AAP General News (Australia)
02-19-2007
Qld: Ex-Energex boss denies child sex allegations
Former Energex chairman ROSS DUNNING has denied he climbed into a bed and sexually
assaulted a teenager .. in central Queensland almost 40 years ago.
The 64-year-old has pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane District Court to five counts
of unlawful indecent assault .. allegedly committed in 1968 at his house in Gladstone
against a then 16-year-old boy.
Under cross-examination today .. DUNNING has dismissed an allegation he returned home
late from work to find the boy .. who lived next door .. in a bed in his house.
Prosecutor BRENDAN CAMPBELL has told the court the boy .. now aged 54 .. stayed over
at DUNNING's wife's request .. because she hadn't wanted to be alone.
But DUNNING's told the jury the boy never stayed over while he was at home .. and that
he never climbed into the boy's bed naked before sexually assaulting him.
He has admitted tutoring the teenager for his electrical apprenticeship .. and says
it's possible they could have been alone together at these times.
The hearing continues before Judge MILTON GRIFFIN.
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KEYWORD: DUNNING (BRISBANE)
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