All of the offending involved meeting the girls online and asking them to send him sexually explicit images. He told one girl to perform oral sex on him or he would publish her photos, another two he sexually assaulted at his house. When interviewed by police in 2017 in relation to the prior offending, he told officers he was "Facebook famous" and had slept with hundreds of people. State prosecuting lawyer Sarah Kavanagh told the jury Ryan's trial related to another complainant who he met in January 2015 when he was 17 years old. "What began as harmless flirty conversation became something else entirely," she said. Ms Kavanagh alleges Ryan befriended the girl on Facebook and struck up a conversation. He then asked her to send him nude photographs and when she refused, he called her a "slut" and threatened to have her beaten up.

Feeling fearful, Ms Kavanagh said the young girl sent Ryan some photos on Snapchat, which she was notified he had screenshotted. The girl, who had been using social media since she was 11 years old, said the conversation turned ugly with Ryan after a few weeks of chatting online. “He began calling me a slut and tramp and threatening to have people beat me up in public [when I told him I wouldn’t send him nude photos],” she said. “I became very scared and felt my only option was to send naked pictures. “I sent them through Snapchat.

“[When I received a notification he had screenshotted the photos], I was extremely worried because I didn’t know what he was going to do with them." It's alleged that a few days later, Ryan asked her to go to his house. It's further alleged that when she refused, he told her he would post her nude images to her family and online. Scared, the girl agreed. "It made me really scared and worried," she said. "I replied to him and said I would meet him."

Ms Kavanagh alleged while the pair were in Ryan's room he attempted to have sex with her, and when she tried to push him away, he punched her. "She tried to stop the accused ... he punched her in the ribs and he told her he would continue hitting her if she didn't have sex with him," she said. It's then alleged that the girl tried to leave and Ryan straddled her and raped her. He then allegedly bit her hand, told the girl to text her mother she was staying at a friend's, and raped her again in the night several times. The state claims the girl fled in the morning while Ryan slept and blocked him on her social media accounts when she arrived home.

Charges against Ryan were laid after police were tipped off to other offending and searched his Facebook account, discovering more than 330,000 messages. An example of the types of derogatory messages he would send to girls included the words, "scummy slut", "you never deserve to be happy and forever used" and "know your place". The messages will be used as evidence against Ryan, as well as testimony from the complainant and a police officer and a police recorded interview with the accused. Ryan's lawyer, James Sutherland, said Ryan admits to meeting the girl and having sex with her, but claims it was consensual and he never threatened to post photos in an attempt to have sex with her. "These allegations are denied," he said.