Radio broadcaster Jones faces indecent assault trial over alleged gifts to teenager

In a Sydney courtroom, an 85-year-old broadcaster of considerable public influence now faces the weight of allegations that power and generosity were used as instruments of access to young men over nearly two decades. The first complainant described a pattern familiar to those who study the architecture of grooming — gifts, introductions, intimacy disguised as mentorship — culminating in a moment of contact he neither invited nor resisted, because he was never given the chance. The trial, with six complainants and 76 witnesses, asks a question as old as authority itself: what obligations does