A woman accused of sexually violating one of the boys she was looking after on Child, Youth and Family Services' behalf has admitted performing oral sex on the 16-year-old.
The caregiver, who has interim name suppression, is charged with sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.
The boy, who had been placed in
the East Auckland home by CYFS, complained about his treatment in January.
But during a videotaped police interview screened in the Auckland District Court yesterday, the 39-year-old woman claimed that the boy had forced her to do it.
"I had endured a lot of violence from him and verbal abuse. I thought if I did what he asked he'd just leave me alone," she said.
The boy alleges he fell asleep on the woman's bed one night and woke to find his shorts and underwear pulled down around his knees.
He told police he realised what the woman was doing and warned her she could get into big trouble. He allegedly asked her to stop.
But the woman told Constable Lynley Tubman it was she who had warned the boy of the trouble it would cause.
"He told me and instructed me on what to do," she said. "I was feeling quite disempowered then and I said to him ... the whole thing was wrong but I couldn't stop."
The depositions hearing, before Judge Lindsay Moore, was told the woman frequently offered to give the boys in her care massages using her aromatherapy massage oil.
Other witnesses would also testify to having seen her in bed with one or more boys on several occasions.
But the woman told Constable Tubman her room was "like Grand Central Station" and the boys often came in wanting to talk.
The East Auckland home was closed after the allegation was made and the woman, represented by lawyer Christopher Harder, has subsequently been caring for the intellectually disabled.
During her interview with police, the woman said she had wanted to leave the home after the incident but there was no one to replace her.
"Part of the problem is when you get community organisations and trusts like ourselves that are under-resourced and under-paid. You don't have properly trained support teams to back up."
The depositions hearing will resume today.
