Title : 'Boys just wanna have sex': Cyndi Lauper invoked in ADFA rape trial
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'Boys just wanna have sex': Cyndi Lauper invoked in ADFA rape trial
The lawyer representing a former ADFA cadet accused of sexually assaulting a woman in his room has quoted the Cyndi Lauper song Girls Just Want To Have Fun during a testy cross examination of the woman who made the complaint.
Defence lawyer Stuart Littlemore is representing Sebastian Crago Ellis, 22, who is on trial for rape, attempted rape and acts of indecency, in the ACT Supreme Court.
Mr Littlemore told the court the corollary to the pop song's chorus was "boys just want to have sex", and that notion explained what was happening during the alleged incident.
In court today, he clashed with the alleged victim, accusing her of lying about the encounter in Mr Ellis's room in July 2016.
The woman admitted she did consent to some sexual activities, after agreeing to go back to his room at the ADFA when she met him at a Canberra nightclub.
However, she told Mr Ellis if they went to his room they could not have sex, as he did not have latex-free condoms.
The woman alleges Mr Ellis tried to do things to her she had told him she was not prepared to do in conversations on Facebook messaging.
Mr Littlemore challenged the woman with inconsistencies between her account and that of others she talked to at the time.
He described her explanations as self-serving and "absolute tosh".
Mr Littlemore also accused her of blackmail after she suggested to Mr Ellis that she would drop it if he would resign from the ADFA.
"You wanted to destroy him," Mr Littlemore said.
"You were out to and you are still out to destroy him."
The woman denied the statement, saying she wanted to protect other women and simply wanted him prosecuted for a crime against her.
Accused apologised in secretly recorded conversation
Earlier the court heard a conversation between the pair which the woman recorded covertly.
The two met at her room after Mr Ellis asked if he could come over to apologise in person.
In the recording, the alleged victim remonstrated with him.
"You did what you did because you did not respect me," she said.
"It shows that you didn't not listen or you did not care because it's not like I said it once.
"It felt like you knew very well what you were doing.
"Do you really think a guy does not know what he's doing when a girl says to him ... on the way home ... no?"
Mr Ellis apologised to the woman.
"I am pretty bloody disgusted with myself," he said.
"I should have known better than that.
"I feel terrible for what I did."
But Mr Littlemore has told the court when the woman said no Mr Ellis had stopped and there was no act without consent.
Separate biting incident called into question
In another exchange, Mr Littlemore tackled the woman's account that she had bitten Mr Ellis to stop him groping her in a nightclub a few weeks earlier.
"You bit him as a sexual act," Mr Littlemore said.
"No," the woman replied.
"It was inflicting pain so he would stop taking off my pants."
She then conceded she had touched his genital area, but said it was in retaliation.
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