James Dorrin Hayward has pleaded not guilty to four offences relating to the alleged abuse of an eight-year-old girl.
Prosecutor Sean Stocks on Monday said the 53-year-old made the girl indecently touch him on three occasions at two homes while putting her to bed."He told police in an interview that he had fallen asleep on her bed," Stocks told the District Court in Perth during his opening.Hayward is also accused of showing the child how to search for pornography on the internet before her family discovered the alleged offences and reported them to police.
Hayward resigned from the WA Nationals after the charges were laid in 2021 but continued to sit in the state's upper house as an independent MP. He said it was an irrational decision that contained no reference to the substance of the allegations and instead addressed his wife's former warnings."He was in a complete state of shock on hearing of these sexual allegations, not because they were true but quite the opposite."
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