Rolf Harris child sex abuse education video emerges amid guilty verdict

A video of Rolf Harris teaching children about inappropriate touching and saying no has emerged in the wake of a guilty verdict in his child sexual assault trial.

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Rolf Harris in the 1985 video.

The 1985 educational video titled “Kids Can Say No” shows Harris talking to a number of children about touching and “touching that doesn’t make you feel good”.
“Sometimes people do things to one another which don’t make them feel good,” he said.

“… That’s a no feeling. Sometimes a person can give you the no feeling without even touching you at all.”

The video opens with a chorus of children singing “my body’s nobody’s body but mine”.

A jury of six men and six women found the 84-year-old guilty on all 12 counts of indecent assault against four female complainants, aged from seven or eight to 19, between 1968 and 1986.

Seven of the counts relate to a friend of his daughter, who claims Harris assaulted her over several years, dating back to when she was 13.

Harris has denied the charges but now faces up to 10 years in jail following the guilty verdicts delivered overnight.

He has been released on bail ahead of his sentencing on Friday.

- with AAP.


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