Cop 'sexually assaulted woman fleeing violence'

A SOUTH Australian police officer in Melbourne to help the Black Saturday bushfires recovery held the pillow over the face of a woman as he digitally raped her, a court has heard.

The woman was placed in a hotel in Melbourne's east by a welfare agency after fleeing domestic violence, only to be raped, indecently assaulted and imprisoned by officer Damien Michael Jay Wilmott, 30, the Melbourne Magistrates Court was told today.

A second South Australian police officer, 40-year-old Steven James Westcott, also indecently assaulted her, it is alleged.