Rape-accused woman who appeared on Ch 7 show to face 40 fresh charges

A woman accused of rape and a raft of child abuse offences who appeared on a popular Channel 7 TV show has seen her list of charges double.

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A woman accused of rape who appeared on a popular Channel 7 TV show has seen her charge list double.

Proceedings against the woman, who cannot be named, continued in Richlands Magistrates Court on November 28 where it was revealed she faced an additional 40 charges on top of an existing string of allegations which include rape and a raft of serious child abuse offences.

The new charges span several locations across Queensland and include further rape and child abuse charges as well as allegations of observations or recordings in breach of privacy genital or anal region, torture, disabling in order to commit and indictable offence and assault occasioning bodily harm.

According to court documents, the woman was charged with 38 of the new charges on November 7 this year and another on November 10.

The charges date back several years.

The new list of alleged offences means the woman now faces some 80 charges.

However, one charge of common assault was dropped.

The woman’s defence lawyer requested an adjournment in order to gather more material on the new charges.

The woman’s partner, who also cannot be named, was also charged in October with two counts each of torture and common assault and one charge each of observations or recordings in breach of privacy and assault occasioning bodily harm.

The man has previously been charged with six counts of assault occasioning bodily harm allegedly committed between January 2006 and June 2008 and one count of assault occasioning bodily harm in company of another person on August 26, 2011.

The woman’s most recent appearance follows Magistrate Aaron Simpson ruling the woman could not be named by media for fear she might self harm after blasting “dehumanising’’ coverage of the matter by program A Current Affair.

It also came after she attempted to self harm last month.

The non publication ruling was scathing of coverage by Channel 9’s A Current Affair (ACA), saying it was “appalling’’ and had “dehumanised’’ the woman.

The high-profile case has been one of the first to put Queensland’s new sexual offence identification laws to the test.

Richlands magistrate Aaron Simpson enlarged the woman’s bail and set the matter down for committal mention on January 23, 2024 at Richlands Magistrates Court.