Barbie: Prinsloo a monster
2009-03-20 22:16
Johannesburg - Her former lover Dirk Prinsloo was a "monster" who had abused her emotionally and physically, Cezanne Visser testified on Friday in the High Court in Pretoria.
Visser on Friday concluded her evidence after over two weeks in the witness stand.
Her mother, Susan, will start testifying when the trial resumes on Monday.
Visser, also known as "Advocate Barbie", has denied guilt to 14 charges relating to the alleged sexual molestation of women and minor girls from a children's home, claiming she had no will of her own because of Prinsloo's coercive control.
Prinsloo fled the country in 2006, leaving her to face the music alone.
Visser testified that her relationship with Prinsloo was not normal and that she regarded herself as a victim, because he had robbed her of her identity and abused her.
Referring to the masochistic sex to which Prinsloo had subjected her, Visser said: "there were no safe words in our relationship. I didn't even know about the existence of such things".
She said Prinsloo also used to like an audience, which was why one of his secretaries, a young girl from a children's home and even her own mother had been confronted with the situation where they had to look on while Visser had oral sex with Prinsloo.
Visser testified that she regarded the way in which Prinsloo had spoken to her, emotionally thrashed her, abused her body by changing into something he wanted and the sexual aspects of their relationship as abusive.
"It was not normal for me at all to be exposed to such things. I regard it as abuse. There was absolutely no respect, tenderness or love from him.
"He use me, abused me, for his own purposes," she said.
Visser admitted being upset about her parents trying to get her away from Prinsloo, but stressed that she had always loved them and could not believe today that she had obtained a family violence interdict against them.
She conceded telling a psychiatrist she did not leave Prinsloo because she felt sorry for him, but added that it was only one of the emotions she experienced.
The trial continues on Monday.
- SAPA