February 01, 2004
Baton used for sex, officer told
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A former Rotorua policewoman says the police baton she lost in the mid-1980s was returned to her by a policeman who said it had been used for deviant sex on a young girl. Aucklander Carolyn Butcher was a police officer in Rotorua serving in the same squad as Bob Schollum, one of three men accused by Louise Nicholas of raping her and violating her with a police baton in about 1986. The three men - Mr Schollum, Auckland police chief Assistant Commissioner Clint Rickards and Tauranga city councillor Brad Shipton - last week issued renewed and vehement denials of the allegations. All were police officers at the time of the alleged incident. In 1995 an inquiry found that former head of Rotorua CIB, John Dewar, had failed to record or investigate properly Mrs Nicholas' allegations that she had been raped by the men and violated with a baton.Posted by stupefied
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