An Adelaide magistrate has committed a man to stand trial in the District Court for the attempted rape of a 13-year-old schoolgirl after he told the court he “just doesn’t care anymore.”
Key points:
Anthony Stengewis is accused of attempting to rape a girl at a Gilberton bus stop in February
He has been in custody at James Nash House
The magistrate has put him down as pleading guilty
Anthony James Stengewis, 52, has been charged with attempting to engage in sexual intercourse without consent and assault with attempt to commit rape.
Staff at the secure mental health facility James Nash House, where Mr Stengewis has been in custody, told Magistrate John Wells that he did not want to appear in court this morning.
“He just doesn’t care anymore,” the staff told Magistrate Wells.
His lawyers then conceded Mr Stengewis had a case to answer.
Magistrate John Wells said he would take that as a “not guilty” plea before sending his case to the District Court in November.
In February, the court heard Mr Stengewis asked the schoolgirl, who was waiting at a Gilberton bus stop, if she had a boyfriend before allegedly pushing her into a garden bed and attempting to rape her.
“The male didn’t stop and there was no-one else around,” the prosecutor said while opposing bail in February.
“The victim started kicking the male to the stomach and groin area.”
The court heard Mr Stengewis was living in a rooming house in Medindie – two-to-three minutes walk from the alleged crime scene — and after the alleged attempted rape walked off in that direction.
A Perth man has been denied bail after it was revealed he allegedly shaved his beard to avoid identification over a sexual assault on a jogger in Broome last week.
Key points:
Dean Osborne has been charged with three counts of rape after allegedly attacking the jogger early on Friday morning
Police say DNA evidence and CCTV appears to link him to the offense
Mr Osborne was denied bail due to the seriousness of the allegations
Dean Osborne, 52, appeared in the Broome Magistrate’s Court on Monday, charged with three counts of aggravated sexual penetration without consent, over the incident in Broome’s north on Friday morning.
Police allege Mr Osborne, an electrician on a contract working in the tourist town, was walking in the opposite direction to a woman who was out on a run around 5am.
The court heard as he passed her, he allegedly pushed her into bushes and sexually assaulted her.
Several residents nearby heard the woman screaming.(ABC Kimberley: Jessica Hayes)
Several members of the public heard the screams as well as neighbors in surrounding houses, but despite attempts to stop the accused he left the scene on foot.
In determining bail, Magistrate Andrew Maughan asked the prosecution to determine the strength of the police case against Osborne.
Police said they had found DNA on the victim in “multiple locations”, including Mr Osborne’s possessions at the scene.
They said his legs and arms appeared to be covered in scratches from the alleged victim, and he was caught on CCTV going from the scene back to his accommodation.
Police also said when Mr Osborne was arrested late on Saturday evening, they believed he had shaved his facial hair so he could not be identified by the description officers had released to the public on Friday.
The court also heard Mr Osborne had two prior convictions, including indecent acts in a public place stemming from an incident in Perth in July 2019.
Despite his lawyer offering a potential $20,000 surety and protective bail conditions that would see him return to Perth via plane, Magistrate Maughan denied his application and remanded him in custody.
Broome detectives were in court to witness the decision. The investigation continues.
Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, “Declarations,” has run since 2000.
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University.
Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She lives in New York City. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city’s Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.
Just weeks after a damning WA parliamentary report into sexual harassment and assaults in the mining industry, a FIFO worker has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for repeatedly raping a colleague.
Key points:
Small and his victim worked for BHP at the time of the offenses
The assaults occurred in Perth, when both were on rostered days off
With time already served, he will be eligible for release in 2028
Jonathan David Small, 44, was found guilty by a District Court jury of six charges of sexually penetrating the 22-year-old woman without her consent, after they went out to dinner while they were on rostered days off in Perth.
Both worked for BHP at the time, but Small was sacked after the woman reported what happened to her superiors when she returned to her worksite, in the Pilbara, two days later.
Small was charged with eight offenses. He denied them all, maintaining the sex was consensual, but he was found guilty of six of the charges and acquired of the other two.
The court was told the sexual assaults included violence, with Small repeatedly choking, slapping, and pulling her hair, telling her “I can tell you’re not into guys.”
At one point the woman hid in the bathroom and tried to contact a friend for help but Small banged on the door and threatened to break it down.
She only came out when Small told her he would leave.
She went to bed but awoke to him undressing her before he raped her again.
The next day Small sent her text messages saying, “I’m so sorry for last night … please don’t hate me” and “no one knows … it’ll stay that way”.
Victim subjected to ‘callous’ attack
Judge Bruce Goetze described the sexual assaults as “prolonged and repeated”, saying it was “particularly callous” of Small to again rape the woman after she came out of the bathroom.
He said the comment to her about not being “into guys” was aggravating because it had the effect of denigrating and humiliating, and he also noted the assaults had involved physical force and coercion.
Judge Goetze said the woman had trusted Small as a work colleague and as a friend, but he had violated that trust in a way that would have a long-standing and emotional impact on her.
Small, who still maintains his innocence, will have to serve eight years before he can be released on parole.
With time already served he will first be eligible for release in July 2028.
Case comes in wake of damning report
The case comes just six weeks after the WA Parliament published a report into sexual assaults and harassment within the state’s mining industry.
It found both were rife in the “fly-in, fly out” workforce and that women within the industry had been subjected to what it described as “an appalling range of behaviours.”
The report, titled “Enough is Enough”, heard evidence from 55 witnesses, including women who detailed harrowing stories of their experiences.
