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Four held for alleged rape
FOUR members of a visiting rugby
league team participating in the SP Cup rugby league competition
are being questioned by police in relation to an alleged rape of a
young woman in Port Moresby yesterday morning. NCD police
confirmed that a report of an alleged rape was lodged yesterday
which resulted in the four league players, from the out-of-town
team which played at Lloyd Robson Oval on Sunday, taken in to the
Boroko police station where they were being questioned.
The senior executive of the company sponsoring the team when
contacted yesterday said he had heard a “rumour” of a rape
incident and was investigating it.
Police said the complainant, a 20-year-old woman (named), from
Pangia in Southern Highlands province identified the men soon
after the alleged rape at Konedobu along the Poreporena Freeway.
The police sexual offence squad (SOS) is investigating the alleged
rape and is looking into the medical report of the young woman.
The woman, in her complaint to police, stated that she was in the
company of a female friend and two male accomplices when they left
the premises of a prominent hotel (named) between 4am and 4.30am
yesterday.
As they were walking towards the Konedobu Oval, she alleged that
they were attacked by about four men who chased off the two men
and the female friend before they dragged her to the oval and
repeatedly raped her.
Attempts to get the PNG Rugby Football League (PNGRFL) chief
executive officer Jeff Wade and the chairman of the PNG National
Rugby Football League (PNGNRL) Thomas Higgins for comments were
unsuccessful.
This rape allegation comes a month after another serious incident
involving SP Cup players ń this one at Tokua Airport in East New
Britain province involving seven members of the Mioks team as they
were about to board their Air Niugini flight to Port Moresby.
The scuffle with Air Niugini staff and airport security at Tokua
put the PNG Rugby Football League and the PNG National Rugby
League, which oversees the SP Cup competition, in an embarrassing
situation.
The seven were arrested, charged and fined more than K2,000 when
they appeared before the Kokopo District Court for assaults after
being charged under the Summary Offences Act, and breaching CAA
regulations.
 
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