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A police officer who was described by his male victim as ‘rapey’, has been convicted of sexual assault. Michael Charles Simpson was found guilty of the offence and has lost his job as a result. The senior sergeant was described as having an ‘illustrious’ 30-year career. He was part of Victoria Police’s internal ethical standards […]

A self-proclaimed ‘preacher’ has been charged with five counts of sexual assault spanning over seven years. Anthony Glumac, whose social media accounts also list him as a fitness educator and chef, was the subject of an extensive Police investigation. The 24-year old was arrested in Campbelltown after being charged with sexually assaulting a number of […]

A man who pleading guilty to filming private parts of a number schoolgirls at a Sydney Zoo has avoided a jail sentence. 49-year-old Justin McGufficke also pleaded guilty to charges of possess child abuse material based on photographs that were found on his phone. He was also sentenced in relation to filming up the skirts […]

Media organisations have successfully fought to overturn a non-publication order on the name of a Sydney Criminal Lawyer charged with sexual assault. Criminal defence lawyer Steven Mercael was charged by Police with sexually assaulting a female in December 2019. The 27-year-old had appealed to the New South Wales Supreme Court to prevent the publication of […]

A Sydney school teacher has been charged with a number of child sex offences. Police say Damien Scott Wanstall used the internet to arrange to pay a 14-year-old girl for sex. The 47-year-old deputy principal of Kellyville High School was apprehended by detectives last week. This arrest was captured by news cameras. He is currently […]

Former rugby league star Jarryd Hayne is no closer to ending his sexual assault saga after a Newcastle jury failed to reach a majority verdict. This comes just a week after another jury were unable to come to a decision in relation to similar charges against NRL player Jack de Belin. 32-year-old Hayne has been […]

An Iranian-born doctor has been convicted of sexually assaulting his patients while they slept. Ali Khorami will spend close to 4 years behind bars after a jury found him guilty of a number of sexual offences against five women, aged between 16 and 29. He joins a long list of doctors who have acted inappropriately […]

According to the latest BOCSAR statistics from March 2019, incidents of sexual assault in NSW are stable and did not experience a significant increase over the last 24 months. Between March 2018 and March 2019, there were just shy of 6,000 reported incidents of sexual assaults across New South Wales.  Of almost 6000 reported cases only […]