A girl has advised a court how aged 16 she had sex with her ballet teacher in his dance faculty bedroom after he invited her there below cowl of darkness.
The girl, now aged 35, advised jurors she additionally had sex with him in the bathe of his rooms, which included a bedroom, at the college in Argyll and Bute.
Jonathan Barton, 41, is on trial accused of getting sex with two college students whereas in a “place of belief” as a teacher at the college, and of sexual offences involving seven others.
He denies all the costs in opposition to him.
It’s alleged he had sex and engaged in sexual exercise on numerous events between September 1, 2004 and Might 20, 2006 with one of many alleged victims at the ballet faculty premises, in a automotive and in a resort room in Stirling.
The girl, who can’t be named for authorized causes, advised Dumbarton Sheriff Court that as a toddler she had a ardour for dance and joined the ballet faculty in September 2004 after auditioning.
The primary time Jonathan invited me as much as his room by a textual content and advised me to return in the night when it was darkish
Witness
She stated that Barton was one in every of her dance lecturers and that “boundaries had been positively crossed in phrases of flirtatious behaviour” in class, the place he would contact her when correcting her place.
The girl stated Barton first kissed her when he dropped by to see her in her chalet-style lodging at the college, and she or he first had sex with him on one other event in her first 12 months at the college when she was 16.
She stated: “The primary time Jonathan invited me as much as his room by a textual content and advised me to return in the night when it was darkish, so I simply went and climbed up the again window.
“Around the again of the home there was a wood patio with a ladder which led as much as Jonathan’s room, so I used that.”
The girl stated that they sat on the couch in his room chatting and this led to having sex on the mattress and on the ground.
She stated: “We talked, then acquired nearer, we had been kissing and it led to having sex.”
Fiscal Depute Dana Barclay requested how she felt in regards to the expertise, to which she replied: “Nervous, feeling I shouldn’t be doing this, however then you’re younger and someone you fully admire is supplying you with consideration, so it’s a very tough feeling.”
She advised the court that she had sex with Barton a second time in her second 12 months at the college in 2005, when she was 17 and that this time it happened in the bathe.
Nevertheless, she stated that after this his behaviour in direction of her modified and he turned “fairly chilly” and didn’t give her a lot consideration in class, which left her feeling “garbage, like I had been punished”.
She advised the court she had sex with him a closing time in lodging in Stirling when the ballet faculty was on tour performing a musical manufacturing.
The court heard that she left the college after her second 12 months and gave up ballet.
Requested by Ms Barclay the way it feels to be giving proof, she stated: “Nervous, indignant, very indignant, as a result of it brings again loads of feelings.”
Defence agent Gary McAteer confirmed jurors a flyer from the touring musical manufacturing the ballet faculty carried out in locations together with Stirling and identified the primary efficiency on the tour happened on June 22, 2006.
He stated the witness would have been 18 at this level, to which she agreed.
Mr McAteer stated: “You had been an grownup and also you had been entitled to consent if you happen to selected to take action,” to which she replied “sure.”
The fees, involving 9 teenage ladies, span a timeframe from 2004 to 2019.
The alleged victims had been aged between 16 and 18, with one aged below 16 however over 13.
Barton is accused of sexually assaulting six college students at the college, one in every of whom he’s additionally accused of partaking in sexual exercise with.
He additionally faces a cost of partaking in sexual exercise apart from sexual activity with a seventh scholar.
The trial, earlier than Sheriff William Gallacher, continues.
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