A FORMER magistrate's clerk has told a South Australian tribunal her boss made salacious comments, touched her breasts and smacked her bottom with a file.
Rebecca Ramstrom said Joseph Baldino's conduct made her feel disgusted and scared, leading her to walk out of her job in September 2010 to a "miserable" life in which she couldn't trust people and had a dog for protection.
The 33-year-old has taken the now-retired magistrate to the Equal Opportunity Tribunal in Adelaide, claiming he sexually harassed her when she was his clerk.
Giving evidence on Tuesday, Ms Ramstrom said she had just begun the job when she accompanied Mr Baldino on circuit to the Port Lincoln Magistrates Court for a week in 2008.
Ms Ramstrom said he told her "circuit is for fun" and repeatedly asked her to meals and to his hotel room for drinks, where he complained there was no spa.
He told her previous clerks had gone in the spa with him, she said.
She had said she would not, adding that she did not have her bathers.
"He said you can just go in your bra and knickers and that he would not have minded," Ms Ramstrom told the tribunal.
Mr Baldino had also commented on her tongue piercing, asking if its purpose was "to pleasure your husband".
"I was shocked and disgusted," she said.
Ms Ramstrom said she had complained to her superiors about Mr Baldino and after an informal meeting he had apologised and she had agreed to give him a second chance.
But she said more incidents occurred at the end of 2009 and in 2010.
Mr Baldino had told her he had a blonde personal trainer who was "all over him" and asked Ms Ramstrom to wear stockings to a medieval costume party, telling her to make sure "they are clean between the legs".
In court, when she made a mistake, he leaned over and said, "You deserve a spanking."
Another day he commented on her necklace and grabbed it.
"He managed to touch both my breasts in a scooping motion ... it was wrong, it was just disgusting," Ms Ramstrom said.
The next day, he smacked her left buttock with a file, leaving her shaking and dry retching into a bin, she said.
She was so emotionally upset that she never returned to work and has been seeing a psychologist and psychiatrist ever since.
The hearing is continuing.
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