James Robert Davis: Police interview witnesses in alleged sex slave cult case

Detectives will rely on the accounts of 70 witnesses as part of their investigation into a former soldier turned BDSM “cult” master charged with keeping women as sex slaves.

Detectives will rely on the accounts of 70 witnesses as part of their investigation into a former soldier turned BDSM “cult” master charged with keeping women as sex slaves.

Armidale man James Robert Davis was charged in March with reducing a person to slavery, possessing a slave and causing a person to enter and remain in servitude.

The charges relate to his alleged physical, sexual and psychological abuse of a woman at his then Maroubra home, between 2012 and 2015.

James Robert Davis has been charged with reducing a person to slavery, possessing a slave and causing a person to enter and remain in servitude.

On Wednesday, a Commonwealth prosecutor told the Central Local Court detectives were being “realistic and pragmatic” about the volume of evidence they had to gather and asked for a 12-week adjournment.

The court heard detectives were conducting forensic examinations on six exhibits, including mobile phones, emails, cameras and computers.

The case was adjourned to July 28 to give detectives time to gather evidence and collect the statements.

Mr Davis was not required to appear on Wednesday but was ordered to appear at the next appearance via video link.

James Robert Davis has just been arrested and charged with keeping slaves at his home in Armidale.

James Robert Davis is a former soldier.

Police will allege in court Mr Davis was the leader of a polyamorous “cult” called ‘House of Cadifor’, where he lived with six women at a rural property near Armidale.

Police allege the women signed slavery contracts to be in his “possession”.

Davis’ instructing solicitor Bianca Barns told The Daily Telegraph outside court the women remained in support of him.

He has remained behind bars since his arrest by Australian Federal Police officers on March 11, and is currently housed at Parklea Correctional Centre.

A source has told The Daily Telegraph he is being kept in a separate ward to the general prison population due to his previous employment as a correctional officer.

He is due to apply for bail in the Supreme Court on June 9, after a release application in March was refused.