Hughes denied that, saying he slept naked and often used the bathroom at night but would never walk into the room where the girls were staying.
His swimmers were pulled down.ĭuring the trial the court heard of sleepovers at Hughes's home where the actor would walk naked into the room where the girls were sleeping and expose himself to them. The other was nine when Hughes told her to swim between his legs at Manly Beach. The youngest of the two victims who Hughes indecently assaulted was seven when Hughes put her hand on his genitals. The court heard Hughes sexually assaulted one woman when she was 14 or 15 years old in her own bed. The nine charges he was found guilty on related to three of the five alleged victims.Īs the verdicts were read out Hughes stood up in the dock and yelled: 'I am innocent'. Hughes had pleaded not guilty to the 11 charges that he either sexually or indecently assaulted five girls between 19.
Actor Robert Hughes convicted of child sexual assault (Claire Aird)
