A Napier woman has gone on trial charged with being a party to the alleged rape of her 15-year-old daughter 12 years ago.
The woman denied the charge yesterday at the start of the trial in Napier District Court, as did the man charged with the rape.
The man also denies disabling the girl by stupefaction in the hours before the alleged violation, and the woman denies supplying her daughter with methamphetamine to calm her down after she told her what had happened.
Both accused have interim suppression of name and identity pending the outcome of the trial which, with prosecution evidence completed yesterday and at least one defence witness to be heard, is expected to end today.
The complainant, now in her mid-20s, said that in late 2004 she was collected from her home in Napier and taken by the man to a cottage in Porangahau, about 100km away, despite her understanding she was going to a nearby address.
Worried by what faced her at the rundown cottage in the town - open nakedness of a couple in the cottage, drinking and drug-taking - she said she rang her mother to ask her to come and get her, but her mother assured her everything would be all right.