A man accused of drugging and filming himself raping 13 women said he made one recording in order to “tease” one of his alleged victims for being “lazy”.
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Adam Charles Lusk, a 45-year-old civil engineer, has taken the stand in the WA District Court where he faces 100 charges of stupefying and sexually assaulting the women in Perth between 2020 and 2022.
A number of his victims were teenagers at the time of the alleged offences.
The father of two has denied spiking the women’s drinks and said the sexual encounters were consensual.
His lawyer, Anthony Elliott, questioned Mr Lusk over his encounter with one of his victims, an overseas student, who Mr Lusk said he would send an Uber to collect and bring to his home so they could have casual sex over a roughly six-month period.
Mr Lusk said the sexual encounters were consensual. (Instagram: Adam Lusk)
Mr Lusk said she would sometimes “run out of energy” during sex, which she told him was due to an iron deficiency, and he would then tease her for being “lazy”.
He said one night, when they had been having sex and she became fatigued, he told her he wanted to continue the sexual activity once he had finished cleaning up, to which he claimed she agreed.
He then set up and iPad to record her because, he told the court, “I knew she was going to do her ‘I can’t be bothered’ lazy thing, and that’s why I set up the iPad, as an expectation of what she would be doing later”.
Mr Lusk denies he drugged the women. (Instagram: Adam Lusk)
He described how she then got dressed and “had a snooze” on the couch after telling him she was very tired and had had an iron infusion the week prior.
Mr Lusk said he then returned and had sex with her and she rolled off the couch, but he claimed she was “ok with” being returned to the couch and the activity continuing.
Mr Lusk, a former real estate agent who studied engineering after some time in the military, said he made six videos that night on his phone and iPad.
The court was also shown copies of messages between Mr Lusk and apparent drug dealers on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, seeking to buy drugs including benzodiazepine, ketamine and cocaine.
The trial continues.
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