A social media influencer has told a court she was ‘heartbroken’ and ‘very very down’ before she ‘did something very wrong’ by kissing a 14-year-old boy for 20 seconds.
The 46-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child under 16 years old.
On Friday, she told Sydney‘s Downing Centre District Court she had been ‘very very down’ and drinking when she approached the teen on an evening in mid- 2021.
A social media influencer who kissed a 14-year-old boy has told a Sydney court that she was ‘heartbroken’ and ‘very, very down’ before the incident occurred
The influencer said the pair were sitting together in ‘fairly close proximity’ when the boy told her to ‘cheer up’ before leaning in to kiss her on the neck.
‘We started kissing on the lips,’ she said.
‘He stopped and said very quietly ‘I love you’ and then I felt his erection on my leg.’
Crown prosecutor Emma Blizard alleged the 46-year-old woman then took off the teen’s clothes and engaged in oral and penetrative sex with him.
However, the influencer denied to the jury that it went further than a ‘short’ kiss which lasted no more than 20 seconds.
‘It felt so awkward and wrong that I basically, I was out of there,’ she said.
‘I got up, I stopped it, and then I walked (away).’
The woman told the court she had drunk up to one and a half bottles of red wine that evening, and she’d given ‘half a glass’ of wine to the 14-year-old.
The jury previously heard the boy estimated she’d consumed at least three bottles of wine during the afternoon and she had been dancing in front of him.
The matter which was heard at the Downing Centre Local Court (pictured) in Sydney on Friday heard the kiss lasted no more than 20 seconds after the boy allegedly approached her and told her to ‘cheer up’ before leaning in to kiss her on the neck
The court was shown a video of the influencer dancing, which was allegedly taken two hours before she climbed into bed with the teen.
In the video, the woman can be seen rubbing her hands up her body and lifting her black top to reveal her stomach.
She pouts at the camera while swaying her hips from side to side to the music.
The court previously heard the 14-year-old described the dance as ‘weirdly sexual’.
When he approached the influencer about the alleged sexual assault four days later, she told the jury she was ‘apprehensive’ and afraid of the consequences of being overheard.
‘I knew I did something very wrong,’ she said about the kiss.
When prompted by the teen, the woman denied they had kissed but then conceded to the court on Friday that she remembered the interaction.
When asked in court if alcohol had affected her memory of that night, she declared: ‘I remember everything, just about.’
‘What on earth were you thinking when you kissed him?’ her lawyer Phillip Boulten SC asked.
‘I don’t know,’ she responded.
The woman didn’t interact with the teen again until mid-2022, when he called her out of the blue to discuss ‘the night of the kiss’.
‘I immediately was shocked or confused. It was so in the past,’ she said.
Unbeknown to the influencer, the call was being lawfully recorded by police. Police had arranged for the teen to call her after he reported the sexual assault allegations weeks earlier.
‘I remember when we had sex right,’ the court heard the teen asked her during the call.
‘Well not really, I don’t remember it,’ she replied.
The woman told the court she had up to one and a half bottles of red wine on the night of the alleged incident in Sydney (pictured)
The influencer clarified she ‘absolutely I remembered I did not’ have sex with the minor, because ‘kissing isn’t sex’.
She admitted she had not been truthful and said she was ‘pacifying and neutralising’ the teen during the phone call out of fear he would go to the authorities with the ‘very serious false accusation’.
Her lawyer Phillip Boulten SC told the jury the prosecution must prove the sexual assault took place and the woman ‘does not have to prove her innocence’.
She will continue to give evidence before Judge Sarah Hopkins on Monday.
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