"I gave into Grant's requests despite knowing deep down that it was not right," the mother said. The mother described that day as a turning point, after which Davies kept requesting videos and photos. What are you scared of? No-one is going to know'." "I didn't reply immediately so he sent me a number of text messages saying, 'Just do it. I eventually became trapped and didn't know a way out. "I continued to send Grant inappropriate photos and videos to please him and keep him on side. "He sent back 'can you send me something?' "I sent him back a message saying they were at home dancing around in their underwear. "My conversation with Grant started with his asking where we were and what we were doing," she said. Her eldest daughter was "only in a G-string, mucking around with a feather boa". The woman wept as she told the hearing she sent the first inappropriate video of her daughter, who was 10 at the time, to Davies in 2009. Video of girl in G-string, feather boa sent "He asked me questions about what I wanted for my future and the future of the girls, and when I responded he said things like, 'I can do that for you'."Īfter her own aspirations to be a dancer never materialised, she said she felt excited for her daughters' futures. "I found him to be very charming, charismatic and funny," the mother told the inquiry. "RG Dance quickly became a way of life and we became part of the RG family," said the woman, who cannot be identified.įrom February 2009, the woman's two daughters, who were as young as nine at the time, did up to 40 hours of dance classes a week, and Davies and the mother began sending online messages to each other.
The 44-year-old woman told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse how she came to trust Grant Davies in late 2009, after he head-hunted her daughters to join his RG Dance Studio in the Sydney suburb of Chiswick.
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