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David Shepherd
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Stupefied and raped two girls aged 13 and 14 while they were babysitting at his home
Other miscellaneous charges
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none known
Born 1968
At large in Auckland
Sentenced to eleven years in October 2000
Released June 2007
Background
NZ Herald story here.
More on his release here.
Although required to be paroled at two thirrds as sentenced under the Criminal Justice Act 1985, Victims not informed of his release despite being registered, and the hearing being held three months prior to that.
The Press (Christchurch), 13th September 2000
Two teenage girls were so drunk on bourbon they were vomiting before David
James Shepherd had sex with them, one of the girls has told the High Court.
The Crown says the girls were so drunk they could not give consent for the sex,
and that Shepherd raped them at his home.
The second complainant yesterday gave evidence of joining the first complainant
who was babysitting at Shepherd's home one night in December.
The 14-year-old said she arranged to meet Shepherd at a tavern where he bought her two bourbons before taking her to the house. The girls drank more bourbon at the house. The second complainant said Shepherd threatened to pour it down her throat if she did not drink it, and she drank about nine shot glasses. She said both of them vomited, and she found the other complainant lying on the bathroom floor, virtually unable to talk.
The second girl said she stripped when Shepherd told her to -- "I don't know why. I was just drunk and stupid." She said she ended up naked in Shepherd's bed, where he twice had sex with her. "I kept saying no, but it didn't matter," she said. She was in a "semi-black- out" at the time.
She told the court of eight more visits to Shepherd's house during the school holidays, to drink and smoke cannabis. She told of Shepherd giving her and the third complainant a cola drink with several drops in it from a little brown bottle. Shepherd called it a "liquid trip". Cross-examined by counsel for Shepherd, Stephen Hembrow, she said she was scared in the bedroom when the sex took place. "I know I said no, I didn't want to do it."
She would not accept that the alcohol she had drunk affected her memory of what happened. Mr Hembrow said that if the sexual events she recounted had really happened, she would not have kept going back to a house with a man she was scared of, who did things she found "repulsive and horrible". "I could not let (the first complainant) go back by herself," she said. "It's not that easy just to come out and tell someone about it."
She denied his suggestion that she made up the allegations against Shepherd for getting her into trouble over the drugs, and because she did not want to return to her home. She said she had previously had sex during a relationship with a youth several months before.
Shepherd, 34, a painter, has denied five charges of raping the girls, one of indecently assaulting one of them, six of stupefying them with intent to commit the sexual assaults, and one of having unlawful sexual connection with one girl. He also denies possessing and supplying the drug LSD, and selling cannabis. He has admitted three charges of supplying cannabis to the girls, and cultivating cannabis. The week-long trial is before Justice Chisholm and a jury.
Cross-examination of the first complainant, who said Shepherd had sex with her on the same night as the second girl, ended yesterday. She told Mr Hembrow the two girls had agreed not to tell anyone. "There are some things I could not tell my mum," she said. "I didn't want to talk about it. I was embarrassed." The incident with the two girls happened two days after Shepherd had sex with her after a session of drinking bourbon and smoking cannabis. She had then invited her friend to go with her on a second babysitting visit.
Mr Hembrow asked if she felt betrayed when she heard that her friend had also had sex with Shepherd. "I was surprised. I felt like it was all my fault." The third complainant, 13 at the time, said she had run away from home and stayed some time at the home of the first complainant. One of the girls invited her to Shepherd's house where he gave them cannabis. It was not the first time she had smoked cannabis.
She said she had gone to bed "really wasted" at Shepherd's place one night after smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol. She noticed she had a sore stomach, and blood in her underpants when she got up in the morning. She recalled a phone conversation with Shepherd in which he threatened to handcuff her and another girl to the bed on their next visit. Shepherd supplied a liquid fantasy drug she had one night. She said he talked of selling LSD, and preparing cannabis "tinnies" for sale, although she never saw any LSD or other drugs being sold.
He told her he was in a group and used to terrorise people by killing their animals, burning their cars, or beating them up. Cross- examined, she agreed that Shepherd wanted to make out that he was a bigger, meaner man than he really was.
In 2003 it was revealed rapist David James Shepherd fathered the son of prison officer Raewyn Houia while behind bars at Paparua Prison in Christchurch.
