Marc Oliver Cox charges continue as details emerge about alleged explicit photos

After meeting a woman online, a former SANFL player allegedly took secret explicit photos of her, sent them to her sister, and choked her until she passed out.

A former SANFL player allegedly used a dating site to court a woman before taking secret photos of her while she performed sex acts on him, a court has heard.

The details of the allegations Marc Oliver Cox, 39, faces were on Wednesday heard in the Adelaide Magistrates court, where a police prosecutor alleged the woman had no idea she was being photographed.

After taking the pictures, the court heard, Cox then allegedly sent them to the woman’s sister.

The prosecutor told Magistrate Jon Wells Cox also allegedly choked the woman to the point she passed out and twice went to her house uninvited and would not leave when asked to.

He said the pictures were allegedly taken by Cox when the woman was vulnerable.

Marc Cox faces a series of domestic violence related charges. Picture: Facebook

Marc Oliver Cox was granted “unusual” bail to visit his dying dad. Picture: Facebook

“During the course of the relationship he is alleged to have photographed an indecent act, and there is another photograph where he is having intercourse with the complainant,” he said.

“The (woman) claims she at no stage gave permission for those photographs to be taken.”

Cox handed himself into police in July and spent about four months behind bars on remand before he was granted “unusual” bail to visit his dying dad in hospital.

After having a week under his unusual bail circumstances, Cox was granted home detention bail.

He continues to face charges of indecent filming, distributing an invasive image, two counts of aggravated trespass, aggravated assault, and one count of choking a person in a domestic setting.

The court on Wednesday heard the choking charge would likely be downgraded to assault causing harm.

Cox, of North Haven, played SANFL league and reserves football for West Adelaide, Port Adelaide and Norwood before bumping around amateur leagues, representing Fitzroy, Salisbury North, Gepps Cross, Payneham Norwood Union, Echunga, Freeling, Virginia, North Clare and Jervois football clubs.

According to court documents, Cox is alleged to have committed the offences as far back as December at Paracombe.

And given the lag between December, and Cox’s latest court appearance, his lawyer Kate Budzynski asked Mr Wells for the charges to be dismissed.

“We’re now five months after (he was arrested in July),” she said.

Mr Wells said he was not prepared to dismiss the charges, but told the prosecutor he would likely do so if a charge determination had not been made by the time Cox next faces court.

No pleas have been made to the charges and he will next appear in February.