On Saturday the 19th January 2013 at around 2.15 am it is alleged that a female was sexually assaulted at a home in Marshall Street in Wodonga. Melbourne and Wodonga police who are investigating the matter both confirmed that the victim was not seriously physically harmed. If you have been the victim of a sexual…
DetailsOn Monday the 7th January 2013 at around 4.00 pm a seventeen-year-old girl was walking from the boat ramp to the Anglesea Surf Life Saving Club when she was indecently assaulted by a teenage male aged around eighteen to nineteen years with red hair. The victim said that she turned to see the male before…
DetailsOn Thursday the 03-01-13 at around 7.00 pm a woman was attacked while walking through a reserve in Hoppers Crossing. The female victim managed to fight off the assailant who ran away. The female victim described the assailant as dark skinned with short curly hair and wearing black tracksuit pants. If you have been the…
DetailsBetween the 30-12-12 and the 04-01-13 five woman aged from twenty and thirty-five years have been sexually assaulted by a man riding a motorbike along bike paths in separate incidents in Epping, Mill Park, Reservoir, Coburg & Thomastown. Epping SOCAU detectives are appealing for public assistance and who described the assailant as being aged between…
DetailsOn the 01-01-13 at around 5.00 am a twenty-two-year-old female was attacked and sexually assaulted in a car park on Ballarat Road in Footscray who was later treated at the Sunshine Hospital. Police have arrested a twenty-six-year-old male from West Footscray in relation to the incident. For victims of crime support and advice call 1800…
DetailsOn the 04-01-13 at around 12.45 pm a thirteen-year-old girl was walking along Surf Beach Road in Cape Paterson with friends when an unknown adult male aged in his late twenties grabbed her from behind to her lower body before fleeing. If you have been the victim of a sexual or physical assault contact Victims…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 18-12-12 at around 3.00 pm a seventeen-year-old female was walking from a bus stop along Canterbury Road in Box Hill South when she was approached from behind by an unknown male of Asian appearance aged in his mid twenties who indecently assaulted her. Since August of this year eight similar crimes have…
DetailsOn Friday the 07-12-12 at around 6.00 am a twenty-eight-year-old female was asleep in a St Kilda Motel on Carlisle Street when she was awoken by a male assailant in her room. The assailant proceeded to sexually assault the victim as she lay in bed. The female then jumped out of bed and the assailant…
DetailsOn Monday the 03-12-12 at around 8.40 am a thirteen-year-old girl was walking to school in Melton when a male of Middle Eastern appearance and aged in his mid twenties approached her and exposed himself and performed a lewd act. The young female victim screamed and the assailant fled. Footscray Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation…
DetailsOn the 29-11-12 at around 10.30 pm a female was walking from Camberwell Railway Station when she was approached from behind and indecently assaulted. There have been eight other similar incidents in the eastern suburbs over the past four months. On each incident the female victims had just gotten off public transport and were approached…
DetailsThe Australian Crime Victimisation Survey 2010-11 estimated that 54,900 Australians aged eighteen years and over were the victims of at least one sexual assault in the previous twelve months. Statistics from Recorded Crime – Victims, Australia, 2011, showed that 85% of victims who reported sexual assault to police were female and that 50% of these…
DetailsOn the 26-11-12 at around 3.30 pm a sixteen-year-old female was crossing a footbridge over the Nepean Highway in Gardenvale when a male assailant approached her from behind and grabbed her around the waist. The assailant then attempted to drag the teenage victim into bushes but she managed to fight the assailant off and flee.…
DetailsOn the 25-11-12 at around 3.00 am a twenty-one-year-old female was walking along Swanston Street in Parkville when she was approached by an unknown male of Asian appearance. The male assailant then forced her onto the Melbourne University grounds and sexually assaulted her before fleeing. If you have been the victim of a sexual or…
DetailsOn the 18-11-12 at around 5.45 am a twenty-four-year-old female was attempting to flag down a taxi along Auburn Road in Hawthorn when a male, stating he was a security officer, stopped and gave her a lift. The male then drove for some forty minutes before parking in a driveway and sexually assaulting the victim.…
DetailsOn Friday the 16-11-12 at around 3.30 pm a thirty-one-year-old female was walking towards her motor vehicle in the Hoppers Crossing Railway Station car park when an unknown male assailant aged around twenty years approached her and after a brief conversation forced her into her motor vehicle where he proceeded to sexually assault her before…
DetailsOn the 16-11-12 at around 5.45 am a twenty-six-year-old female walked into her Essendon home from her back yard to be confronted by a male assailant in her bedroom who sexually assaulted her before fleeing. The assailant is described as being aged between his mid to late twenties and of Southern European appearance. Fawkner SOCAU…
DetailsOn Friday the 16-11-12 at around 1.30 pm a sixteen year old female left a Milk Bar in Wangaratta and was then followed by a motor vehicle containing two men aged in their forties. The vehicle soon parked across a footpath preventing the young girl from walking past. One of the males then asked her…
DetailsOn Friday the 02-11-12 at around 4.30 pm fifty-five-year-old female had a conversation with a male while travelling on a Burwood tram. The two got off the tram together and walked towards the Burwood Cemetery where the male proceeded to sexually assault her. The assailant was described as being in his early thirties and of…
DetailsOn Saturday the 03-11-12 at around 8.30 pm a nineteen-year-old female alighted from a tram in Camberwell when she was followed by a male of Asian appearance aged in his twenties. The assailant then grabbed the young victim from behind indecently assaulting her. The victim screamed and defended herself and managed to escape. Police believe…
DetailsOn Sunday the 2-10-12 at around 11.00 pm a male of Indian appearance aged around thirty years followed a female of a tram in St Kilda. The assailant then approached the female victim from behind and indecently assaulted her at which time she screamed and the assailant fled. If you have been the victim of…
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