Police officer 'asked 14-year-old girl to elope'
By Adam Cooper
22 January 2019 — 6:13pm
A Victorian policeman groomed and abused a 14-year-old girl and tried to convince her to move to France so they could marry, a court has heard.
Mario Simon Didulica allegedly abused the girl between November 2009 and July 2010, when he was aged 38, a serving officer and married with two children in a Geelong suburb.
Close to the beginning of abuse, he gave the teenager a passport application so they could travel to France to marry, Melbourne Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday.
The girl hid the form in a locker.
Throughout the abuse, the police officer and the girl would meet when she was home sick from school and he was off duty, lead investigator Detective Sergeant Phillip Olsen told the court.
He made her regularly change mobile phones and advised her on how to keep the abuse secret, and the pair exchanged 30,000 messages, the court heard.
Mr Didulica continued the abuse despite the suspicions of his wife and the girl's parents, Detective Sergeant Olsen said. At one point the officer's wife confronted the girl for "stealing her husband".
About Christmas in 2009 the girl was seen wearing the same jewellery Mr Didulica had claimed was a present for a colleague who had cancer.
After quitting the force in 2010, Mr Didulica moved to Croatia with his son in January 2013, while he was the subject of a police investigation.
Croatia does not have an extradition treaty with Australia, but he was arrested when he travelled to Bosnia and Herzegovina for a funeral and then extradited to Australia last year.
The former police officer faces 20 charges including sexual penetration of a child, using a carriage service to groom, persistent sexual abuse and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Didulica is a dual citizen and, while he has surrendered his Australian passport, his Croatian passport is at his home in Zagreb.
He fronted court in Melbourne on Tuesday to apply for bail, assuring Magistrate Andrew McKenna that he would surrender his Croatian passport.
His wife Katica Didulica told the court she and her husband discussed him quitting the police force in 2010 and accompanying their son to Croatia in 2013, and denied both moves were sudden.
She said they had parted on good terms and their relationship was still in place.
The couple has also offered a $390,000 surety.
Defence counsel John Marquis said there was no evidence his client moved overseas because of the investigation into him, or that he contacted the alleged victim, who is now in her early 20s, after 2010.
But prosecutor Michael Roper said the risk of Mr Didulica fleeing overseas was too great.
"If he's granted bail, he will go overseas and we'll never see him again. That's the crux of it," Mr Roper said.
Mr McKenna said he was not prepared to grant bail until he had proof the Croatian passport had been handed to Australian officials. He adjourned the bail application for further submissions on Thursday.
Police try to cover up assault on woman doctor after they beat her up
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Police try to cover up assault on woman doctor after they beat her up
The Professional Standards Command is investigating the alleged assault of Kim Proudlove, who says she was punched and thrown by police when trying to help an injured man in Melbourne's CBD.
The doctor says police then attempted to cover up the assault.
Kim Proudlove, a slightly built stepmother of three who specialises in helping people with brain injuries, has spoken publicly for the first time about her encounter with police in Melbourne's CBD in April last year.
It comes after a joint investigation by The Age and ABC's 7.30 program revealed two other cases of alleged police brutality.
The first involved the wrongful arrest of an Aboriginal teenager, who claims he was handcuffed, thrown into a wooden fence and capsicum sprayed. The teenager says a policeman used water from a dog bowl to wash the capsicum spray from his face.
The second involved a policeman who kept his job and rank after slapping a shirtless, drunk disability pensioner in the head and hurling him to the ground in Geelong police station.
Dr Proudlove does not fit the profile of the vulnerable Victorians who are more likely to report a violent run-in with police.
She is an experienced doctor with a track record of helping people in need, including those badly injured in traffic accidents.
Her confrontation with police began just after 9pm on April 22 in Flinders Lane when she noticed a man lying in the fetal position in a doorway, bleeding and barely conscious.
She says she approached the police officers standing around the injured man and introduced herself as a doctor able to provide aid.
“I was very concerned by the large pool of fresh blood, and that no one was attending to him,” she said. She claims the police told her to go away, that an ambulance had been called and that the man’s injuries were self-inflicted.
"I told them regardless of it being self-inflicted, the bleeding should be stopped with basic first aid while waiting for an ambulance. He wasn’t moving and wasn’t talking."
Dr Proudlove said after she insisted the man needed help, police officers shoved her against a wall. She began filming the police on her mobile phone and says one of the officers then attacked her.
“There was an older policeman that came towards me, violently threw me to the ground, put my hands behind my back, and repeatedly punched me in the head,” she has alleged.“I kept asking them to stop and told them that they were hurting me. I had a police officer put his weight into the back of my knee which also was very painful. They handcuffed me then picked me up and took me to a police van and put me in the back.”
Police confiscated her phone but returned it to her in the back of the van, where Dr Proudlove discovered that the video she had recorded had been deleted. She filmed a fresh video recording her version of events.
“My right ear needed tissue glue to close the wounds, I had a swollen and bruised lip, I had a bump on my head, my knee was extremely sore causing me to limp and I had multiple other bruises and abrasions all over my body ... I was also in shock.”
Medical scans confirmed that Dr Proudlove’s knee was badly damaged and she had suffered a fracture to her leg and an anterior cruciate ligament rupture.
Dr Proudlove complained to police’s Professional Standards Command about her treatment within hours of her ordeal. After this, she was told she was under criminal investigation for resisting arrest and could face serious charges.
In December, police told Dr Proudlove she would not be prosecuted.
"The senior constable and sergeant involved in the alleged incident have been transferred to other duties while the investigation is taking place. We are unable to provide any further information as the investigation is ongoing," she said.
Dr Proudlove’s ordeal occurred just 19 days after The Age exposed a major police brutality scandal.
