The two girls, cousins, were aged eight/nine and nine at the time of the offending. His disgraceful actions came some 15 years after he was previously convicted and jailed for molesting his biological daughter, who was the mother of one of his victims, Brisbane District Court heard on Friday. The southwest Brisbane man in his fifties, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, pleaded guilty to five counts of indecent treatment of a child under the age of 12, who was a lineal descendant, and one count of rape. The court heard the six offences occurred between January 1, 2018 and October 11, 2019, at three residences in Brisbane southwest.
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A gourmet gluten-free foodie drawn into being part of a staggeringly sophisticated multimillion-dollar tax scam to pay for a friend s luxury mansion has escaped jail.
Melinda Jane Trembath, 45, creator of food company Melinda s Gluten Free Goodies, apparently believed she was joining the lifelong family friend in researching cancer.
Instead, the mother of three became a vital cog in a $3.6 million bid to defraud the Australian Taxation Office through a fake research and development tax offset claim.
The family friend, who has been charged but is yet to face court, was described as the main instigator of the elaborate scam. She had lost her mother to cancer after she had previously taken part in clinical cancer research trials.
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Rapist masseur âgot thrillâ out of brazen sex attacks Masseur Charles William Davidson, who raped and sexually assaulted massage clients, may have got a thrill out of being so brazen, a judge has said.
Crime by Kay Dibben
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Subscriber only Charles William Davidson s sentence will be added onto the five and a half-year sentence he received for similar sexual offending against massage clients in 2018. A jury on Tuesday found Davidson, 71, guilty of seven counts of rape, 30 sexual assault offences and three counts of indecently treating a child, 15, between 2003 and 2015. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on two sexual assault counts and two others were dropped by the Crown mid-trial.
A 71-year-old predator was persistent and brazen as he continued to sexually assault women while giving therapeutic massages over more than a decade.
The first single complaint about Charles William Davidson made about six years ago culminated this week in a second jury finding the masseur guilty of sexually assaulting and raping women as they lay on his massage table.
Davidson was first jailed in March 2018 after being found guilty of 18 counts of sexually assaulting 10 women and raping one in 2014 and 2015.
A jury sitting in a Brisbane court this week found him guilty of seven counts of rape and 30 of sexual assault involving 16 women, and three counts of indecent treatment of a 15-year-old girl.