The charges relate to four female students at three different schools in Sydney’s west and south-west between 2000 and 2021.
The now 20-year-old woman said her teacher’s replies would differ but included “talking about how special I am” or complimenting her thighs, chest and ankles. , Crown prosecutor Georgina Namat said Kafataris had a unit in Bankstown, where he was arrested in May 2021. The complainant claimed that on one occasion, Kafataris had asked her words to the effect of, “Would you be strong enough to defend yourself?” and then pushed her up against the wall of a school hallway “pretty forcefully” with both hands on her shoulders.“I panicked and I kind of blanked out in the moment,” she said.“No,” the woman replied.