In a district court yesterday, one man pleaded guilty to raping her and the other, to outraging her modesty.

To protect her identity, the parties cannot be named.

Court documents said she had gone to a party, where she met her boyfriend, who was also invited.

Later, the couple joined the host and two of his friends, both 21, for a card game in which the loser of each round had to drink a glass of whisky. The girl, an unseasoned drinker, soon became drunk. At her boyfriend's suggestion, she went to a bedroom to sleep it off.

Early the following morning, the host's two friends entered the bedroom and shut the door.

One of them first kissed her and molested her as she lay sleeping. The man, who is married with two young children, then took off her underwear and proceeded to rape her. The other man also kissed her and fondled her breasts.

Shocked, the girl woke up but was so drunk that she could do little to resist their advances.

After a while, the pair left the room and the girl fell asleep again.

When she awoke, she burst into tears and told her boyfriend - who had been in the next room all the time - what had happened. She was then taken to a hospital for a check-up and a police report was lodged.

A day later, the two men met the girl to apologise and plead with her to withdraw her complaint against them. She refused to give them an answer.

The men then set up another meeting to persuade her to tell the police that she had consented to their advances. It was the only way to 'settle the matter', one of them told her.

The girl's boyfriend tipped off the police to the meeting, and the pair were arrested.

They will be sentenced on Dec 3.

In a district court, a person convicted of rape faces up to 10 years in jail and either a fine or caning. A person convicted of molestation can be jailed for up to two years and caned.

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