A Robina Hospital maintenance worker has faced court accused of shoving his hand down the pants and up the shirt of a staff member. He also allegedly took the woman’s hand and placed it on his clothed groin area during an incident in June 2017. Anthony Alan Dixon pleaded not guilty in the Southport District Court yesterday to two counts of sexual assault. In his opening, Crown Prosecutor Michael Mitchell outlined what the jury of five men and seven women would hear during the trial. He told the court the pair were working in the kitchen area of the doctors’ accommodation at the time of the alleged attack. Mr Mitchell told the jury Dixon said to the woman: “I can tell you haven’t had sex for a long time. Do you want me?” Dixon then grabbed her by the arm, shoved a hand down the woman’s pants, not quite to the genital area, before putting the same hand up her shirt, the court was told. Mr Mitchell said Dixon also grabbed the woman’s hand and put it on his clothed groin. The jury was told the woman tried to shake Dixon off and managed to move away. Mr Mitchell said Dixon kept asking the woman for a kiss. “She thought if she just let him kiss her once he would let her go,” he said. The court was told the woman left the area and finished work without telling anyone. The woman allegedly told her son that afternoon before repeating the allegations to her bosses two days after the incident. Mr Mitchell said it took the woman about six months to report the incident to police. The trial continues today.
