A former deputy superintendent at a care home has denied 13 historic charges of sexual activity with two boys in his care.
Huw Meurig Jones, 69, of Penybryn, Old Colwyn, pleaded not guilty to four charges of indecency with a child and four charges of indecent assault against a 13-year-old former resident of Little Acton Assessment Centre in Wrexham in the 1970s.
He also denies three indecent assaults and two charges of a serious sexual assault against a boy in his care in Colwyn Bay in the 1970s, when the boy was 14 or 15 years old.
Prosecutor Danny Moore said in his opening statement that Jones had worked with children between 1974 and 1981.
Jones’ work brought him into contact with vulnerable children at Little Acton, then as a social worker in Wrexham for Clwyd County Council and later Colwyn Bay.
The court heard that both alleged victims, who were said not to know each other, made separate complaints about Jones in 1992 during a previous police investigation.
It was only when historic sex abuse investigation Operation Pallial reopened the files and contacted complainants that allegations were looked into again by the National Crime Agency.
Mr Moore said: “The prosecution says there are similarities in evidence from the boys and the defendant had a sexual interest in boys of that age in that period.
“He would create opportunities to be alone with the boys.”
He described how Jones came in to the room of one boy in secure accommodation at Little Acton Assessment Centre and performed a sex act on him before getting the 13-year-old to do the same to him.
“He came into the room on three separate occasions,” said Mr Moore.
The alleged victim, he said, neither wanted nor consented to the activity and was “frightened”.
The second boy said he was invited to play cards with Jones, who was then a social worker, at his flat in Colwyn Bay.
The court heard that Jones gave him cigarettes and they played Gin Rummy and Strip Jack Naked - a card game which ends in the forfeit of removing clothes.
Mr Moore said that, when they were naked, the defendant suggested “playing for dares”.
They continued playing and the defendant performed a sex act on the boy, who was 14 or 15 years old, and demanded the same was done to him, said the prosecutor.
Mr Moore said Jones admitted picking up his alleged 14 or 15 year-old victim and taking him on various activities, describing him to police as a “nice lad”.
He told police he couldn’t think of any reason why he would make false allegations about him.
The court heard he later told police he might have put his arm around the boy but nothing sexual took place, and described the alleged victim a “a very disturbed person”.
The trial continues.
