An alleged serial sex offender used his wife's sex toy on one of his eight complainants and another time made the same complainant watch him rape another teenager, the High Court at Timaru was told yesterday.
Former Oamaru Child Youth and Family home caregiver Frank Russell Walmsley (57) faces 101 charges, including 16 of rape involving eight teenagers. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from alleged incidents between 1995 and 2012.
The trial is nearing the end of its second week.
Between 1995 and 2000, Walmsley and his wife were caregivers at the Oamaru CYF home, where about 70 at-risk children were living. The jury watched a recorded police interview of the fifth complainant from May 5, 2014.
In it, she said the first time he raped her she was about 11. Walmsley was a family friend. In relation to this complainant, he faces 15 charges, including a representative charge of rape.
The alleged offences occurred from 2008-12.
‘‘He was about 50 when he done it to me. He made me have sex with him. It happened in several places, at quite a few houses.''
On one occasion, he used a black vibrator on her, she said. On another occasion, he tried to make another complainant, who is yet to give evidence, watch him have anal sex with her.
‘‘One time we went to Cape Wanbrow. He put a blanket on the ground and tried to do it [rape] to her and she wasn't listening, but eventually she gave in. Then he tried to get her to watch what he was doing to me but she didn't.''
Afterwards, he took the pair to a fast-food outlet.
She said on a couple of occasions Walmsley nearly got caught when his son came to a house they were in. He sent her to hide in the bathroom. She said he gave her gifts and also took photos of her genitals and breasts.
He also made her watch him rape another complainant on a number of occasions, she said. In the morning, Walmsley's wife Zena was asked if she had any sex toys. She confirmed she owned a black vibrator, which was presented as an exhibit to the court.
She recalled when she was told about the initial allegations from another complainant who was in their care at the CYF home. She was driving back from Invercargill. It was late January 2000.
She got home and Walmsley said he had called CYF but it was not going to be dealt with until Monday. She was asked by Crown counsel Andrew McRae if she discussed the allegations.
‘‘Not at the time. I was upset for Frank. I just wanted to know the girls were OK. I didn't really want to know at that stage.''
She did not ask him if the allegations were true.
‘‘I did not need to ask him if it was true because I knew Frank would not do that.''
The next morning, she got up to check on the girls in care and discovered they had run away.
‘‘We notified CYFS and the police.''
Walmsley told her he had bought the teenager who had made the allegations an expensive pair of jeans.
‘‘He told me he had brought her jeans and she had been pressuring him to buy them. I pushed him and told him he was a stupid person for doing it.''
She said the couple used condoms on some occasions.
Mrs Walmsley told the court she did not remember a discussion with a CYF worker about a teenage girl dressed up in a ‘‘naughty'' policewoman outfit. The CYF worker earlier said in evidence she visited the home and a teenage girl in care was dressed up in a ‘‘naughty'' policewoman outfit, described as sexually provocative.
She said she confronted Zena Walmsley about it.
Mrs Walmsley said: ‘‘I would not allow a teenager to dress like that.''
The father of the fifth complainant had been harassing her, she said, and a complaint was made to the police, who warned him under the Harassment Act.
As recently as a week before the trial he had harassed her, she said.
The trial continues today.