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A ballet trainer was identified for sleeping with college students and had intercourse with one 16-year-old after giving her additional consideration at school, a courtroom heard yesterday.
Jonathan Barton, 41, was a ‘charismatic particular person’ who allegedly flirted with {the teenager} earlier than having intercourse along with her in his bed room and bathe on the residential college and at a hostel.
Yesterday the lady, now 35, described how she had consensual intercourse with him after he had grow to be ‘sensitive feely’ along with her at school.
She mentioned she had ‘fully admired’ her trainer and recalled him exhibiting her his dance medals after he invited her to his bed room.
However she was later left feeling ‘punished’ when he turned ‘chilly’ in direction of her, the courtroom heard.
A ballet trainer was identified for sleeping with college students and had intercourse with one 16-year-old after giving her additional consideration at school, Dumbarton Sheriff Courtroom (pictured) heard yesterday
She mentioned: ‘It turned clear he was sleeping with different college students.’
The girl mentioned she as soon as spent the evening in Barton’s room after a sexual encounter with him earlier than returning to the chalet lodging she shared with different ladies.
She added: ‘They undoubtedly knew. It was fairly frequent information that Jonathan would sleep with college students.’
Barton denies a complete of ten sexual offences in opposition to 9 former college students over a 15-year interval between 2004 and 2019.
Yesterday the lady advised Dumbarton Sheriff Courtroom that she joined the varsity in 2004 to work in direction of Royal Academy of Dance {qualifications}.
Barton would take a ‘arms on’ method to correcting pupils, she advised the trial.
‘I feel there have been boundaries that have been undoubtedly crossed when it comes to flirtatious behaviour, touching. Jonathan turned much more sensitive feely, a variety of additional consideration at school,’ she added.
The girl mentioned Barton had first kissed her after going to her chalet she shared to repair one thing and beckoning her outdoors to speak.
Requested by procurator fiscal Dana Barclay how she felt, she mentioned: ‘Confused, at that age, in all probability barely flattered. I assume he was fairly a charismatic particular person. It is like when somebody is making an attempt to flirt or attraction.’
They later allegedly had two sexual encounters, as soon as in his bed room and as soon as within the bathe.
As she gave proof about having intercourse on his mattress and on the ground, she mentioned she had obtained in after darkish by climbing a ladder to the again window.
She mentioned: ‘I imagine this was the time I used to be sat on his couch and he had some medals from a dance competitors.
‘He confirmed me them and I thoughts him saying, “Should you persist with me you would have one in all these your self”. With hindsight, it was somewhat creepy.
‘We talked, had a dialog after which obtained nearer, have been kissing and it led to having intercourse. I might say nervous was the over-riding feeling.
‘I should not be doing this however then once more you are younger and someone you fully admire is providing you with consideration so it is a tough feeling.’
She mentioned that on one other event that they had intercourse in his bathe. However there was later a ‘huge change’ in his angle.
‘I imagine his behaviour modified when he realised different folks knew. It made me really feel like I used to be being punished however I simply could not perceive fairly why,’ she mentioned.
However she mentioned that they had intercourse a 3rd time, in a hostel throughout a tour of the musical theatre present A Refrain Line.
Cross-examined by Gary McAteer, defending, she admitted she might have gotten her dates incorrect and accepted she had turned 18 by then.
Barton denies partaking in sexual exercise along with her when she was beneath 18 and whereas she was a scholar in his care and he was able of belief.
She insisted she had not been infatuated and denied having a ‘short-lived affair’ with him.
She didn’t full the three-year course on the college, as an alternative leaving early due to ‘extreme nervousness’.
The trial, earlier than Sheriff William Gallacher, continues.
