Boy made false sex abuse claims, court hears

An adopted son of a radio personality accused of sexually molesting four young girls told a Central Criminal Court jury he made false allegations of sexual abuse against the accused.

The 17-year-old boy told defence counsel, Ms Iseult O'Malley BL, there was no truth in his allegations of being abused in the accused's home and in the mountains, and he had deliberately put in wrong details in his statement so that somebody might "cop on".