Two men have gone on trial over the rape and sexual assault of a teenage schoolgirl at a Stuart Flats unit last year.
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Kevin O'Rafferty, 42, and Jason Dodd, 40, are facing the ACT Supreme Court for allegedly sexually assaulting the 16-year-old while she was drunk and passed out on the couch of Dodd's unit in May last year.
Dodd and O'Rafferty have both pleaded not guilty, and deny any sexual acts ever took place.
The girl had gone back to Dodd's unit with a friend after a night of drinking in Woden on May 17.
The alleged victim had known Dodd for about two months.
She continued drinking at the flat before she passed out on a red couch.
The girl, whose friend left the unit at some point that night, woke to discover her top had been pulled up, her bra down, and all of the clothes covering the lower half of her body were gone.
The Crown, represented by prosecutor Sara Gul, alleges that Dodd and O'Rafferty were sexually assaulting her at the same time.
The girl was in shock, couldn't speak, and passed out again, the court heard. She told police she woke again to find herself being sexually assaulted and being raped by Dodd.
The next morning, she said she woke in a bed in a spare room by herself.
In recorded evidence, she said she was distraught, upset and angry at herself.
The girl went straight to school, prosecutors said, and told friends she needed to borrow a phone.
''Hey guys. Something happened to me last night. I didn't like it,'' she recalled saying.
Staff at the women's refuge where the girl was staying were called, as were the police.
Ms Gul said her distress had been clear to a number of people before she went to hospital.
She went to the Canberra Hospital, where she was examined at the sexual health clinic, and found to have abrasions and extreme tenderness.
In an interview with police later that afternoon, she said she had felt ''extreme pain'' after the sexual assault.
Police later found her DNA in the underwear of Dodd, the court heard.
A third unidentified man was also believed to be in the unit, but was never found by police.
The girl told police she had stayed at Dodd's unit before, and said he had been well mannered and very respectable.
In cross-examination, James Sabharwal, Dodd's defence barrister, put to the girl that no sexual acts had occurred with Dodd or anyone else that night, something she denied.
Mr Sabharwal also suggested to the girl that she had slept on a bed next to the couch where the alleged acts occurred.
The girl denied this, and also denied his suggestions she had told Dodd she was going to pick up ''bumpers'', or cigarettes, as she left the next morning.
O'Rafferty's barrister, James Lawton, pointed out inconsistencies in the girl's evidence about what his client was wearing on the night.
Mr Lawton also questioned her about whether she had thought the sexual assault was a dream, something she had said during her police interview the next afternoon.
The girl said she had only felt like it might have been a dream when she first woke up.
The jury trial continues before acting Justice John Nield.
