Alleged rapist in Kogarah sex attack arrested after deemed ‘fit by doctors’
The man at the centre of the alleged sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl in a Kogarah toilet block has been arrested after he was deemed “fit by doctors”. An investigation has been launched with the Police Commissioner saying his number one priority is “making sure he dies in jail”. WATCH THE VIDEO.
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The man at the centre of the alleged sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl in a Kogarah toilet has been arrested.
Anthony Sampieri, 54, has been taken to Maroubra Police Station to be charged by detectives.
The convicted sex offender was arrested by detectives this afternoon and taken to the police station just after 4pm.
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He was deemed “fit by doctors” to be moved from a medical facility to the police station.
Custody was handed over the police force and detectives are expected to lay a number of charges in relation to the attack at Kogarah on November 15.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has launched an investigation into why a leading senior constable at Kogarah Police Station did not charge Sampieri last month with making an obscene phone call when he was reported by a local store owner.
Mr Fuller said Sampieri should have been charged after a warning flashed up on the police COPS computer system to alert the officer that the convicted sex offender was on parole.
Mr Fuller said the investigation had “certainly moved very quickly”.
The officer had been suspended and he hoped to have more information by the end of the week.
Mr Fuller said whether Sempieri had a GPS tracker on his ankle or not was irrelevant.
He wanted to ensure he died in jail.
“Whether he had a bracelet or not is irrelevant. Should he have been on parole? Should he have got a longer sentence than six years for the crime? I mean I can waste hours thinking about that,” said Mr Fuller.
“My number one priority is making sure that Sampieri dies in jail,” said Mr Fuller. “And I will make sure that the investigation and all the evidence that goes before the court makes sure we never see him back on our streets again.”
Since the attack he has been under Corrective Services guard in hospital receiving treatment for liver cancer and injuries from the two men who stopped his alleged 30-minute attack on the girl.
The Daily Telegraph has exclusively revealed a string of missed opportunities by authorities to revoke Sampieri’s bail.
Parole officers did not breach his parole when he told them he was using the drug ice and police did not arrest him when he was reported for making obscene phone calls just weeks before the Kogarah attack.