-Caveat Lector- In short, he denies everything: http://www.theage.com.au/news/20001027/A9743-2000Oct26.html 'Rapes' all lies, says ex-MP By SUZANNE KLOTZ BRISBANE Friday 27 October 2000 Defending charges: Bill D'Arcy and his wife, Lois, leave the Supreme Court in Brisbane. Picture: ANGELA WYLIE Accusations that he had raped a young girl when he was a country schoolteacher were all lies, former Queensland Labor MP Bill D'Arcy told a court yesterday. "That's a lie and an outrageous one. I've no recollection of being in the library with her," Mr D'Arcy told the Supreme Court in Brisbane. Mr D'Arcy also denied allegations that he had pulled the girl on to his knee, unzipped his shorts and raped her as he sat on his desk in front of his class. "Well, I never wore shorts, it was against regulations," Mr D'Arcy said. "The dress code in 1963 was white shirt, slacks and a tie." Mr D'Arcy, who was the state MP for the southern Brisbane seat of Woodridge for 22 years until his resignation last January, has pleaded not guilty to 18 child-sex charges involving three girls and one boy between January, 1963, and July, 1965. The three counts of rape, 11 counts of indecent dealing with girls under 12 and four of indecent dealing with a boy under 14 relate to his time as the only teacher at the primary school in a tiny rural town in central Queensland. One girl, aged between seven and nine, was allegedly raped by Mr D'Arcy as he sat teaching in front of the class. The other complainants were allegedly molested in the library-storeroom or at his desk in front of the class. Mr D'Arcy, giving evidence in his defence yesterday, variously described the allegations against him as "ridiculous" and "untrue". He told the court the young girl he was accused of molesting from the time she was six would actually climb up of her own accord on to his knee. "On a few occasions she probably climbed up on my knee, or I put her on my knee," he said. He said it was an unusual occurrence to put a child on his knee and it only happened perhaps once every couple of months and sometimes the younger children would expect to be lifted up and it would all be in a "playful" context. Mr D'Arcy denied allegations from other students that he was always putting this one particular girl on his lap. However, he said it was normal for a male teacher at the time to put female students on their laps in the 1960s, and that not only teachers, but also inspectors would do it. Prosecutor David Bullock, cross-examining, accused Mr D'Arcy of lying and alleged he had made this girl his sexual plaything. "You were sexually interfering with her all the time. You were controlling her with fear and abusing her when you wanted," Mr Bullock put to him. "That's not true," Mr D'Arcy replied. When Mr Bullock asked him if he found putting a hand under the girl's dress, as was alleged, to be disgusting, Mr D'Arcy replied, "Well if you're trying to describe a sexual act, yes." Mr D'Arcy told the court he was well regarded in the tiny rural community as a teacher and also because he captained the Central Queensland cricket team at the time. He conceded that as a teacher he would have taught hundreds of children over the years, but said he remembered if the complainants were sickly and whether they ever went into the library or storeroom. The trial will continue today. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
