Police have brought 25 fresh sexual assault charges against unregistered South Coast masseur Mark Anthony John Horsfall.
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The new charges relate to five more alleged victims of Horsfall, who have come forward since he was first charged with committing 30 counts of aggravated sexual touching and one charge of aggravated sexual assault against a female client at a Gerringong massage parlour in March.
The offences allegedly occurred between November 2020 and March 2021, with some of the women allegedly victimised just 24 hours apart from each other.
Most of the new charges are for sexually touching the victims without their consent, while they were allegedly under Horsfall's authority.
These include touching the breasts and groins of victims, as well as allegedly "licking [a] victim's vagina," and "kissing [a victim] on the lips and forced his tongue inside her mouth" and "slapping [a] victim's buttocks".
He now also faces one charge of aggravated sexual assault for allegedly forcing penetrative sex on a victim. The alleged offences occurred at Gerringong and at Culburra Beach, where Horsfall resides.
Horsfall was refused bail by Magistrate Claire Girotto at Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday, and his case was adjourned to June 30.
The court heard police expect up to eight more victims to come forward before then. Horsfall plead not guilty to the original charges.
At his first court appearance in March the court heard the first victim was massaged face-down for about an hour without incident, and that she was so relaxed she asked if her appointment could be extended.
The woman alleges Horsfall later pulled up her underwear like a G-string and complimented her buttocks - "it's lovely" before asking "will we take these [underwear] off?', to which she replied "no". She alleges he then violated her.
The woman told police she was motionless during the alleged attack. She said she was aware there were others on the premises but she felt so dissociated and shocked she could not alert them to what was happening.
Police say the woman became so distressed she hyperventilated when providing a statement the following day. In a police interview Horsfall admitted to engaging in sexual activity with the woman, but said he believed he had seen signs that she had become sexually excited during the massage.
Horsfall told police the woman "never said no". He said he became remorseful once the woman left, but only because he had "done the wrong thing" and had "broken the rules" by behaving as he had in the workplace.
In March Horsfall's lawyer said the charges against him would be "heavily defended".
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