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AAP General News (Australia)

06-21-2001

WA: Police describe rape of five year old

A five-year-old girl in Western Australia, who suffered severe internal injuries and
a fractured skull in a sexual assault, remains in a critical condition.

Police at Kununurra, in Western Australia's far north, have described it as one of
the most vicious sexual assaults they've ever seen.

Police allege a man took the girl into bushland where he sexually assaulted her and
tried to strangle her with a length of rope.

They say he fractured her skull with a rock before taking her to hospital, claiming
she fell over.

Detective Senior Sergeant ASHLEY GOY says the girl was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital
for emergency surgery, where she remains in a critical condition.

The assault happened on Monday night.

Senior Serg
eant GOY says the Northern Territory police sexual assault unit is collating
forensic evidence from the site of the assault.





A man appeared in a Kununurra court on Tuesday, charged with causing grievous bodily
harm, attempted murder and two charges of sexual penetration of a child under 13 years.

He was not required to enter a plea and was remanded in custody to appear in Broome
Magistrates Court on July 2.

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KEYWORD: GIRL (PERTH)

THIS MENTIONED TOWN HAS HEAPS OF ABORIGINALS.
 
Deaf Mute Abo walks free

AAP General News (Australia)

04-10-2002

NT: NT govt moves to protect Alice Springs from deaf man

The Northern Territory government says it's taking steps to protect the Alice Springs
community after a judge released a deaf-mute man accused of violent crimes because he
didn't understand the charges.

The Territory's Attorney-General PETER TOYNE says the government will take informal
measures with police and community representatives to ensure that ROLAND EBATARINTJA does
not pose a threat.

Dr TOYNE's told ABC radio the measures are only interim ones -- ahead of introducing
some serious law reform in the area.

24-year-old EBATARINTJA walked free from the Northern Territory Supreme Court yesterday
after Justice DAVID ANGEL ruled he was not fit to stand trial on assault and grievous
bodily harm charges -- after the stabbing of three people inclu
ding his wife.

Another judge found EBATARINTJA -- who's illiterate -- was also unfit to stand trial
for a 1995 stabbing murder because he could not understand the court proceedings or instruct
his lawyer.
 
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Title: Qld: Man attacked with broom, concrete block
Date: October 15, 2007 Publication: AAP General News (Australia)

AAP General News (Australia)

10-15-2007

Qld: Man attacked with broom, concrete block

BRISBANE, Oct 15 AAP - A man has been attacked with a broom and a concrete block during
a violent home invasion in central Queensland.

Three men knocked on the door of the 40-year-old victim's residence on Harbour Road,
Mackay, about 8pm (AEST) yesterday, police said.

They attempted to assault the man when he opened the door, but police said the victim
frightened them off with a large knife.

The men later returned armed with a concrete block and a broom and forced their way
into the house.

Police said one man threw the concrete block at the victim, causing a superficial cut
and
bruising.

Another man attacked him with the broom, causing a serious eye injury that required surgery.

Police said the offenders then left, assaulting a witness on their way out.

They were last seen driving away in a silver hatchback.

The offenders were described as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander appearance
and in their early 20s.

AAP rm/jm

KEYWORD: BROOM

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AAP General News (Australia)

06-21-2001

WA: Police describe rape of five year old

A five-year-old girl in Western Australia, who suffered severe internal injuries and
a fractured skull in a sexual assault, remains in a critical condition.

Police at Kununurra, in Western Australia's far north, have described it as one of
the most vicious sexual assaults they've ever seen.

Police allege a man took the girl into bushland where he sexually assaulted her and
tried to strangle her with a length of rope.

They say he fractured her skull with a rock before taking her to hospital, claiming
she fell over.

Detective Senior Sergeant ASHLEY GOY says the girl was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital
for emergency surgery, where she remains in a critical condition.

The assault happened on Monday night.

Senior Serg
eant GOY says the Northern Territory police sexual assault unit is collating
forensic evidence from the site of the assault.





A man appeared in a Kununurra court on Tuesday, charged with causing grievous bodily
harm, attempted murder and two charges of sexual penetration of a child under 13 years.

He was not required to enter a plea and was remanded in custody to appear in Broome
Magistrates Court on July 2.
 
