Wolf Creek actor and married mother Megan Skye Blancada faces sentencing submissions for repeated sexual abuse of boy
An Adelaide model and actor who appeared in the film Wolf Creek lured a boy on his way to school into her car for sex, a court has heard.
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A self-described “beauty icon” pursued a boy, 13, for sex, telling him “how horny he made her” while dressed in his school uniform, a court has heard.
On Friday, the District Court heard details of Megan Skye Blancada’s “extremely serious” and “incredibly predatory behaviour” towards the boy, who cannot be named.
It heard Blancada abused the boy four times – including “luring” him into her car as he walked to school – amid “swirling sexual communications” on social media.
Blancada, a married mother of one, kept her head down and wept in the dock as her victim’s impact statement was read to the court.
The boy said Blancada had abused him during a traumatic period in his life and was “the worst thing that happened to me”.
“I was 13, young, easily manipulated, still learning and going through a lot of stuff... she started texting me, trying to talk to me,” he said.
“I was confused... she would compliment me as if she liked me... it felt nice, and this is how she tricked me.
“She would say how horny I make her, how I look hot in my school clothes, that I should send her photos... she manipulated me, used me, and raped me.
“I was so f---ed up mentally after all she had done to me... I always wonder if she actually cared about me or if she was just using me for her own f---ed up reasons.”
Blancada, 38, of Salisbury East, is a self-described model, author and “beauty icon” who has appeared on reality TV shows and in movies including Wolf Creek.
She pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the boy, who was under the age of 16, at various locations between January 2021 and November 2023.
Under amendments to state law in 2018, that offence carries a maximum sentence of life and cannot be suspended nor served on home detention.
Blancada, however, has argued she should receive only a good behaviour bond due to her “undiagnosed mental illness” at the time.
On Friday, Marie Shaw KC, for Blancada, said her client now knew how to “regulate” her previously-undiagnosed borderline personality disorder and “think things through” before “acting impulsively”.
She maintained a non-custodial sentence, with community service, was warranted – but Judge Anthony Allen said that was difficult to accept.
“There are not four isolated incidents, there is a course of conduct... there was ongoing, swirling sexual communication between them,” he said.
“She lured a boy on his way to school into her car for the purpose of a sexual act... that’s extremely serious... that’s incredibly predatory behaviour.
“I regard the offending as extremely serious, predatory, occurring over a long period of time, with communications designed to engage the victim in a sexualised manner... that’s the bottom line.”
He remanded Blancada on continuing bail for sentencing in March.
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