A rugby participant and cheerleader despatched a photograph of his penis to a 15-year-old woman and requested her for nude pictures earlier than he allegedly sexually assaulted her in his automobile, a court docket has been instructed.
Connor Lind, 23, is going through trial in Sydney‘s Downing Centre District Court docket after denying he engaged in sexual acts with a 14-year-old woman and a 15-year-old woman.
He has pleaded not responsible to 4 counts of getting sexual activity with a toddler and one rely of deliberately sexually touching a toddler.
On Monday, the jury was instructed Mr Lind had despatched a photograph of his penis to the 15-year-old woman and requested her for nude pictures of herself earlier than he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
23-year-old Connor Lind confronted the costs at Sydney ‘s Downing Centre District Court docket
In her prerecorded testimony performed to the court docket on Monday, the then-teen stated she had acquired the image on Snapchat.
‘I used to be shocked,’ she stated.
‘I did not anticipate it.’
The complainant stated she could not bear in mind ever ‘being flirtatious, purposely flirtatious, in direction of (Mr Lind).’
The court docket was instructed the 15-year-old later discovered herself alone in a automobile with Mr Lind, who she claims kissed her and put his hand down her pants.
She stated the then-20-year-old had touched her vagina and supplied to tug down her underwear earlier than asking her for ‘only one lick’.
‘Please,’ the complainant stated Mr Lind requested her.
She instructed police ‘I used to be identical to ‘no’, and it stored going’ in an interview referenced in court docket.
When pressed by Mr Lind’s barrister Lisa-Claire Hutchinson on whether or not she had verbally objected, the complainant remained adamant she had stated ‘no’ greater than as soon as.
‘I stated no however I am unable to bear in mind what number of instances,’ the complainant stated.
She stated she afterwards regretted not bodily intervening by doing one thing like ‘pushing him away’ when Mr Lind touched her.
‘Wanting again and realising what occurred, I felt sick and I regretted every little thing,’ the complainant defined.
Mr Lind was 20 years outdated on the time of the alleged incidents with the teenage woman
Mr Lind together with his barrister Lisa-Claire Hutchinson exterior of court docket right this moment
The 15-year-old had been a ‘bit tipsy’ however ‘not drunk’ on the time of the alleged sexual acts, her good friend instructed the court docket.
The good friend stated the complainant instructed her later that night time that she and Mr Lind had ‘attached’ in his automobile and confirmed a hickey on her ‘decrease chest’ as proof.
The complainant testified she had instructed her buddies that she stated ‘no’ to Mr Lind’s alleged sexual advances, however her good friend stated she could not keep in mind that element of their dialog.
The good friend agreed with Ms Hutchinson’s recommendations that she most likely would have remembered the complainant telling her the intercourse acts have been non-consensual and it might have prompted her to inform a dad or mum.
The complainant had been ‘fairly impartial’ when telling her buddies in regards to the alleged sexual acts with Mr Lind, her good friend instructed the court docket.
Mr Lind has denied having any sexual contact with the 15-year-old or a 14-year-old woman with whom he’s accused of getting intercourse.
The Crown prosecution alleges he engaged in anal, oral and digital intercourse with the underage woman when he was 19 years outdated.
Mr Lind can also be accused of placing his hand down the 14-year-old woman’s pants whereas they have been spooning on the sofa at his mother and father’ home.
A witness instructed the court docket they’d been having a sleepover when she ‘heard noises’ and appeared over to see Mr Lind’s hand between the woman’s legs.
The trial will proceed on the Downing Centre District Court docket on Tuesday
In texts learn out in court docket, the witness instructed her mum that the 14-year-old was ‘on high of him’ earlier than telling her ‘he is bought his palms down her pants’.
‘I can hear s**t. I am shaking,’ she wrote.
Her mom responded it was ‘twisted’ and got here to gather her.
Mr Lind was arrested at Sutherland Police Station in August 2021 and doesn’t deny realizing that the ladies have been 14 and 15 on the time.
Ms Hutchinson has argued that on the time her consumer was a promising rugby union participant and college scholar and he had ‘each purpose to uphold the regulation’.
The trial will proceed earlier than Choose John Pickering on Tuesday.