A woman who made a sexual assault complaint as a teen says her trust in police has been shattered after she was sexually abused by the detective investigating her case.
Glen Coleman, 58, was in May found guilty of abusing his position as an officer by sexually touching the 19-year-old woman twice without her consent between March and May 2022.
Once in an interview room at Windsor police station and once at a nearby park, Coleman asked to see the woman's breasts and then touched them without her permission.
The married former detective admitted pursuing the victim and asking her for sexual favours in exchange for money after he found out she had gone for an interview at a strip club.
He attended the club to see her dance and, on one occasion at the police station, placed $70 on the interview room table before they had sex.
A jury acquitted him of three counts of rape and four further counts of sexual touching without consent.
At Parramatta District Court on Friday, Coleman sat in the dock wearing a black pinstripe suit jacket and a rumpled white shirt, supported by his wife and a younger woman who dabbed away tears.
The 58-year-old mostly stared at the judge while his victim described how he had taken things that others had done to her in the past and subjected her again to that kind of abuse.
“I don't understand why I wasn't kept safe and it has shattered my trust in the police," the woman said, tearfully.
“I told you all of my heart, all of my pain, and the information should have been safe with you but instead you used it to take advantage of me.”
She said she struggled with panic attacks and anxiety in a body that did not feel like her own.
"I can't escape my own body but the feeling I get from remembering you makes me want to burn my skin off,” the woman said.
Crown prosecutor Kate Nightingale told the sentencing hearing that Coleman regularly tried to minimise his criminality by alleging the woman saw him as a "cash cow", voluntarily lifted her dress to show him her genitals and had "played him" with her claims.
His suggestions the woman agreed to have sex with him for $70 in the interview room should be rejected, Ms Nightingale said, because she texted him floating a much higher price of $600.
Defence barrister Joel Brook said the $70 was reasonable because the woman agreed to perform sexual acts with Coleman for a short duration.
The sentence hearing has been adjourned while psychological reports are compiled.
Mr Brook will be urging the court to release his client on an intensive corrections order, essentially serving any jail time in the community.
He said he would be seeking a report on the viability of home detention, community-service work and electronic monitoring.
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