Kafataris allegedly used a bamboo stick to hit the buttocks of one of the students, who was 15 years old at the time.Kafataris allegedly gave one student a card and necklace for her 16th birthday and told her they were “two pieces of a puzzle” and reincarnated soulmates.They visited an adult shop in Bankstown, purchasing lingerie and a sex toy, and met up for sexual intercourse on multiple occasions including one where he begged her, the jury heard.
The student came clean with her parents after her diary was discovered but then changed her story after her teacher told her to deny it, Namat told the jury. Kafataris is also accused of assaulting another student, pushing her up against the wall and putting his face near hers in the classroom after asking if she could defend herself.
Witnesses are expected to say that he commented on what the girls wore in class, got some students to sit on his desk and gave a back rub to another.On his arrest, police searched his apartment, recovering a photograph of one student he was in a relationship with on his bedside table, and a school uniform skirt hanging up in his wardrobe.