A carer was denied a full-time job with a disability support organisation before he sexually abused several people under his care, a Melbourne court has heard.
Rumours of inappropriate behaviour was the reason Vinod Johnny Kumar, 30, was not employed permanently by Yooralla at its residential facilities, the Victorian County Court heard on Wednesday.
However, he was working as a casual staff member for the organisation when he raped two women, assaulted a third and committed an indecent act with a man in 2011 and 2012.
Prosecution lawyer Nanette Rogers said Kumar told a work mate the residents were "easy" before he was arrested.
Three of his four victims were in wheelchairs and all required assistance with daily tasks and many of the offences occurred when the victims were being showered or taken to the toilet by Kumar.
Dr Rogers said his victims were "utterly powerless".
"The accused could do anything to them he wanted," she said.
"All of them are trapped within their own bodies to some extent."
Dr Rogers told the court Kumar would taunt his victims, telling them if they reported him it would be their word against his.
Kumar pleaded guilty to 12 charges including eight counts of rape and two charges of sexual penetration of a cognitively impaired person.
He had sought to change his plea in the County Court, but this was denied and the ruling subsequently upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Defence attorney Peter Kilduff on Wednesday tendered a signed affidavit to the court and said Kumar maintained his innocence.
Dr Rogers said this indicated a lack of remorse.
Mr Kilduff said Kumar had a high-range academic ability but had not been an attentive student at his boarding school in India, where he frequently got into fights with the other students.
The Indian national fled his home country because his father was trying to force him into an arranged marriage, he said.
One victim present in court cried throughout the prosecution's opening.
In a victim impact statement read out in court, one women said she had not reported Kumar because it had never made any difference in the past.
Another victim called him a monster and said she had to have her room cleansed by a priest following the attack.
"You monster, you have to live with it," the victim said in her statement.
"I will never forgive what you have done."
Kumar will be sentenced on November 14.
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