A woman, going under the court-ordered pseudonym “Petra,” recounted in Australian court details of her experience as a part of the infamous “Colt Family,” a family believed to have engaged in “intergenerational incest” for years. The woman was allegedly assaulted by one of her uncles, referred to as Frank Colt, and was reportedly the product of Tim Colt, also a pseudonym, and his own daughter.

“He was holding me down while he was taking my clothes off. I was fighting against him,” Petra explained while presenting evidence in court. “[I] tried to fight him off, he wouldn't listen ... I was kicking him, punching him, pulling his hair.

She said that her uncle’s assault lasted 10-15 minutes in the back seat of a car, after which he threw her clothes out a window and told her to “get.”

In 2013, the Colt family entered the public eye after 12 children were removed from the property due to poor living conditions at a remote property in New South Wales. It eventually came to light that 11 of these children had parents that were related to one another. Frank Holt is also alleged to have fathered five other children with another of his daughters.

In court, Petra explained how siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles were “all sleeping together.”

“This was not a secret in the family,” prosecutor Katharine Jeffreys said. “The complainant’s parents knew and… told her to keep her mouth shut.”

Petra was reportedly raped by Frank Colt – also the son of Tim Colt – at the New South Wales property and assaulted by a different uncle since childhood. All of this was ignored by the rest of the family, which moved across the country multiple times and stuck to isolated areas.

Standalone trials for other male members of the Colt family are scheduled throughout the coming weeks.

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