 The boy is understood to have met Cooksley at a service station, where he had gone to buy fuel for his mower, the court heard. In a brave victim impact statement read out to the court, the boy told how Cooksley had caused him to seep into drug and alcohol abuse, which he said he kept hidden from his loved ones. "The hidden shame of my sexual abuse never left me," he said. "I became devoted to wiping out any reality, by wiping myself out. My moral compass went south." The boy says he still struggles to come to terms with the abuse today and, after taking to the stand, Cooksley claimed he never committed anything against the nearly 300 children who were under his care when questioned about his history of fostering children. "Right from the start, I knew it was wrong," Cooksley said about his abuse of the 13-year-old boy. While he admitted this meant nothing in the way of the law, he insisted he had not forced the child. "The activity that took pl){kind=link}
Christopher Cooksley, 72, admitted abusing a teenager in the 1980s and is behind bars after the judge revoked his bail
A foster parent who cared for up to 300 boys has pleaded guilty to historic child sexual abuse.
Christopher Cooksley, 72, admitted abusing a teenage boy in the 1980s and has been thrown behind bars after the judge revoked his bail.
Cooksley, who appeared at the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra, Australia, fostered up to 300 other boys as a short-term carer.
Cooksley has already served six months in prison for offences against the boy in New South Wales, and was jailed after the victim reported the crime to police back in 2009, abc.net reports.