Sonny Hang Chin (65) found out about the comments about him on a private Facebook page and allegedly contacted the woman to ask her to delete it.
She told the Dunedin District Court yesterday that she refused, but agreed to post a response from the "qigong master" in the discussion thread.
"Because there was no ownership I felt like it was my responsibility to come forward to the police, because maybe if it happened to me it’d happened to other people," she said.
Chin faces 13 counts of indecent assault, allegedly committed between 2006 and 2013.
His counsel, Anne Stevens KC, told the jury at the trial’s outset that on most instances her client did not deny touching the women.
However, she said there was no sexual intent in his actions — instead, he was practising a form of traditional Chinese treatment.
The woman who made the Facebook post about Chin spoke to police in 2020 about her experience.
She told Detective Marama Pocock that the defendant "coerced" her into giving consent for him to touch her breasts.
"I guess for me, even though I spoke or parroted the words Sonny was asking me to say in giving permission, he did not have my permission," the complainant said.
She said the incident triggered memories of past sexual abuse and she cried as she was being touched.
"It just felt dirty, it felt wrong, I’m not OK with it on any level," the woman said.
"It’s not healing, it’s not kind, I don’t want this but I don’t know how to stop it."
On Thursday another complainant gave evidence that Chin bit her nipple while treating her for chronic back pain.
She also told the jury that the defendant commented on her breast size at an earlier appointment before slapping her in the pubic region and saying "wake up".
During cross-examination yesterday Mrs Stevens suggested the pelvic striking actually took place twice and Chin had pre-empted it by explaining what was going to happen.
"He never warned me ... I am not wrong about that," the woman said.
She asked whether the complainant’s energy flowed better afterwards.
"No," she said.
Mrs Stevens said the nipple bite simply never happened.
"I remember that extremely well. How could you not? I was horrified," the witness said.
"That’s why I’m here, to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else."
There are two more complainants yet to give their accounts before Chin decides whether to give or call evidence.
The trial, before Judge David Robinson, will continue next week and may run into a third week.