Alice Springs Murder Capital

AAP General News (Australia)

03-28-2002

NT: Three charged with murder of woman in Alice Springs

DARWIN, March 28 AAP - Three people - one a 17-year-old girl - were charged with murder
today after a woman was stabbed to death in Alice Springs.

The 21-year-old victim collapsed in the Alice Springs suburb of Gillen about 11.30am
yesterday, a police spokeswoman said.

Bleeding from a single knife wound to the back, she died before an ambulance reached her.

A 44-year-old man, 38-year-old woman and the girl were arrested last night, the spokeswoman said.

The three were interviewed by detectives today and charged with murder.
 
Re: Alice Springs Murder Capital

AAP General News (Australia)

01-07-2000

NT: Man charged with Alice Springs murder of unidentified woman

DARWIN, Jan 7 AAP - A 37-year-old man appeared before Magistrate Warren Donald in Alice
Springs today charged with murder.

Clifford Ebatarinja is accused of murdering an unidentified 42-year-old woman who was
admitted to the Alice Springs hospital on Christmas day suffering from head and body injuries.

The woman died four days later. Ebatarinja, unemployed, was remanded until Thursday, February 3.
 
AAP General News (Australia)

04-27-2002

Qld: Young woman raped in Brisbane's Botanical Gardens

Police are appealing for help to find the man who raped a 19-year-old student nurse
in central Brisbane overnight.

Detective Inspector JOHN HEGARTY says the woman was waiting at a bus stop outside the
Botanical Gardens in Alice St about 3.15am (AEST) when she was approached by a man.

She had become separated from her boyfriend and was waiting for him at the bus stop.

Inspector Hegarty says a man offered to help her find him and went with her into the gardens.

But he then dragged her into bushes between Albert and George Streets, raped her and
bashed her head against a rock, causing her to lose consciousness.







The rapist is described as 175cm tall, of medium build and Aboriginal or Torres St
rait
Islander appearance, with a closely shaven head.

Anyone with information is asked to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 0000.
 
AAP General News (Australia)

01-30-2002

Qld: Rape claim dropped

BRISBANE, Jan 29 AAP - The family of a 13-year-old girl who alleged she was raped in
a park in Brisbane had dropped their complaint because of the pressure being put on her,
police said today.

A major alert was sparked when police said the girl told them a man followed her along
one of the major streets in Brisbane's CBD on Sunday before she was dragged into bushes
in a park and raped.

Detective Sergeant John O'Shea from Fortitude Valley CIB said the girl had been returning
home from the city when she noticed the man following her as she walked along Adelaide
Street at about 6pm.

Police issued a description of an Aboriginal teenager they said they wanted to question
about the attack which was alleged to have occurred in bushes in Centenary Park
.

A spokeswoman today said investigations by police continue.

"Detective O'Shea is still carrying out some investigations, but the girl's family
have withdrawn the rape complaint," the spokeswoman said.

"She has apparently not been handling it very well at all, and the family did not want
to put her under any more pressure by continuing with it."
 
Abo rapes 90 year old

AAP General News (Australia)

07-11-2000

NSW: Man pleads guilty to bash and rape of 91 year old woman

By Alex Tilbury

SYDNEY, July 11 AAP - A labourer charged with the rape of a 91-year-old woman pleaded
guilty in a New South Wales court today.

Stephen James Boney, 44, of Charles Street, Wee Waa, in the state's far north-west,
turned himself in to police in April after a mass DNA testing of the town's male population
behan.

The rape of Rita Knight, who was bashed in her Wee Waa home in the early hours of New
Year's Day 1999, attracted national and international headlines at the time.

Represented by Terence Duff from the Kamilaroi Aboriginal Legal Service in Moree, Boney
pleaded guilty in Moree Local Court, and will remain in custody in Tamworth until sentencing.

Moree detectives said no date had been fixed for sentencing.

The crim
e shocked and appalled the community in the small cotton town and led to an
unprecedented campaign to obtain voluntary DNA samples from all adult males to find the
attacker.

It is not clear whether Boney was one of the 500 locals who volunteered for the saliva-testing
procedure but at his first court appearance in April, Sergeant Brian Willett told the
court Boney had been DNA tested after he turned himself in.

