Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is seen in a cell at a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down her attempt to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia’s main cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov)
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Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is seen in a cell at a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down her attempt to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia’s main cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov)
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Russian judge Galina Yefremova, left, chairs a court session in a town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down the attempt of jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia’s main cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov)
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Smoke rises over a fence of a prison camp where jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina, unseen, serves her term, in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down her attempt to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia’s main cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov)
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A man and a woman have been charged after holding a teenage boy against his will in Queensland.
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Business owner Dean Wright, 82, pauses outside his neighbor's family-owned business, United States Fire Protection Services, in Downey, Calif. Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. A gunman killed three people and injured two, including a 13-year-old boy, Wednesday in two separate attacks on a family at their business, United States Fire Protection Services and nearby residence. Police say the five family members who were shot had been targeted by the gunman. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Business owner Dean Wright, 82, expresses his grief for the killings outside his neighbor's family-owned business, United States Fire Protection Services, in Downey, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. A gunman killed three people and injured two, including a 13-year-old boy, Wednesday in two separate attacks on a family at their business, United States Fire Protection Services and nearby residence. Police say the five family members who were shot had been targeted by the gunman. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Police investigators talk to people across the street from a family-owned business, United States Fire Protection Services, in Downey, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Five people were shot and at least two died in shootings at the business and a residence in a Los Angeles suburb Wednesday, according to Downey police Lt. Dean Milligan. The shootings occurred shortly after 11 a.m. at a business and at a nearby home, where family members of the business owner live. A woman was found dead at the home, he said. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Flowers and votive candles are seen outside the home of the owners of a family-owned business, United States Fire Protection Services, in Downey, Calif. Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. A gunman killed three people and injured two, including a 13-year-old boy, Wednesday in two separate attacks on a family at its suburban Los Angeles business and nearby residence. Police say the five family members who were shot had been targeted by the gunman. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Female accused had 'rich fantasy life'
A woman accused of sexually abusing male primary students while working at their NSW school had a "rich fantasy life" and liked to dress up as Marilyn Monroe, a Sydney court has heard.
The woman, known only as "CJ", was sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison in 2011 for sexually abusing a number of boys over five months in 2009 while working as a weekend "housemother" at a southern NSW school.
But her convictions were quashed last year after the Court of Criminal Appeal found the original judge failed to properly analyse evidence of her mental state at the time of the offences.
At the judge alone re-trial on Tuesday, forensic psychiatrist Professor David Greenberg rejected claims the 44-year-old woman suffered from bipolar disorder, saying she suffered "no defect of reason".
Prof Greenberg told Downing Centre District Court that CJ had been "contaminated" by her research into bipolar, such as doing quizzes on the Black Dog Institute website.
While CJ "identified" with symptoms of bipolar, Prof Greenberg said he believed she displayed "cognitive and personality disturbances" similar to those seen in female pedophiles.
"It wasn't just sex ... she believed that she was having a relationship with this child and that the child was her lover."
He said CJ further believed the then 11-year-old boy had been the one pursuing the affair.
Prof Greenberg added there were numerous examples which would suggest CJ knew of her wrongdoing, telling one of the boys that if anyone found out about them she would go to jail.
The former school employee reported having a "rich fantasy life" and had been known to dress up as former screen siren Marilyn Monroe and singer Annie Lennox, Prof Greenberg said.
"She has always been a loner; never really had close friendships," he said.
The court did not hear any suggestion the woman had dressed up during any of the alleged abuse.
The court heard CJ had experienced a series of problematic sexual relationships, falling pregnant when aged 13 and at 19 being intimate with a 14-year-old boy.
The trial before Judge John Williams continues.
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