A woman has been convicted of sending death, torture, and mutilation threats to a man she accused of raping her.
She alleged the man used her debit card, without her permission, to run up a $600 booze tab as they hit bars and a strip club across Adelaide in 2017.
The woman, who can’t be named, claimed the man used the alcohol he bought her with her card to get her drunk enough to rape her when she blacked out.
The Adelaide District Court heard that when she got to his home he ‘laid me on a bed and I could hear buttons being undone, then I threw up and blacked out’.
An Adelaide woman has been convicted of sending death, torture and mutilation threats to a man she accused of raping her (stock image)
‘If I’m barely able to walk and I lose consciousness by the end of the night, how is that consensual?’ she told the court, according to Adelaide Now.
However, the court heard the man, who was engaged at the time, blocked the woman on social media in 2017 soon after they had sex.
Prosecutors alleged this rejection ‘stoked the fire of her building anger’, leading to a disturbing campaign of harassment against him.
The woman sent numerous threats of torture, mutilation and death to the man as well as his family using fake profiles on Facebook, he court heard.
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She threatened to desecrate the graves of the man’s deceased relatives, and even commit acts of cannibalism before sending images of beheaded and dismembered bodies.
The woman, who can’t be named, was found guilty in the Adelaide District Court of online harassment, namely using a carriage service to menace, harass, cause offence, threaten to cause serious harm or kill (stock image)
The woman offered sworn evidence that she had not harassed anyone on social media and denied suggestions she ‘acted out in anger’ towards
‘I was not angry enough to send those messages… I was not furious enough to send this content, no,’ she said in her evidence.
‘I had blocked him, I had no further contact with him.’
The woman was found guilty of using a carriage service to menace, harass, cause offence, threaten to cause serious harm, or kill.
But she was acquitted by a jury of an additional 12 counts of the same crime.
Auxiliary Judge Gordon Barrett remanded the woman on continued bail until next month, when a sentencing date will be set.
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