Rape victim of jailed New Zealand hip-hop group speaks out

The victim of two New Zealand hip-hop identities who were jailed last week for rape has spoken out about her ordeal.

The Tauranga District Court sentenced Peter Chambers, 42, and Mark Arona, 40, to 8½ years each.

A jury last October found them guilty of one charge each of sexual violation by rape and sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.

Chambers aka DJCXL and Arona aka MC Patriarch both belong to East Auckland hip-hop group Ill Semantics.

Patriach is also CEO and co-founder of label/entertainment group Illegal Musik, which has a distribution deal with Warner Music, and launched the careers of boy band Titanium and chart topping R&B singer J Williams, as well as rappers, rock bands and R&B singers.

The victim, who cannot be identified, testified that she had too much to drink, and passed out after toking on a marijuana joint.

She woke up in a motel room to find the two men violating her.

She couldn’t resist them because she “felt like a rag doll”.

The two men insisted through the trial that sex was consensual, while their legal term had pained her as a "skimpily dressed" "groupie in every sense of the word", who had initiated the encounter.

The woman told The Bay of Plenty Times she wanted the pair to admit what they had done, and hoped it would give other women who’d undergone similar experiences and “the next generation of girls” the courage to speak out.

"Lots of people are feeling happy about the sentence these men received,” she told the newspaper.

“But I just feel like a broken mess as, despite their denials, this still happened to me.

"It’s something I will have to live with for the rest of my life.

"Once the trial was over I tried to put this all into a jar and close the lid forever.

“But now it feels like the jar has been opened again and it’s all come flooding back to me.

"I can’t be happy until these men admit what they did to me and apologise."