Today Boney appeared before Magistrate Roger Prowse and pleaded guilty to breaking
and entering a building committing a felony, to wit, aggravated sexual intercourse without
consent, and aggravated break and enter with intent to use violence.

Boney's defence successfully applied for a suppression order to prevent details of
the case being aired.
 
AAP General News (Australia)

06-23-2001

NSW: O Shane reveals nephew convicted of rape

SYDNEY, June 23 AAP - Controversial NSW magistrate Pat O'Shane has revealed her nephew
is a convicted rapist.

Ms O'Shane told The Sun-Herald today her nephew served a jail sentence after being found guilty.

The revelation has come in the wake of Ms O'Shane's comments that a lot of women manufactured
stories about being raped.

Ms O'Shane caused uproar when she made the comments while expressing support for ATSIC
chairman Geoff Clark, who has been accused of rape by four women.

Mr Clark has strongly denied the allegations, and police have said they will not be
investigating them further.

Ms O'Shane told the newspaper she felt she was being "tried by media" for her comments,
but that she could cop it because she h
ad integrity, honesty, morality and ethics.

She also said federal politicians were guilty of mind-boggling hypocrisy in criticising
her while failing to acknowledge or address the problem of Aboriginal violence, the paper
reported.
 
AAP General News (Australia)

06-05-2006

NSW: Sexual assault was random attack: police

Police don't think the sexual assault of two girls aged 10 and 11 in a park near Newcastle
.. are linked to other incidents in the area.

They say the young friends were playing at Elermore Park .. at Elermore Vale .. when
they were approached by a man wielding a knife at about 2.15 pm yesterday afternoon.

The man forced the two girls into an isolated part of the park and sexually assaulted
them .. before one girl managed to escape and alert people in a nearby house.

The attacker's described as possibly aged in his 30s .. tall and of a medium build.

He could have short black hair .. dark brown eyes .. a large nose and a light complexion
.. and possibly be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander appearance.

He was wear
ing a black jacket with pockets and dark track pants.

AAP RTV kjd/smb/rj/cp

KEYWORD: GIRLS (SYDNEY)
 
AAP General News (Australia)

11-24-2001

NSW: Police release COMFIT images of men in sex assault

Police have released images of two men believed to have been involved in the sexual
assault of a 16-year-old girl in Sydney's west earlier this month.

The girl was walking past a reserve on Hill End Road in Doonside about 8.30am (AEDT)
on November 8 when she noticed four men drinking in the park.

Police say she was verbally abused by the men, who then grabbed and assaulted her.

She screamed and fought the men and was able to escape.







Police have released descriptions and images of two of the men, one of whom is described
as about 30 years old, of white European appearance, with a solid build.

He is bald with bushy black eyebrows and green/blue eyes, with a small scar near his
left nost
ril.

He also has a moustache and a tattoo of an open red rose - with writing across the
rose - on his shoulder.

The second man is aged in his late 20s, of Aboriginal appearance, with a thin build
and long, straight black hair.

He was wearing a gold-coloured ring on the middle finger of his right hand.

Anyone with information about the assault, or who was in the area at the time, should
contact Parramatta Joint Investigation Response Team on 9633 5141 or Crime Stoppers on
1800 333 000.
 
AAP General News (Australia)

04-23-2005

NSW: Woman sexually assaulted at home: police

A notorious Sydney rapist is not believed to be responsible for the recent sexual assault
of a woman in her inner-city home.

The woman, in her 20s, was sexually assaulted by a man who broke into her home in Waterloo
at midday yesterday.

The woman was in the bedroom of her townhouse when the man climbed through a window.

He threatened the woman and demanded money.

He then sexually assaulted her and stole some small items before fleeing.

Police say the assault is not linked to the crimes of a serial sex offender -- dubbed
the inner-west rapist -- who attacked 13 women between August 2003 and November 2004.

The man who attacked the woman at Waterloo yesterday is between 18 and 25 years old,
thin and of Aboriginal ap
pearance.

