AUSTRALIA
Queensland Times
Geoff Egan 23rd Apr 2014
AN IPSWICH pastor “had a guilty passion” for the best friend of his 12-year-old daughter an Ipswich jury has heard.
Crown prosecutor Sal Vasta yesterday told the court the 51-year-old man, who is standing trial for raping and maintaining a sexual relationship with his daughter and her best friend in 2004 and 2005, had an “unnatural sexual attraction” to the friend.
An Ipswich jury yesterday heard the closing arguments from Mr Vasta and defence lawyer Geoff Seaholme.
The man, who cannot be named so as to not identify the girls, has pleaded not guilty at the Ipswich District Court to a raft of child sex offences including rape and maintaining a sexual relationship.
Mr Vasta told the jury the evidence of the best friend had remained uncontradicted by sworn testimony throughout the trial.
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