Pregnant girlfriend of man accused of keeping sex slave James Davis wants him home for birth

A self-proclaimed ‘kinky sex overlord’ accused of keeping a slave and forcing her into prostitution is being kept in solitary confinement behind bars and wants to be freed for the birth of his first child.

James-Robert Davis was due to apply for bail in the New South Wales Supreme Court on Wednesday but proceedings were delayed after his lawyer attempted to prevent the media from reporting on his case.

The former soldier’s five girlfriends, including one who is six-months pregnant, were at the court to tell the judge their relationship is consensual and they want him home for the September baby arrival.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal Davis, 40, is struggling in jail where he is kept in isolation for 24-hours a day. He is housed in a one-man segregation cell, has no access to an open yard and doesn’t interact with other inmates.

Davis was arrested in March and charged with possessing a slave, reducing a person to slavery and causing a person to remain in servitude after an AFP investigation and a 15-hour raid on his property near Armidale in the New South Wales Northern Tablelands.

Sophie, Hanne, Hunter and Finlay and Charlotte entered the NSW Supreme Court side by side as their boyfriend, James-Robert Davis, appeared via video link on Wednesday afternoon

James-Robert Davis was due to apply for bail in the New South Wales Supreme Court on Wednesday but proceedings were delayed after his lawyer attempted to prevent the media from reporting on his case

Davis (centre) had allegedly been living with as many as six women he called ‘slaves’ at his home near Armidale in northern New South Wales

Davis and his pregnant girlfriend Charlotte own this farm house near Armidale in the New South Wales Northern Tablelands. AFP officers raided the property and found he lived there with five lovers

Until then, Davis was living with five woman in a ‘consensual polyamorous BDSM relationship’ at the sprawling rural property.

The home, which is 30km out of town, is owned by Davis and his pregnant girlfriend Charlotte, and has bedrooms for each of his girlfriends.

They split household bills evenly.

The court heard that Charlotte is willing to be cross examined under oath, at which point she is expected to explain how important it is to her that Davis is home to witness the birth of his first child.

But she will have to wait at least another three weeks for another opportunity to plead their case.

The court previously heard the women deny allegations that Davis is in the business of keeping women as his slaves.

He is accused of making a woman sign a contract to enter into slavery, forcing her to wear a steel collar and locking her in a cage for up to three days.

Davis has spent his entire custodial sentence in solitary confinement without access to prescription medication used to treat his diagnosed PTSD after years in the army

James Robert Davis (pictured), 40, has been charged with slavery offences

Charlotte, Sophie, Hanne, Hunter and Finlay entered the court side by side to support their boyfriend, James-Robert Davis

Davis spends 24 hours a day in his cell, which has a small concrete yard attached for exercise and is granted leave rarely, only for the occasional telephone call or legal conference. Officers remove inmates from their cells at Parklea prison in 2017

The women, who are all in a polyamorous relationship with Davis, made the six-hour trek from the home they share in Yarrowyck, about 30km outside of Armidale, to put on a united front

Police allege the woman was subjected to extreme violence and threatened with court action if she broke the contract for the most minor of indiscretions, like going to the toilet without permission.

It is further alleged the woman was forced to work as a prostitute at a brothel six nights a week and hand over every dollar she earned when Davis was tight on cash.

None of the charges relate to his present girlfriends, and they all insist they are in a consensual and loving polyamorous relationship with the 40-year-old.

The delay in presenting a bail application to the magistrate will be a blow to Davis’ morale after enduring a ‘particularly onerous’ time behind bars due to his work as a corrections officer in the past.

Daily Mail Australia understands Davis has spent his entire custodial sentence in solitary confinement without access to prescription medication used to treat his diagnosed PTSD after years in the army.

Davis spends 24 hours a day in his cell, which has a small concrete yard attached for exercise, and can only leave for an occasional telephone call or legal conference.

Davis’ five girlfriends put on a united front in court

The women made the six-hour trek from the home they share in Yarrowyck, about 30km outside of Armidale, to put on a united front as the court heard they remain in a consensual polyamorous BDSM relationship.

Among the five partners was Davis’ pregnant girlfriend of six years Charlotte. The women wore matching black face masks and sunglasses.

They entered and exited the court in a pack, moving in sync before sitting next to one another in front row of the court, all craning to get a good look of their lover on the main screen.

Each of the women is educated, most have stable jobs and they all have access to personal bank accounts, own their own cars and are free to travel however they wish.

Charlotte is an English as a second language teacher with a Master of Teaching.

The court heard the woman has filed an affidavit in which she described living with Davis and his four other girlfriends in an ‘openly polyamorous relationship with aspects of BDSM’.

One of the women is completing a Bachelor of Laws while another works with animals.

A third is undertaking a finance degree and the final girlfriend is employed as a nurse.

As someone familiar with the make up of the relationship put it; ‘they’re not just some junkies from Mt Druitt who have grabbed onto a sex cult because it’s thrilling.’

Five highly educated, sexually adventurous women (pictured) have arrived at the NSW Supreme Court to stand by their man as he languishes in jail accused of keeping a sex slave

Pictured is a supplied Australian Federal Police photo of their Thursday afternoon raid on the sprawling rural estate

Pictured: Robert James Davis (centre) with lingerie-clad women. He has been charged with slavery offences

The property also contained a shed which had a barber’s chair and boxes filled with whips, collars and other sex instruments

Concerns have been raised in the past to New South Wales Police that Davis struggles with depression and anxiety which may worsen in custody without access to support services and his medication.

