00:02William Cam has been acquitted of allegations he groomed a seven-year-old girl for more than a decade.
00:07The doomsday cult leader has his compound on the New South Wales South Coast.
00:11He and his wife, Sandra Matheson, faced a judge-alone trial where the court heard five weeks of evidence,
00:17including more than 60 phone calls Cam made from his jail cell to Matheson.
00:21The court heard Matheson acted as a conduit and played the phone calls on loudspeaker to the child.
00:27Judge Nicole Noman handed down her judgement today at Sydney's Downing Centre District Court,
00:32finding the pair not guilty of all counts, including grooming a child for unlawful sexual activity.
00:38She accepted the couple communicated with the girl over the phone for more than a decade
00:42and that the complainant was truthful in her testimony.
00:45The judge also accepted Cam had a sexual interest in children that he previously acted on.
00:51The judge said both accused had a plan for the complainant to be Cam's wife
00:55and to eventually bear his children to repopulate the earth after the apocalypse.
00:59But she said the evidence was deficient in establishing whether they had the plan to meet before she was 16.
01:05Outside the court, Cam said God bless the judge.
01:07or even the efecto he never gets into theoning tradition for people to save the age.
01:08Theples of the people who spent on the medication is a fatal feature of anyways.
01:09When the call wasениpit Louie was a mortality box for refused to charge.
01:10and I also put out fourfold Sri,
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