Rolf Harris sued over ‘fresh sex attack after molesting vulnerable 10-year-old girl at school holiday camp’
ROLF Harris has been accused of sexually assaulting a vulnerable ten-year-old girl at a school holiday camp.
The alleged victim is suing the paedophile entertainer - who has terminal cancer - for allegedly molesting her in Melbourne in 1982.
Harris, now 92, served three years in prison after being found guilty of 12 indecent assaults against four underage girls in the UK.
Now another woman claims she was assaulted 40 years ago in Australia.
She was introduced to him after he performed at a camp at Mount Eliza on the Mornington Peninsula, the reports.
She alleges he was helping her pick spilt wax off her dress when he used a “hug-lift” to move her onto him.
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The woman then claims he sexually assaulted her.
“I remember feeling petrified, terrified and panicked,” she said, recalling that she screamed when he touched her.
But when confronted, Harris called her a “lying brat”, she claims.
The woman is also suing the State of Victoria and foster care provider OzChild over alleged abuses that happened when she was under their care.
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In 2014, Harris was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison after being found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault against four underage girls.
His trial heard one of the victims was a childhood friend of his daughter and another a young autograph hunter.
He was released from prison in May 2017 part-way through a re-trial on four accusations of indecent assault.
In November 2017, Harris appeared at the Court of Appeal in London to try and overturn his 2014 convictions, claiming jurors in the case were "poisoned" against him.
He had one conviction overturned following his appeal, but the other 11 remain.
Harris found fame in the 1960s with the release of his hit song Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.
He later moved to Berkshire and became a UK TV star.
The artist, who famously painted Queen Elizabeth II, was stripped of his CBE and other accolades after his sickening crimes came to light as part of Operation Yewtree.
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The disgraced performer was last seen in public walking his dog near his rural estate in Bray, Berkshire, two years ago.
He is reportedly “gravely ill” and unable to speak or eat without a tube since being diagnosed with neck cancer.
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