Anyone with information should contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.
ABORIGINAL OR ABORIGINES OR ABORIGINALS OR ABO CRIME
 
AAP General News (Australia)

07-11-2000

NSW: Man pleads guilty to bash and rape of 91 year old woman

A labourer charged with the brutal rape of a 91-year-old woman has pleaded guilty in
a New South Wales court.

STEPHEN JAMES BONEY, aged 44, of Wee Waa, in the state's far north-west, turned himself
into police in April after a mass DNA testing got underway on the town's male population.

The rape of RITA KNIGHT, who was bashed in her Wee Waa home in the early hours of New
Year's Day 1999, attracted national and international headlines at the time.

Represented by TERENCE DUFF from the Kamilaroi Aboriginal Legal Service in Moree, BONEY
pleaded guilty in Moree Local Court to two charges relating to break and enter at Ms KNIGHT'S
home and the sexual assault.

But BONEY'S defence successfully applied for a supp
ression order to prevent details
of the case being aired.

BONEY will now remain in custody in Tamworth until sentencing at a later date.





The crime shocked and appalled the community in the small cotton town and led to an
unprecedented campaign to obtain voluntary DNA samples from all adult males to weed out
the attacker.

It's not clear whether BONEY was one of the 500 locals who volunteered for the saliva-testing
procedure but at his first court appearance in April, police told the court BONEY was
DNA tested after he turned himself in.
 
AAP General News (Australia)

07-18-2005

WA: Man accused of hanging two children set to enter plea

A Perth court has been told that a man accused of hanging his two step-children in
a cemetery and seriously assaulting his de facto wife will officially enter pleas to the
crimes next Monday.

36-year-old TERRENCE LAURENCE DANN from Derby indicated during his last court appearance
last month that he intended to plead guilty.

DANN is alleged to have murdered the 14-month-old boy and his four-year-old sister
in Derby, 2,400 km north of Perth.

He's made a brief appearance in Perth's Magistrate's court, but has had his case adjourned
at the request of his new lawyer.

DANN had previously been represented by the Aboriginal Legal Service.

He will enter a plea on two counts of wilful murder and one
charge of grievous bodily
harm by video link-up.

He has been in custody since police found the bodies of the two children on April the 23rd.
 
ABOS KILL MUSLIM

AAP General News (Australia)

05-19-2006

QLD: Men in court over killing early morning walker

BRISBANE, May 19 AAP - Two men have appeared in a Brisbane court charged with murdering
a man who was taking his regular early morning walk.

Aaron Leslie Clancy, 19, and James Samuel Bond, 36, are both charged with the murder
and robbery of Safik Mohammed on January 4 this year.

The arrests come five months after Mr Mohammed, 59, of Inala, in Brisbane's south-western
suburbs, was attacked while taking his customary early morning walk at the Len Waters
Park, near his home.

Mr Mohammed was a prominent member of Queensland's Muslim community, and described
by his family as a devout Muslim who attended prayers each day.

Outside court today Mr Mohammed's son Safil Mohammed told journalists the past fi
ve
months were very difficult for the family.

"He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," Mr Mohammed said.

"He was a very religious man who taught the Holy Koran at the Mosque and he went walking
because he had high cholesterol and it was good for him."

Bond was arrested in Rockhampton in central Queensland and appeared in court there
on Tuesday, before being transferred to Brisbane on Wednesday.

Clancy was on remand in Woodford prison on other unrelated matters.

In a brief court appearance in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court this afternoon both
men said nothing and entered no plea.

The were represented by Sarah Laikand (Laikand) from the Aboriginal and Islander Legal
Service who asked for a committal mention date on July 31.

No application was made for bail and Magistrate Terry Duroux remanded both men in custody
to reappear on that date.

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KEYWORD: CLANCY

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AAP General News (Australia)

12-10-1999

Qld: Murrandoo Yanner sentenced to jail over pub brawl

By Suzanne Klotz

BRISBANE, Dec 10 AAP - Prominent Aboriginal activist Murrandoo Yanner has been given
a suspended jail sentence by the Queensland Court of Appeal over his role in a vicious
pub brawl.

The Court of Appeal found Yanner's sentenced should be increased, ordering he be jailed
for 18 months, but wholly suspended the sentence for a period of four years.

The Attorney General had appealed a Mt Isa District Court sentence in which Yanner
was placed on community-based orders.

