[taken from: Townsville Bulletin Online]
A MOTHER who coerced her virgin 15-year-old daughter to have sex with her 35-year-old boyfriend stunned a District Court jury yesterday when she said she was being blackmailed by the boyfriend who had photographs of her having sex with a dog.
The mother of four, who is serving a jail term for her role in the matter, was giving evidence on day two of the rape trial of her former de facto.
The man has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape and one of attempted rape.
Under cross examination from defence barrister Harvey Walters, the woman admitted that before she met the defendant, she had posted pictures of herself naked on the internet.
She admitted she sometimes met the men who contacted her, and agreed on one occasion while living in Cairns, had been in trouble for stalking one of those she met.
She said she met the defendant on the internet in mid-2003, and in person in Ingham for the first time in November of that year.
The woman said she and the man had got very drunk one night, and he had taken photographs on his mobile phone of her having sex with a dog.
The woman denied Mr Walter's suggestion that she was lying about being blackmailed, because she needed to make up an excuse for what she had done to her daughter.
The woman denied the suggestion, angrily replying that `if I needed an excuse, I could think up something better than doing something that was as disgusting and depraved as having sex with an animal'.
Mr Walters immediately asked her if that was the case, why did she voluntarily have sex with the same dog on a second occasion soon after the first, and again allowed herself to be photographed doing it.
"Because I thought I was in love, I don't know why, women do strange things when they think they're in love," the woman said.
As her relationship developed with the man, she learnt through his cousin that her new boyfriend was keen to have sex with her 15-year-old daughter.
When confronted with the allegation, the man denied it and she moved her family from Cairns to Townsville to be closer to the man.
She and her children eventually moved in with him in Ingham.
The woman said she approached her daughter to agree to his requests for sex because of the bestiality photographs he had threatened to put on the web.
She said the first time, in the early hours at the Ingham home, the man had demanded sex with the girl and she had got her daughter to go to their bedroom.
She said she sat outside in the gutter for about 40 minutes before going back inside.
The trail continues before Judge John McGill this morning.
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Yes. Absolutely yes. Its got incest. Its got bestiality. And its got blackmail. Why shouldn't this be a family to stay together???? Classic. Go world. You've done it again.
