesterday.
In her opening address, prosecutor Kirsten Gray said the "rampage" of brutality and degradation lasted 12 hours.
"The woman truly believed that neither she nor her son would live to see the light of day," she told the court.
The 58-year-old woman was allegedly raped repeatedly and forced to perform a sexual act.
Before the court is Kalvant Karl Singh, 40, of New Lynn who denies three charges of rape, six of unlawful sexual connection, one attempted sexual violation, two kidnappings, three assaults with a weapon, two supplying the class A drug methamphetamine and one of possession of equipment to manufacture the drug.
He pleaded guilty to kidnapping the woman's son, causing him grievous bodily harm, assaulting him with a knife, and possession of a pistol.
The woman, who said she had been like a mother to Singh, told the jury that she heard her son's jaw break when Singh kicked him as he lay bound and gagged on the floor at Singh's apartment.
Ms Gray told the jury that Singh was obsessed, fixated and paranoid in the belief that the woman's son, who has name suppression, stole his money and slept with his girlfriend.
The amount was variously put at $5000, $25,000, $30,000 and $60,000.
Both the mother and son were said to have bought drugs from Singh.
Ms Gray said that Singh threatened to "slice" the mother unless the son told him where the money was and said he would have sex with her as often as he could to "make up for the missing cash".
Others were present at Singh's apartment, but he had a knife and gun and threatened them.
The mother, sometimes barely audible through her anguished tears, told the jury that Singh took a Viagra pill and told her son he was going to have sex with her.
"My son, his face smashed and bleeding, started crying and said, 'No, no, no'."
Singh also allegedly threatened to violate the son with a vibrator.
The woman told the jury that while her son was tied and bound, Singh ordered his (Singh's) girlfriend to hold the man's head up to make sure he watched his mother, who had been forced to strip naked, being raped.
Singh ordered his tearful girlfriend to hold the man's eyes open.
The trial, before Justice Simon France, is expected to last until the middle of next week.
Mother raped in revenge court told
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