Two Canberra teenagers accused of raping a heavily drugged teenage girl in Canberra's south this year are now facing child pornography charges, accused of making a video of the alleged incident.
The two 18-year-olds, Kalonga Chifuntwe and Michael Vaughan, both of Monash, and a 17-year-old juvenile who cannot be named, were charged in August with sexually assaulting the girl in Monash in June.
All three deny the allegations.
At the alleged offenders' first court appearance, police said that mobile phone or video camera footage of the incident was being circulated among students at several Tuggeranong schools.
Investigators told the court that the alleged victim approached police the following month after being taunted about the existence of the video but police said that they had not located a copy of the footage.
But in the ACT Magistrates Court yesterday, Chifuntwe and Vaughan, who were already facing charges of sexual intercourse without consent in company, were charged with using a child in the production of child pornography.
It is also alleged that the girl, her friends and family have been subjected to a campaign of harassment, but it is not suggested that any of the three teenagers before the courts are responsible.
Police allege the girl was taken to the home of one of the alleged offenders and forced to have sex with all three of them.
Chifuntwe and Vaughan will face court again next month.