On Wednesday, Davis’ barrister Ian Lloyd QC, supported by solicitor Bianca Barnes, from George Sten & Co, were expected to make a bid for Davis’ bail.

Instead, they asked the court for a suppression order on the entire case, arguing that their client would not be granted a fair trial due to media scrutiny.

The magistrate admitted it was unlikely the request would be granted, but adjourned the bail application until after she could make a decision on the application of a suppression order.

‘There is obviously significant media interest… I can assume that reflects the wish of the public,’ Justice Helen Wilson said.

Several small wooden huts are scattered throughout the rural property, several hundred metres from the main home

A self-described ‘kinky sex overlord’ accused of keeping a woman as a slave and forcing her into prostitution remains in solitary confinement behind bars at Parklea. Officers are pictured searching Parklea prison for drugs, weapons and phones in July 2017

None of the charges relate to his present girlfriends, and they all insist they are in a consensual and loving polyamorous relationship with the 40-year-old

Images released by the Australian Federal Police show the property contained a shed with large wooden doors

Mr Lloyd, who was the state’s Senior Crown Prosecutor before returning to private practice, is representing Davis and will be rigorously defending the charges.

He maintains Davis has ‘done nothing wrong’ and is simply in a consensual polyamorous relationship with five women which ‘may have elements of BDSM’.

‘As strange as this case may be, it is very defendable,’ Mr Lloyd said. ‘And it will be strenuously defended because my client has said all along he’s done nothing wrong.’

Davis styles himself as the patriarch of the ‘House of Cadifor’ which includes the five women who have allegedly signed ‘slavery’ contracts.

Finlay is employed as a laboratory technician while undertaking a Bachelor of Finance and finally, Hunter is a registered nurse and also completing a Diploma in Mathematics

Australian Federal Police vision is pictured of the moment Davis was arrested by officers outside the Bunnings in Armidale, northern New South Wales on Thursday afternoon

An Australian Federal Police supplied picture of multiple cabins on the rural NSW property

‘I’m instructed that nothing that has occurred in their interplay with my client is a slave relationship or non-consensual,’ Mr Lloyd said at a previous court hearing.

‘It’s said that when my client’s premises were raided a cage was seen. I’m instructed that, as much as a cage may have been involved with the complainant, that cage had no bottom, could be lifted up, and one could simply unlock the door by putting one’s arm around through it.’

‘Each of these women — if they’re a slave — has had the opportunity to run away; they have not done so,’ Mr Lloyd said.

‘My client won’t be on trial for being a member of a cult even if, ultimately, that was accepted as a fact,’ Mr Lloyd said, according to The Telegraph.

‘There is no crime in lifestyle choices, no crime associated with consensual BDSM, these matters are not crimes and he has not been charged.’

ALLEGED VICTIM’S ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ‘SEX SLAVER’ DAVIS

According to a statement of facts tendered to the court, the alleged victim met Davis met in 2012 when he was in the army and the pair soon began living together at Maroubra in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

The woman allegedly initially consented when Davis began to introduce bondage, discipline sadism and masochism (BDSM) during sex because it did not intrude on their day-to-day lives.

But two months into the relationship Davis allegedly punched her to the ground. He allegedly began isolating the woman from her family and friends and took over handling her finances.

About a month later BDSM began to be incorporated into all aspects of the couple’s lifestyle, according to the tendered statement of facts.

Davis allegedly told the woman she had to wear a ‘submissive collar’, described as a thick stainless steel ring which was secured by an Allen key and worn around her neck at all times.

By the end of 2012 a second woman was allegedly introduced to the relationship, followed by a third. Davis allegedly told the victim she was being promoted to ‘slave’ and asked her to sign a ‘slave contract’ which had accompanying ‘slave protocols’.

‘The accused informed her that the contract was a legally binding contract and if she breached the contract she could be criminally charged in a court,’ the statement of facts said.

Davis allegedly told the woman she was ‘worthless’, ‘broken’ and useless each time she broke the rules.

The woman was allegedly forced to ask Davis for permission to perform everyday activities, including going to the toilet, or face punishment.

One of the punishments was allegedly being hit with a cane until she bled, which had led to permanent scarring.

The woman allegedly had to be naked at the front door when Davis returned home and remove his shoes so she could kiss his feet.

Police will allege Davis choked the woman to the point of unconsciousness multiple times and locked her in a cage for two nights and three days in a row.

‘While the victim was in the cage he would assault her by repeatedly ramming a pole through the bars of the cage and into the victim,’ the statement of facts said.

In 2014 the couple moved to Emerald in Queensland where Davis worked as a security guard for a strip club and the woman worked as the madam, allegedly without being paid.

‘The accused forced the victim to have her slave number tattooed on her body,’ the statement of facts said. ‘The victim recalls the slave number started with S/N 95, followed by a unique number.’

Davis is also accused of coercing the woman into prostitution without payment when the pair moved back to Sydney in 2015 and the woman began work in a Surry Hills brothel.

The woman allegedly worked at the brothel six nights a week and was paid cash which Davis allegedly collected from her each morning.

In 2015 the woman escaped and moved into share accommodation, according to the statement of facts.

Four large wooden sandboxes with women’s names engraved on the side are pictured on Davis’ property

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