A YOUTH worker under Education Department contract has faced court accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
The man, 37, appeared in the Victor Harbor Magistrates Court this morning.
He is one of six people employed in South Australian schools charged with sex abuse allegations in the growing scandal that has engulfed the State Government.
In January, police charged the man with three aggravated counts of indecent assault and 10 counts of being a person in authority who had sex with a person under the age of 18.
Those offences allegedly occurred at Mount Compass between October and December last year.
The alleged victim is a girl aged 16.
In February, Education Minister Jennifer Rankine said she had only been made aware of the alleged crimes 10 days before she spoke publicly about the incident.
It subsequently emerged that police were alerted to the man by the mother of another child in his care.
That mother claimed the man had "demonstrated behaviour" that raised her suspicions but she was "fobbed off" by the Department.
Today, the man was remanded on continuing bail to face court in Adelaide next month.
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