The beauty of living in a country like Australia, where the rule of law (the time-honoured principle that everyone is subject to the same law, regardless of their status) is upheld and no one can hope to be able to get away with committing crime, just because of who or what they are and what…
Cases of children being indecently assaulted are traumatic for all who may be involved and can affect the child at the centre of such an ordeal long after the issue has been resolved. With more incidents of children being taken and indecently assaulted becoming increasingly common across the country, parents hold genuine concerns for their…
False accusations of violence are more common than you would expect! We see individuals regularly being victims of such accusations (commonly in domestic relationships) and as you can imagine, it’s not only daunting but also can be complicated at times, especially if you have committed no act of violence and the allegation is completely unjustified….
As a Prince of the Catholic Church takes up residence in “The Village of the damned” where Victoria keeps it’s convicted child abusers, Cardinal Pell’s lawyers are poring over the 235-page ruling of the judgment of the Victorian Court of Appeal to see if there is a way to launch an Appeal to the High…
A family of three Australians faced Court today, accused of forcing a woman from Afghanistan into “domestic servitude”. THE STORY The woman subject to the domestic servitude is from Afghanistan and the three accused of these crimes include her 39-year-old Australian husband, his 28-year-old brother and their 58-year-old mother in Merrylands, following a lengthy investigation….
On Friday, a District Court Jury in the Downing Centre only took two hours to return a verdict of not guilty to the famous ‘Wolf Creek’ actor. THE STORY A former housemate alleged that the actor had sexually assaulted, or raped, her over 40 years ago. The actor remarked outside the Court that he was…
30-year-old former police officer Vaughan Mark Hildebrand has pleaded guilty to 44 offences against a dozen women, including intimidation, stalking, harassment, using a carriage service to solicit child pornography, and 17 counts of rape. THE STORY In a sentence hearing in February last year, the Court heard that the former police officer blackmailed four victims…
The age of technology, social media and smart phones has boomed dramatically in the past 10 years. With the boom of these new advancements, it has become more common for people (including young children) to be posting and sharing inappropriate material online or simply to friends. It has also become very common for explicit sharing…
Imprisonment for luring a backpacker to his country farm to commit crime We see quite often in the media how vulnerable young females get lured into horrific situations and then get taken advantage of or used. The reported case of a European backpacker, a 24 year old woman, gives disturbing details of how her Gumtree…
A New South Wales District Court Jury has found Magistrate Graeme Curran guilty on seven counts and not guilty on two counts, of indecent assault, after two days of deliberations. The assaults of a teenage boy occurred in the 1980s. The victim was the son of Magistrate Curran’s friends, and they were thought to have…
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