The NRL star’s ex-wife left ‘disgusted’ after her children found sex tape featuring footy player and his new partner on an iPad as she faces revenge porn charges

The ex-wife of a top NRL star has told a court she was ‘disgusted’ after realizing her children had found pornographic photos and videos of her ex and his new partner on an iPad.

The woman appeared in Sydney’s Downing Center court on Thursday, fighting charges of distributing and recording revenge porn with her ex-husband from the NRL.

The court heard that the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, became aware of the pornographic photos and videos when her children and two of their friends found them on an iPad last October.

She went to the witness stand Thursday afternoon where she explained how she was making breakfast for the four children when she saw them on the couch looking at an iPad.

“I could hear all the kids ‘oh-ing and ah-ing’… I heard (one child) say comments like ‘oh my god that’s so inappropriate,'” the woman told the court.

The woman said the children gasped before a friend of her young child came over and showed her the iPad, which she said belonged to her son and was mostly used in her ex-husband’s house.

The child handed over the iPad and the woman told the court she saw her ex-husband’s new partner “naked” with her “breasts showing,” posing “in a way that” covered her genitals.

When asked by her lawyer, Christopher Cole, how she felt when she saw the photo, the woman said she was “disgusted.”

She told the court she hid the iPad, which she later discovered shared a cloud account and is linked to another device the NRL player now uses, and tried to distract the kids.

The woman told the court that she forwarded a screenshot to the child’s parent in an attempt to “apologise profusely” and explain the situation.

“I said (to the mother), ‘I’m sorry to break this to you, but unfortunately the four children witnessed inappropriate content on an iPad taken home from (the NRL star’s)’ home.” ,” she told the court.

She told the court she had a copy of what the children had seen and that the mother had asked to see them.

Mr Cole told the court it was not in dispute that the woman had sent the photos to her friend, but that she defended it because it was ‘reasonable’ that she had taken and distributed the photos.

The court heard she sent the messages in an attempt to apologize and explain the situation.

“She was their mother, she had a right to know firsthand what they had seen,” the ex-wife told the court.

“I felt obligated to inform her of its contents.”

The court heard that the woman had sent her ex-husband and his new partner a message saying that she had ‘recorded everything now’.

“If you do something wrong by the kids or by me, it will be in court,” the court was told in the message.

She explained that she sent the message because the “pornographic content … raised concerns about how responsible” the couple were with their children.

The woman said it made her “extremely concerned” about her children’s safety and that she took pictures of the sexual photos and videos to “discuss” with her children or a psychologist.

Police allege that the woman illegally ‘recorded’ the videos and images of the sex acts without the consent of the NRL star or his new partner.

The woman is charged with deliberately distributing an intimate image without consent and with intentionally recording an intimate image without consent.

Under new NSW laws dealing with revenge porn, a number of ‘exceptions’ can be used as a defense.

These included whether a “reasonable person would consider the suspect’s behavior acceptable” if they were to distribute the footage.

The court will have to determine the nature and content of the material, ‘the circumstances’ in which it was included and the extent to which the privacy of the alleged victims has been compromised.

The hearing continues.