Police defend decision to tell the public about the incident when they did Crime by Natasha Emeck Premium Content Subscriber only TERRITORY police took four days to inform the public about a heinous incident where a three-year-old boy was allegedly raped by a stranger in the front yard of his Darwin home. Police issued a statement at 10.36am yesterday, acknowledging the incident had occurred in Karama on "Thursday evening" after a member of the public witnessed the incident. In 2018, police also did not publicly report the rape of a two-year-old girl in Tennant Creek until it was reported on by the media.