A Denver-area lawyer, charged with six felonies for allegedly sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, testified Friday that he never touched either child.
William J. Hunsaker Jr., 34, a partner in his father’s Wheat Ridge law firm, is accused of molesting the children during a brief affair he had in early 2003 with their mother, a Fort Collins woman he met while looking for a sex partner on the Internet.
The mother, who isn’t being identified to protect the children, is serving a 22-year prison sentence for aggravated incest and prostituting her children, who now are in separate foster homes.
On Tuesday, both the mother and the girl testified that Hunsaker had sex twice with the girl in March 2003 while the four of them spent a night at a Motel 6 in Thornton. They also testified that the mother had sex with Hunsaker in their Fort Collins apartment as her daughter sat next to him and her son sat on the floor.
But Hunsaker told his attorney, Joseph “Andy” Gavaldon, during testimony, “I never touched those kids. I never did anything to them.”
Asked about the episode on the mother’s couch, he said, “It never happened. I went home that morning.”
He said the mother persuaded him to “role play” on the computer, imagining that the four were an incestuous family. “It was all fantasy,” he told the jury, which had been shown numerous pages of Internet messages the two had sent each other about him having sex with her daughter, including taking her virginity. “She had developed a love triangle in which she and her daughter would compete for my affection,” he said.
But Deputy District Attorney Emily Humphrey attacked Hunsaker’s credibility, getting him to admit that, despite being a licensed attorney, he was using up to $300 of cocaine a week; that he had thousands of pornographic photos in his two computers, including some of the daughter; that he had sent the mother sexually explicit photos of himself, and that he had fled the country last year to avoid prosecution by setting up a new life in Costa Rica with a fake passport.
During closing arguments, Gavaldon told the jury that the mother had created the entire relationship “because she wanted a sugar daddy with this attorney.”
But Humphrey countered that Hunsaker “lived his life on his own terms.”
“Even though he was a licensed attorney, he believed that only some of the laws applied to him.”
