A "creepy" Queensland physiotherapist repeatedly apologised to a patient after his fingers lingered on her vagina during a treatment session, only to do it again later that day to another woman at his clinic.
Veteran physio Scott Alexander Stuart Mackay, 48, sexually assaulted the women on his massage table within hours of each other at his business in Brisbane's north in January 2019.
The first woman arrived for knee pain treatment and was having an "innocent conversation" with Mackay during only her second session with him when he moved his hand to her thigh, her groin and then underneath her underwear.
He rested his fingers "between folds of my labia" for about a minute, the woman said in transcripts read to a District Court jury on Wednesday.
"He was talking all the time. It was his casual conversation the whole time that made it so confusing," she said.
He moved his hand away and ended the session before apologising to her "multiple times".
"He seemed really uncomfortable. He kept saying 'I'm sorry', I was so confused," she said.
The woman didn't say anything to Mackay about the assault at the time "because I was panicking".
"I was confused ... as to why this was happening. It took me over a day to process ... that it couldn't have been part of the treatment," she said.
The second woman arrived at the clinic later that day to receive treatment for back pain from Mackay, a physio with 25 years' experience.
Mackay placed his fingers across her vagina for about a minute as she lay on her side in what was her first appointment with him.
She went home in a state of shock and asked her roommate whether she had received treatment from Mackay as she processed what happened.
"She said 'no, because he was a bit creepy' and had never been there," the woman said in transcripts read in court.
"I considered telling her (what happened) but I didn't. I didn't want to characterise what I had experienced as sexual assault," she said.
She didn't tell anyone until July 2019 when she saw a Queensland Police Facebook post about the first woman's complaint and got in touch with officers.
"I froze, it took a few seconds to process what was happening," she said of the assault.
"I was in a state of shock. It wasn't like he brushed me (vagina) or anything, it was a very deliberate placement of the hand."
Mackay was on trial for one count each of rape and sexual assault.
He was found guilty on Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault.
He will be sentenced by Judge Julie Dick on Thursday.
