Former Waipukurau St John ambulance officer Christopher Roger King, 47, is on trial at the Napier District Court this week facing eight sex charges, including the sexual violation, stupefying and making intimate visual recordings of a then 15-year-old girl.
King denies all accusations, made by four female complainants, aged 15 to 57, between January 2010 and June 2013.
Today the court was presented with video surveillance taken as the the youngest complainant arrived at the Waipukurau Medical Centre on July 24, last year after receiving injuries from a domestic incident with her boyfriend.
The teenager, now 16, had called 111 asking for medical assistance for her injuries to her ribs and head.
This morning, the court was also played the distressed emergency call from the teen as well as two other audio recordings of King communicating with St John staff via phone and radio as he drove the ambulance to the CHB town.
Crown prosecutor Steve Manning said the ambulance transporting the injured teen travelled for 10 minutes before stopping on the side of the road near Waipawa, according to GPS tracking evidence. It was there, during a 10-minute window between 3.10pm and 3.20pm, that the teenager was first violated and administered Entonox, a pain-relief gas, the Crown alleges.
The teenager said King told her to "keep having the [gas]", despite at this stage feeling little pain from her injuries.
She added that the Entonox acted quickly and remembered King pulling her pants down, playing with her breasts and taking videos with his phone as she became disorientated.
Crown witness and Hawke's Bay District Health Board security manager Robert Thorpe today said video footage shows King's ambulance arriving with the teen at the medical centre at 3.26pm.
He said the 4.40 minute video ends when "you see the courier driver leaving the health centre. Then you see a female running ... and into the courier driver's arms".
The courier driver later gave evidence and said: "The back door of the ambulance flew open and a young girl jumped out."
He said the teen was "wailing quite loudly" and "distraught" as she said screamed,"keep him away".
The medical centre's receptionist also said she recalled the teen reported being assaulted
The teenage complainant, who spent much of yesterday and this morning on the witness stand, said King was "touching me in the places he shouldn't be" and continuously told her to "keep sucking on gas" in an attempt to keep her sedated.
She recalled waking inside the ambulance at the front doors of the medical centre with King groping her.
A police investigation was launched after the incident, resulting in the other three complainants coming forward, all of whom had called 111 asking for medical assistance, including a woman who was terminally ill and had since died.
King's lawyer, Bill Calver, said the defence's argument was that the scenarios put forward by the complainants simply did not happen and that King had "performed his duty professionally, competently but, above all, lawfully".
The Crown also alleges King deleted the intimate videos of the teenage girl on his cell phone, however the former ambulance officer denies the claim.
Mr Manning told the jury during his opening address that the Crown had "digital footprint" evidence showing King, in fact, did delete the videos as the teen ran from the ambulance.
He said CCTV footage also shows King "putting a black object into his top left hand pocket" after exiting the ambulance at the medical centre.
The remaining complainants are expected to give evidence during the trial, which Judge Geoff Rea indicated would continue until next week.
By Sam Hurley of the Hawke's Bay Today
