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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A couple held two young boarders in their central NSW home, bashing and starving them and forcing them to do chores, a jury has been told.
The man and woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have pleaded not guilty to unlawfully detaining the two young men with intent to obtain advantage and occasioning actual bodily harm.
In his opening address at the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney on Thursday, crown prosecutor John Bowers told the jury the two men – who also cannot be named – were boarders in the home of the couple in central western NSW on two separate occasions between mid-2007 and August 2010.
He said the woman, aged 48, and her male de facto partner, 43, detained and psychologically controlled the men through a “regime of physical and mental abuse over an extended period”.
The court heard that shortly after moving into the home and agreeing to pay board, the men found their relationship with the pair quickly deteriorated.
In one instance, one of the alleged victims was repeatedly hit in the chest with an iron bar until he agreed with the female accused that he had stolen powdered milk, Mr Bowers said.
The court heard that the men were forced to do domestic chores, including vacuuming, caring for the couple’s three young children, and cleaning up after their pitbull terriers.
“If those weren’t done on time … she (the female accused) would beat these young men,” Mr Bowers said.
Both men, the court heard, were often only allowed three pieces of white bread during the day, with dinner sometimes consisting of scraps from the children’s plates.
The young men – aged around 18 and 25 at the time – were left so “overwhelmed and intimidated” that “they believed they had no choice but to continue to stay”, Mr Bowers said.
Under threat of violence, he said both men had signed documents while in the house stating that they had committed certain crimes, such as molesting the couple’s children and stealing food.
When the first young man was eventually forced out of the house in 2009, the court heard that he made a complaint to police which was later withdrawn.
A police investigation of the couple didn’t begin until August 2010 when the male accused made a complaint about the second boarder, telling them, “That prick has been fiddling with my kids,” Mr Bowers said.
After being taken to the police, the second boarder was then taken to hospital for emergency treatment, with fractures to his ribs, jaw and spine and – at 43kg – showing symptoms of “severe malnutrition caused by starvation”, Mr Bowers said.
But defence counsel for the male accused, John Stratton SC, told the jury to withhold their judgment until they heard the whole story.
“The picture which will emerge is one very different to the account that (the complainants) will relate to you,” Mr Stratton said.
The trial before Judge Peter Zahra continues.
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