Colt Family incest case: Court hears father ‘laughed’ before alleged assault
The daughter of a man from a notorious NSW family accused of incest and horrific child sex abuse told police he had assaulted her with a “stick”, a court heard.
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A member of a notorious NSW family accused of horrific incest allegedly “laughed” as he sexually abused his own daughter, a court heard.
Charlie Colt, a pseudonym, was arrested in April 2018, nearly six years after authorities removed malnourished, illiterate and inbred kids from the squalid farm where he was living with nearly 40 relatives.
In 2012 police interview footage played at his Downing Centre District Court trial, Charlie’s then six-year-old daughter said he “laughed” as he molested her with a “stick” at the isolated property in the state’s south.
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Nadia Colt, whose dad Charlie and mother Martha Colt are brother and sister, cried after telling officers her underage brothers also abused her.
“It hurt,” she said.
“They’re not doing the right things.”
The court heard after the child’s teenage brother lured her into a tent on the farm and attacked her, she told her mum, who advised her not to play with him anymore.
The girl had never been to school before she was taken into care, and had developmental delay and cognitive difficulties, the court heard.
In December the child gave evidence at Charlie’s judge-alone trial that she couldn’t remember her dad abusing her.
But while testifying again in July, the now 14-year-old clarified she had mistakenly thought her pre-recorded evidence would be played to a jury, and denied the attack out of shame.
“(I thought) there was going to be a jury and I didn’t feel comfortable to admit it,” she said.
“I was embarrassed to admit it did happen.”
Charlie has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 10.
In June prosecutors dropped 25 charges against the 47-year-old, and withdrew a raft of similar child sex offences against Cliff, and Frank Colt.
In June Frank was found guilty of raping his teenage niece Petra Colt in 2010, and he will be sentenced later this month.
Charlie’s trial continues.