The mother of the youngest alleged victim of Alan Jones continued to seek advice from the broadcaster after the teenager was allegedly indecently assaulted at Jones’s Fitzroy Falls farm, a Sydney court has heard.

The divorced mother told the Downing Centre court she had developed a pattern of not trusting herself and she continued her correspondence with Jones because: “I knew he knew about everything; he had an opinion about everything.

“I was in a web of dependency with Mr Jones,” the witness said on her last day in the witness box on Friday.

She previously said she corresponded with Jones after he allegedly kissed the 17-year-old and put his tongue inside his mouth out of fear Jones would withdraw his financial support.

During cross examination, defence barrister Claire O’Neill suggested the mother continued to correspond with Jones not because she was scared but because she wanted more money out of him.

O’Neill asked: “You did not continue to communicate with Mr Jones because you were scared of his…