‘Shut up': Sydney personal trainer's alleged horrific belt attack
Campbelltown man Anthony Stevo Glumac, 28, faced the first day of his trial in the NSW District Court on Monday after allegedly sexually assaulting more than a dozen women and girls between 2013 and 2020 in Sydney and Wollongong.
The court heard from one of Mr Glumac's alleged victims, whom he met on Tinder before adding on Snapchat.
The woman told the court how she had agreed for Mr Glumac to pick her up in his car before they would 'get something to eat'.
She told the court that after getting into his car, Mr Glumac 'aggressively grabbed' the back of her head and kissed her and said: 'I'm just going to get this out of the way'.
'I was very uncomfortable. I couldn't get the words out, I was very shocked,' he said.
She told the court Mr Glumac then drove them to his apartment, where he led her into the bedroom.
The alleged victim said he then 'thrust himself upon' her before asking him to stop.
She told the court that Mr Glumac then told her to 'shut up'.
The court heard how Mr Glumac allegedly took off her belt and used it to hit her on 'the backside' multiple times.
She also said that at one stage, he punched her in the tailbone area.
'I was at this point crying because it was hurting me,' she told the court.
'I said you're hurting me. He just kept going.'
The woman told the court that Mr Glumac then told her she could use the bathroom and 'clean herself up'.
She said when she tried to put her pants back on, she noticed she was 'really, really sore' and used her phone to look at her 'backside' with the camera.
'I could see there were laceration cuts from the belt …. and a lot of redness and swelling on my bum,' she said.
'I was very numb. I was very, very shocked. I felt disgusted.'
The alleged victim said she came out of the bathroom, before Mr Glumac began smoking weed on his balcony with some friends.
She said she told Mr Glumac she would take the bus home, throwing out her belt at the station.
The alleged victim told the court she cried on the way home on the bus. She then blocked Mr Glumac on social media.
She told the court there was no prior conversation about any sexual encounter and that she had only met up at Mr Glumac on the agreement that they were going out to eat in a public setting.
The alleged victim told the court she confided in a friend the next day and took photos of her injuries.
Months later, she reported the matter to police after seeing that Mr Glumac had been arrested on the news.
Mr Glumac has pleaded not guilty to all 49 charges, claiming they were all consensual.
He is facing a judge-only trial and lost a bid to have his name and photo suppressed in April.
Mr Glumac grew up in Picton in Sydney's west before moving to Campbelltown.
The court has previously heard how Mr Glumac allegedly used Facebook, Tinder and Snapchat to organise meet-ups with the women.
In April, Crown prosecutor Mark Hay told the court the evidence of the women would be 'strikingly similar'.
The trial continues.
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