A woman who alleges a family friend sexually abused her throughout her teens says he told her not to tell anyone because ''what happens in Canberra stays in Canberra''.
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The alleged victim, who is now 30 years old, told a jury Michael Alan Gillard took photos of her nude in her early teens, saying he wanted to track her physical development.
But Gillard's barrister pointed yesterday to inconsistencies between the complainant's version of events given to police and her evidence in court.
Gillard is standing trial in the ACT Supreme Court on an indictment containing 19 charges of a sexual nature - some offered as alternatives to others - ranging from having sexual intercourse with a child to committing an act of indecency.
But the 57-year-old has pleaded not guilty, and the defence has previously suggested the only sexual contact between the two occurred after she reached the age of consent.
The prosecution has alleged the incidents occurred when the alleged victim and her sisters stayed with Gillard during successive Christmas holiday periods in the 1990s, and ended in 2000 when the woman was 18.
The accusations against Gillard range from digital penetration and attempted anal penetration with a dildo to forcing her to give him oral sex in front of her younger sister.
The complainant yesterday said Gillard took Polaroid photos of her naked while her sisters were at the store buying ice cream in January 1994. ''I kept telling [Gillard] I didn't want my photo taken, I was feeling really uncomfortable and he kept saying it was going to be okay.''
Under cross-examination from lawyer Ken Archer the witness admitted she was 12 at the time of the alleged photo incident, rather than 13 or 14 as previously stated.
The photos have not been located by investigators, although Gillard is accused of possessing child pornography in relation to other images of the alleged victim.
The witness yesterday told the jury she didn't report the matter until 2007, when she confided in a room-mate.
She said she was worried about the reaction from her father, who she said once struck her and called her a slut after he found Gillard kissing and hugging the witness, then aged 11.
Mr Archer asked why her father's outburst wasn't detailed in her initial statement, and the witness said she mentioned it to police.
The lawyer also queried why, on earlier occasions when the pair were allegedly on the couch together, the witness didn't raise the alarm to her sisters who were in the same room.
The alleged victim said Gillard threatened to ''love'' her younger sister if she stopped loving him, warned her ''what happens in Canberra stays in Canberra'' and told her no one would believe her.
The woman also told the court Gillard forced her to perform oral sex on her as the younger sister looked on in January 1999, when she was 17.
Under cross-examination, she acknowledged there was a three-year gap between the 1999 incident and the previous incident.
She said she and at least one of her sisters visited Gillard in Canberra every school holidays from 1992-93 to 1999-2000, and she was abused each time, but she couldn't remember details of all the events.
The cross-examination is expected to continue before Chief Justice Terence Higgins today.
