Sydney, Australia- A NEW South Wales woman, who made lesbian pornography with teenagers, will ask the High Court to clear her name so she can work with disadvantaged children.

Rebecca Jane Clarke [pictured] will seek to have her conviction erased, based on a controversial ruling that sex offenders can be acquitted if they “honestly believe” their victims are more than the age of consent.

Clarke, 23, who stars in a pornographic DVD she made with two girls, both 14, will argue her name should not appear on the national sex-offender register.

If the High Court does not quash her conviction, she will be banned from working as a counsellor.

Clarke, of Goulburn in NSW, is serving a two-year good-behaviour bond for producing child pornography and inciting an indecent act.

She and her co-accused, Renee Jean Malyschko and Daniel Troy Osis, made a DVD of six movies, with the teenage girls, in Adelaide in 2005.

At trial, Clarke insisted she “honestly believed” the girls were 17.

In December, 2007, the District Court ruled defence did not exist in law and imposed a suspended 12-month term, converted, on appeal, to a bond.

In June this year, the High Court heard “CTM” was one of three men who, in October, 2004, assaulted a sleeping girl, 15, in Coffs Harbour. He told court he believed she was 16 – the age of consent in NSW.

The High Court ruled the defence existed but CTM could not adequately prove it.