Four men have been charged over the alleged Australia Day rape of a male friend with a beer bottle, which was only reportedly discovered by the victim when video was uploaded on Facebook, Seven News Brisbane reported.
The 19-year-old victim was allegedly assaulted while he was passed out unconscious from drinking at the party in Brisbane’s north this year.
Brisbane Inner-West District Child Protection detectives have charged three men over the rape and are expected to charge a fourth man tonight.
The victim and the four men have known each other since they were students attending the same Brisbane private school.
Police will allege one of the four men, a 19-year-old Brisbane university student ,posted the video of the rape online two days after the incident and then again six weeks later.
Police will also allege they have captured screen shots of three of the four men commenting and joking about the incident on Facebook.
Police will also allege the victim only became aware he was sexually assaulted after the university student sent him links to the videos on Facebook.
The student has been charged with one count of rape and two counts of distributing prohibited recordings and one count of distributing observations or recordings in breach of privacy.
The student has also been charged with a third count of distributing a prohibited recording over a separate incident in which he allegedly secretly took footage of him having sex with a teenage girl at Schoolies and posted it on Facebook.
Police allege the man posted the video shortly after the incident with the girl in December 2013 and then again this year.
The teenager, now 19, told police the man had contacted her to tell her he had posted pictures of their sexual encounter on Facebook.
Police will allege the footage of their sexual encounter was taken without the teenager’s knowledge or consent.
Earlier today detectives raided the homes of two men and have seized computers, phones and bed sheets in connection with the Australia Day attack.
A second and third man, both aged19, have been charged with one count of rape.
A fourth man, 21, is expected to be charged with one count of rape tonight.
The men will face the Brisbane Magistrate’s Court later this month.
