David Markham, prosecuting, said: “Whenever the opportunity presented itself Mr Levy would, in her words, ‘pounce’, treating her ‘as if I were nothing’.”
He told Wood Green Crown Court that the young woman did not complain because “she thought she was to blame”.
This belief was “rooted in her upbringing in the Orthodox Jewish community”, and that Mr Levy exploited her naivety and fears.
Mr Markham said that, when the woman complained of abuse, she faced hostility from the community for having a relationship with a married man. “She found herself vilified for disclosing years of sexual abuse,” he said.
The trial continues.