In April 2018, The Age revealed CCTV vision showing police officers assaulting a Melbourne disability pensioner during a mental health welfare check.
That footage led to the charging of several officers along with widespread calls for reform of the police complaints system, later backed by a Victorian parliamentary committee. At the time, police denied that reform was needed. The state government - wary of blow back from the powerful police union - stalled on its own plans for an overhaul.
On Monday, The Age revealed that a Victorian policeman had retained his job and rank despite being caught on CCTV footage assaulting a disability pensioner.
Images from CCTV footage showing the assault on 62-year-old Phil Dickson.
The CCTV footage shows Sergeant Michael Cooke repeatedly slap 62-year-old Phil Dickson in the back of the head and then throw him to the ground at Geelong police station in January 2013.
Mr Dickson, who did nothing to justify the use of force, was knocked unconscious and left bleeding. He was hospitalised after the attack.
The disability pensioner was arrested after police found him sitting in a parked car, four times over the legal blood-alcohol limit for driving. His drinking episode was prompted by his separation from his wife and, after his arrest and charging, Mr Dickson pleaded guilty to drink-driving and resisting arrest.
Sergeant Cooke pleaded guilty in the Geelong Magistrates Court to assaulting Mr Dickson.
The police sergeant was initially facing a more serious criminal charge of recklessly causing injury, but struck a plea deal with prosecutors to have the charge reduced in return for a guilty plea with no conviction.
After pleading guilty, Sergeant Cooke returned to the force from his paid suspension and faced an internal police disciplinary hearing in 2015.
The disciplinary hearing panel reviewed the damning CCTV footage of the assault, but decided against giving Sergeant Cooke a serious penalty. Instead, the panel placed him on a good behaviour order.
He remained a police officer until 2018, when he resigned.
Also among the latest disturbing cases is that of Tommy Lovett.
Mr Lovett was a skinny, baby-faced 18-year-old, riding a scooter to his grandmother’s home, when he was wrongly arrested in April 2016.
Police had earlier issued a description over the radio for a 40-year-old Aboriginal man with a goatee, who was wanted for stealing a vehicle and ramming it into a police car.
The Age has uncovered police statements and diary notes that support Mr Lovett’s claim that he was hurled into a fence and assaulted while handcuffed.
But by the time officers were directed to continue the search for the actual suspect, Mr Lovett’s body was bruised, grazed and bleeding. A neighbour would later recall hearing him quietly sobbing on the footpath.
Police vehemently denied the claims and an internal investigation found nothing wrong with Mr Lovett’s arrest.
Police confiscate woman's phone send her private nude photos to their brethren
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Police confiscate woman's phone send her private nude photos to their brethren
A former Sydney police officer is facing up to a year in jail after he took intimate images from an arrested woman's phone and sent them to fellow officers on Facebook.
Steven Albee, 29, was a senior constable working with the Nepean Police Area Command in the city's west, when he arrested the woman during a traffic stop in April 2017 after she refused a roadside drug test.
Police officer Steven Albee is facing jail time for sending a woman's nude photos to other police.Credit:James Alcock
The woman was taken back to the station and to police cells.
At the time of her arrest, the woman's phone was seized and it was examined using police investigative software.
The software generated a report which showed the phone contained four private photos: three depicting the woman's genitals, and one which showed her boyfriend's torso and penis.Lesson here? 'sexting' is not a good idea
Albee examined the photos at the police station then uploaded two to a Facebook group chat with four other serving police officers, which they used to chat while off-duty.
The photos were seen by all four officers and Albee informed them that the photos were of the woman who was arrested and had come from her phone.
Steven Albee leaves court on TuesdayCredit:James Alcock
The group chat was subsequently closed.
Officers from the Professional Standards Command began investigating the incident and spoke to the arrested woman, who confirmed the photos were for private use and she did not give permission for Albee to use them.
The woman said she was "upset and embarrassed" that the photos had been seen by other people.
Her boyfriend, who confirmed his photo was also for private use, said he was "angry and upset" by the situation.
In May 2018, Albee was charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend and was suspended with pay. In court documents, his address was given as St Mary's police station.
On Tuesday, a NSW Police spokeswoman confirmed Albee is no longer employed by the organisation. It is understood his employment ceased in late 2018.Interesting - organisation
Albee briefly faced Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty and did not speak as he left the court with a man and a woman.
He faces a maximum penalty of 12 months imprisonment, a fine of $12,600, or both.
He is due to be sentenced on February 12.
Corrupt cops become (corrupt) commissioners
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Monday, January 14, 2019
In the British colony called Australia, the police force is corrupt to its core.
An article by the Rupert Murdoch online publication news.com.au, focuses on the disappearance of a socialite, a high up public servant and floozy Marjorie Norval, which in reality also tells a tale of corruption in government that no doubt Norval was privy to.
Corruption in the state's police force was rife then as it is today, but this information is generally kept from the public news media, where whatever news trickles out is what the state's police force allow the publications to report, is in reality the tip of the iceberg.
From the article:
"But the cop who investigated, Detective-Sergeant Frank Bischof, later to become corrupt Queensland Police Commissioner, hastily decided that woman Henry Gaggin has seen was Mrs Ross, though he didn't make an effort to conclusively establish her actual whereabouts that weekend - or those of Dr Ross."
Just a reminder that Victoria Police was actively involved in illegal abortion clinics in the 1970's.
See: "Report of the Board of Inquiry into Allegations Of Corruption In The Police Force In Connection With Illegal Abortion Practices In The State Of Victoria", from 1971 in pdf (12.7MB, 169 pages) below:
See article on Marjorie Norval at:
Labels: ABC - Australia Backwards Country, GE - Government Exposé, Laws for Criminals, Money for Mates, Nanny State, PCP - Penal Colony Policies
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