Rolf Harris’ creepy chat with teen girl revealed in new court case

Rolf Harris’ lawyer has admitted that the shamed entertainer asked a young girl if “she liked to be molested on a Saturday morning”.

Harris, who was released from prison last week after serving about half of his five-year sentence for other sex crimes he was convicted of in 2014, was back in court overnight on four charges on indecent assault against three teenagers between 1971 and 1983, the BBC reported.

The 87-year-old has denied the charges, but his lawyer acknowledged that the entertainer had made a “joke” about molestation with one of the girls who’ve since accused him of assault.

“I don’t dispute on Mr Harris’s behalf he may have said something to you along the lines of ‘do you like to be molested on a Saturday morning?’ or something like that,” the lawyer said to one of the complainants, who was aged 13 at the alleged offence. “But he would have said that in a jokey fashion, while maybe marching you up and down the corridor?”

The woman denied that was the case, answering, “No, absolutely not”.

“I fail to see, whether it is said to a group or a single child, how that can be misconstrued as a joke in any way,” she added, according to the BBC.  The woman alleges that Harris groped her breasts after filming a children’s TV program on the BBC; as a teenager, she was a keen artist and had idolised Harris for his art skills.

The woman also refuted suggestions that she had only made the allegations in 2014 of an assault she said took place in 1983 because she was seeking financial compensation.

Speaking of the decision to make an assault allegation, she said, “It is quite a decision to make, to come forward when you haven’t been believed by members of your own family and others”.

The trial is ongoing.

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