However, in a split decision, one of the three appeal court judges, Chief Justice Paul
de Jersey, found Yanner should actually serve time in jail - recommending an 18-month
sentence suspended after six months,
with an operational period of four years.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Murrandoo Yanner should be actually imprisoned,"

Justice de Jersey said in his written judgment.

"His substantial episode of unprovoked vicious and brutal thuggery involved as many
as four innocent victims, people who were thereby both physically injured and emotionally
traumatised."

Yanner, 27, the chief executive of the Carpentaria Land Council, and his young brother,
Bruce Lee Yanner, 21, were involved in the fight outside the Burketown Hotel in May 1997.

Yanner had pleaded guilty in the Mt Isa District Court to three charges of assault
causing bodily harm and one of assault causing bodily harm in company, over attacks on
a woman, a Telstra worker, and a male nurse.

Bruce Yanner, who is now also a member of the Carpentaria Land Council, had been confronted
by the Burketown Hotel publican who set his dog on him after allegedly seeing him involved
in a break
and enter at the hotel.

The younger Yanner then went home to get his older brother and confronted the publican's
wife, Lesley Portch, pushing and shoving her to the point that her blouse came off.

When her husband came to her assistance a more general 40 minute melee began.

A male nurse who tried to intervene was knocked to the ground, and a police officer
was reduced to standing by and recording the brawl on tape and trying to settle things
down without arresting anybody.

The Yanner brothers then threw a 44-gallon drum through the office window of the hotel,
which alarmed two Telstra workers who came out and were bashed by the Yanners.

Murrandoo Yanner has a criminal history reaching back to 1993, which includes seven
previous assault charges, as well as weapons offences, wilful damage charges, bail breaches
and charges of unlawful assembly.

The Mt Isa District Court had placed him on three years probation, ordered him to perform
240 hours comm
unity service and fined him $2,500 over the assault charges which became
the subject of the Attorney's appeal.

Bruce Yanner pleaded guilty to assault and wilful damage, and was sentenced to two
years probation, 160 hours community service and ordered to pay $500 in compensation.

The Attorney General had strongly urged the Court of Appeal to jail them both, describing
them as having acted with "brutal thuggery" and "savagery".

The two prevailing Court of Appeal judges found Murrandoo should not actually serve
time in custody because the attack occurred two and a half years ago and he had not offended
since, and also because he had paid the compensation and completed most of the community
service.

The court chose not to interfere with Bruce Yanner's sentence.

AAP smk/sd/cjh

KEYWORD: YANNER NIGHTLEAD

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By Rebekah Cavanagh

May 06, 2009 01:19pm

POLICE are hunting a man who lured a six-year-old Territory boy into bushes and sexually assaulted him.

The young boy rode home and told his mother about the disturbing assault, reports The Northern Territory News.

The alleged predator was still on the run last night.

Police said the boy was riding his bike home after playing with friends when the unknown man approached him near his Smith St home in Alice Springs about 6.30pm on Monday.

The boy told his mother the man enticed him into bushland where he then performed oral sex on him and other sexual acts.

Police are appealing for assistance from the public in helping
to identify the man.

The alleged offender is described as being of Aboriginal appearance and was wearing a dark coloured long-sleeved shirt and black faded jeans at the time of the assault.

Detectives are investigating the incident and last night appealed to anyone who was in the vicinity of the Lovegrove Drive and Smith St intersection between 6pm and 6.30pm and who may have seen the boy riding his bike in the area to come forward.

Anyone with any information about the incident or who saw a stranger acting suspiciously in the area should phone police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
 
A man who intended to poke his girlfriend in the back with a knife to get her to cook him dinner faster ended up killing her, Darwin's Supreme Court has heard.

Andrew Norman, 31, from Yuendumu, had been drinking for three days with Rosebud Munungurr, from Yirrkala, when the pair went to a Darwin home in August last year.

Norman had cut up some meat and wanted Ms Munungurr to make damper.

When she delayed, he said to himself, "I'll stab her a little bit, one time."

Norman's lawyer said he intended to poke Ms Munungurr, but instead plunged the knife 10 centimetres into her back, severing an artery.

Norman has pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter and will be sentenced next week.
 
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