'Girl raped at music festival'

12 April 2012

A man raped a 16-year-old schoolgirl virgin as she slept in a tent alongside a friend at a rock festival, a court heard today.

The teenager woke to find a man was trying to put his hand inside her knickers, Reading Crown Court heard.

Chad Kaminski, 24, proceeded to have sex with her while more of her friends chatted outside the tent, oblivious to what was happening a metre away from them, the jury was told.

Kaminski, of Colsterworth Road, Tottenham, denies raping the girl on August 26 last year at the Reading rock festival.

The jury watched a video recording of an interview detectives conducted later that day with the teenager after she reported the attack.

She told them she woke at 3.30am in the two-man tent - with her girlfriend sleeping just inches away - and tried to push the stranger's hand away from her knickers, but he just pulled them off.

She said: "He ripped them, he was really forceful. He kept telling me I shouldn't make a noise and that we could do it the hard way or the easy way.

"I decided there was too much risk in me fighting back and that I should do what he said."

While he raped her in an ordeal lasting just a few minutes, she could hear some of her group of 15 friends chatting outside her tent.

"My friends were completely oblivious to the fact that I was in the tent being raped by this bloke," she said.

"I couldn't shout out or anything, so I just had to lie there. He just kept going and didn't seem to worry much about it.

"I was terrified because he told me I wasn't allowed to say anything. I didn't want to wake up my friend because I thought he might get violent."

Afterwards he fled and a black man she thought was one of his friends, and whom she had heard chatting with her friends outside, crawled into the tent.

He asked the teenager, who feared he was going to rape her as well, if she was all right, and then disappeared.

The teenager, who had recently passed her GCSEs, had earlier seen bands Supergrass and the Manic Street Preachers before having a midnight barbecue with friends.

She said she retired to her tent with a friend exhausted at 2am on the bank holiday Saturday and fell asleep in her unzipped sleeping bag with the tent left open.

She said she told another girl about the attack a few minutes after it happened and they told two policeman they found on site.

Nigel Daly, prosecuting, told the jury that Kaminski was arrested about six weeks later, but refused to answer detectives' questions.

DNA tests on Kaminski by forensics found a one in a billion match with semen found on the girl.

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