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<\/p>\nA Victorian primary school teacher allegedly groomed, indecently assaulted and made a boy sexually penetrate her in the late 1990s, a jury has heard.<\/p>\n
Warning: This story contains detailed descriptions of alleged child sexual assault.<\/p>\n
Nicole Anne Jones, formerly known as Nicky Cravino, is charged with 19 counts of indecent act with a child under 16 and one count of sexual penetration of a child under 16.<\/p>\n
Sexual assault\u00a0support lines:<\/p>\n
Prosecutor David O’Doherty told Latrobe Valley County Court that the alleged offending took place in 1999, when Ms Jones was 27 years old and working at a Gippsland Catholic primary school.<\/p>\n
The alleged victim, now in his late 30s, came forward in 2022 and Ms Jones was arrested, charged and suspended from teaching.<\/p>\n
Ms Jones, 54, has denied any wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.<\/p>\n
The trial, which began on Tuesday, heard Ms Jones had visited the boy’s house for dinner on a few occasions.<\/p>\n
Mr O’Doherty told the court she would tuck the child into bed, suck his earlobes and rub his legs and arms.<\/p>\n
The court heard the boy would sit on Ms Jones’s lap and that she took him to watch football and cricket games.<\/p>\n
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The trial is being held at the Latrobe Valley County Court. (ABC Gippsland: Jack Colantuono)<\/p>\n
The jury heard Ms Jones visited the boy in hospital, brought him chocolates and kissed him on the forehead.<\/p>\n
Mr O’Doherty told the court the boy’s former classmates said Ms Jones favoured him and that he was considered the “teacher’s pet”.<\/p>\n
‘Kissing’ game<\/p>\n
Ms Jones allegedly told the child she loved him and wrote a card to him that said, “Roses are red, violets are blue, if you were older, I’d marry you.”<\/p>\n
The court heard the former teacher touched the boy’s buttocks and genitals and would play a tongue and kissing game with him.<\/p>\n
Support for young people and familiesThe Butterfly Foundation<\/a>: National helpline 1800 ED HOPE (1800 33 4673), 8am-midnight (AEST\/AEDT), 7 days a week\u00a0ReachOut Australia<\/a>: Confidential online peer support for young people and online resources for wellbeingHeadspace<\/a>: Centres in each state and territory or check out eheadspace<\/a> for online supportThe Kids Helpline<\/a>: 24-hour support on 1800 55 1800Lifeline<\/a>: 24-hour support for all Australians on 13 11 14<\/p>\n Ms Jones took the boy shopping, spoiled him with gifts and took him to watch a movie, the court heard.<\/p>\n She allegedly told the boy she wished she could be with him and that “bad things” would happen if he ever told anyone about them.<\/p>\n Mr O’Doherty told the court that on another occasion Ms Jones exposed herself and rubbed up against the boy, who was only wearing boxer shorts, which eventually led to penetration.<\/p>\n The court heard the boy “felt he loved her” and went along with the intercourse.<\/p>\n Ms Jones also allegedly had “dry sex” with the boy in her car.<\/p>\n Defence barrister Paul Kounnas told the court Ms Jones denied any kissing or sexual contact with the boy.<\/p>\n “The defence is that none of these allegations happened. Not a single one,” Mr Kounnas said.<\/p>\n The trial before Judge Geoffrey Chettle is expected to run for about two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Victorian primary school teacher allegedly groomed, indecently assaulted and made a boy sexually penetrate her in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,375856,375860,375858,44,375855,375853,375854,375859,375857],"class_list":["post-801370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gippsland-primary-school-sexual-abuse-trial","tag-judge-geoffrey-chettle","tag-latrobe-valley-county-court","tag-news","tag-nicky-cravino","tag-nicky-jones","tag-nicole-anne-jones","tag-victoria-county-court","tag-victorian-treacher-accused-of-sexual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}