Former advocate Cezanne Visser on Monday admitted performing sex acts in front of two children who she fetched from a children’s home.
Visser, better known as Advocate Barbie, admitted that she had in 2002 pretended to a children’s home that she and her former lover, Dirk Prinsloo, were married.
She said she believed she was recognised as Prinsloo’s ”wife” after a common-law ”ceremony”, and was in any event not thinking with her ”legal brain” at the time.
”Dirk did the thinking and I did his bidding. I don’t know why. I don’t have an explanation for it, I just did it without thinking,” she said.
Visser has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, including indecent assault, rape and the manufacturing of child pornography.
Her defence is that she was coerced by Prinsloo to perform the criminal acts. The two were charged after a police raid on Prinsloo’s Pretoria home in 2002.
Prinsloo has since disappeared while on a trip to Russia.
Visser’s trial started afresh after the initial trial judge died in 2007.
Visser said on Monday she was busy with the Idols competition while Prinsloo fetched a 15-year-old girl from the children’s home for a weekend in 2002.
That same evening, Dirk ”forced” her to have oral sex with him while they were sitting in front of the television with the child.
Visser admitted to walking around naked in front of the girl, but said walking around without clothes ”was like brushing her teeth” while she was with Prinsloo.
She denied deliberately showing pornography to the child, but admitted there were numerous pornographic magazines lying around in the house.
She was also aware that Prinsloo had shown a pornographic video to the girl while showing her how the video machine worked.
”When we took her back to the children’s home, Dirk asked her not to talk about what she had seen and heard at the house,” Visser said.
”I did not ask him what he meant, but she had seen how I had oral sex with a man. I think it must have been a shock for her,” Visser said.
Visser denied soliciting the girl to commit indecent acts, or indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl she and Prinsloo had fetched from the same children’s home a few weeks later.
She admitted to ”playing” with a vibrator in front of the girl, but said it was because the child had asked her about it.
There were a lot of sex toys lying around in the house, as Prinsloo used to spend thousands of rands on sex toys and costumes.
Visser denied forcing the girl to walk around naked, but said Prinsloo had told her to take the girl’s top off while they were swimming.
The trial continues. — Sapa