One woman recounted being knocked unconscious in her donga and then waking up to find her jeans and underpants around her ankles.
Another testified about being told to “get on her knees” if she wanted a permanent job with a mining company.
The report contained 24 recommendations, including the setting up of an industry wide register to stop the perpetrators from working at different sites, and the establishment of a government run forum to document the experiences of victims.
A man convicted of kidnapping a woman and then raping her for several days in his Charlestown apartment was sentenced Monday. Victor Pena, 42, was charged with kidnapping and 10 counts of aggravated rape for allegedly holding the 23-year-old woman against her will and sexually assaulting her for three days at his Walford Way home in January 2019. After six days of testimony and evidence, the jury needed just two hours of deliberations to return guilty verdicts on all counts. Pena was sentenced to 29 to 39 years in prison by Judge Anthony Campo. Prosecutors said the state asked for a “murder type” sentence because the kidnapping and rape “really does murder someone.””When I think about how this affected me, I think about how I never fully came back from those days. A part of me died in that apartment and I mourn for the life I could have lived-was supposed to live,” the victim wrote in an impact statement. In testifying in his own defense, Pena claimed what transpired during the three days in question was consensual, and the victim asked him for help and wanted to go to his apartment.“And we started to have nice chemistry,” Pena testified via an interpreter . “I said I have an apartment, I had housing, and then, ‘Let’s go to your apartment,’ she said.”Earlier in the trial, the accuser testified that Pena sexually assaulted her multiple times and threatened her if she tried to leave “I didn’t want to die,” the woman told the court. The accuser said she feared for her life and Pena told her that he rescued her and they would start a family. Pena forced her to drink alcohol and fed her nothing but canned pineapple. A digital forensic specialist said 322 photos and six explicit videos of the victim were found on Pena’s phone. Detectives who found the victim described to the court finding a terrified woman. Until he took the stand, Pena was not present in the courtroom during testimony and was instead watching remotely from another room following inappropriate behavior and disruptive outbursts. During proceedings to seat a jury, Pena suddenly appeared naked on a monitor in the courtroom while he performed to lewd act. After about 16 seconds, the monitor in the courtroom was turned off. That jury pool was excused.
A man convicted of kidnapping a woman and then raping her for several days in his Charlestown apartment was sentenced Monday.
Victor Pena, 42, was charged with kidnapping and 10 counts of aggravated rape for allegedly holding the 23-year-old woman against her will and sexually assaulting her for three days at his Walford Way home in January 2019.
After six days of testimony and evidence, the jury needed just two hours of deliberations to return guilty verdicts on all counts.
Pena was sentenced to 29 to 39 years in prison by Judge Anthony Campo.
Prosecutors said the state asked for a “murder type” sentence because the kidnapping and rape “really does murder someone.”
“When I think about how this affected me, I think about how I never fully came back from those days. A part of me died in that apartment and I mourn for the life I could have lived-was supposed to live,” the victim wrote in an impact statement.
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In testifying in his own defense, Pena claimed what transpired during the three days in question was consensual, and the victim asked him for help and wanted to go to his apartment.
“And we started to have nice chemistry,” Pena testified via an interpreter. “I said I have an apartment, I had housing, and then, ‘Let’s go to your apartment,’ she said.”
Earlier in the trial, the accuser testified that Pena sexually assaulted her multiple times and threatened her if she tried to leave.
“I didn’t want to die,” the woman told the court.
The accuser said she feared for her life and Pena told her that he rescued her and they would start a family. Pena forced her to drink alcohol and fed her nothing but canned pineapple.
A digital forensic specialist said 322 photos and six explicit videos of the victim were found on Pena’s phone. Detectives who found the victim described to the court finding a terrified woman.
Until he took the stand, Pena was not present in the courtroom during testimony and was instead watching remotely from another room following inappropriate behavior and disruptive outbursts.
During proceedings to seat a jury, Pena suddenly appeared naked on a monitor in the courtroom while he performed a lewd act. After about 16 seconds, the monitor in the courtroom was turned off. That jury pool was excused.
A fiend tried to rape a woman as she walked her small dog on a Brooklyn sidewalk Saturday morning, cops say.
Video footage released by the NYPD shows the attacker approaching his 30-year-old victim from behind around 8:30 am near Woodbine Street and Ridgewood Place in Bushwick and place her in a chokehold.
He then wrestles her to the sidewalk behind a parked car.
The woman’s dog can be seen frantically barking as the man gets on top of the woman, footage shows.
Police said the perp continued to strangle the victim and assault her over her clothing before he fled east on Woodbine Street.
“This scumbag literally placed her in a chokehold and pushed her to the ground and almost choked her unconscious,” a police source told The Post on Sunday.
The victim originally turned down medical attention but was later treated at Interfaith Medical Center, police said.
She sustained a cut to her neck and bruising and swelling to both eyes, a police source said.
The victim was walking her dog before the suspect began to attack.NYPDThe man wrestles the woman to the ground attempting to rape her.NYPDThe man strangled the woman in daylight.NYPDI have fled east on Woodbine Street.NYPD
The suspect was described as about 30 years old and 5’8″ with a medium build, police said. He had his black hair in dreads, a mustache and chin hair, police said.
He was last seen wearing a black ball cap with a rose design on the front and also had on a black t-shirt, shorts and sneakers, according to authorities.
Anyone with information can call NYPD’s Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-75-PISTA.
