Attacks on females by Anthony Sampieri shared pattern
The Kogarah Monster, Anthony Sampieri, raped a woman in 2012 in strikingly similar circumstances to the 2018 attack on a child that could see him die in prison.
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A methamphetamine binge, filthy phone calls to innocent women and a knifepoint abduction – Anthony Sampieri’s attack on a child in a Kogarah dance studio wasn’t the first to follow this chilling formula.
NSW District Court Acting Judge Paul Conlon, this week, began sentencing the man dubbed the Monster of Kogarah for his abduction and rape of a seven-year-old girl and 94 obscene phone calls that preceded it.
It emerged, following his arrest, that Sampieri was on parole for the rape of a 60-year-old woman near Wollongong in 2012 and had made disturbing phone calls.
He had lured her to his home, under the pretence of selling her some furniture, before cornering her in his bedroom with a knife.
The woman escaped his clutches, naked and bleeding, while Sampieri accused her of attacking him, documents released by the court this week state.
Sampieri’s second knifepoint sexual attack, last year, shocked the community.
But the chilling similarities between the two crimes have become even clearer after Judge Conlon released his sentencing remarks from the 2012 Wollongong rape.
“It was no doubt a terrifying and degrading experience for the victim, who will most likely suffer psychological and emotional scarring for the rest of her life,” the judge noted while sentencing Sampieri in 2013.
Sampieri, in the weeks leading up to the rape, was phoning women aged between 24 and 83-years-old and making vulgar comments.
“You’re so pretty, I seen your photo in the paper and want to lick your vagina,” he told one woman.
He would later make similar comments to women in the weeks before his November 2018 dance studio attack.
“My daughter has been sexually abused, I’m going to unzip my pants and I am going to bring out my big p****,” Sampieri told a maths tutor who he had tried to lure to his home.
The rapist told the court a story of drug addiction and a tough childhood after the Wollongong crime.
“He said he had been on a long binge of crystal meth during which he was drinking and taking Valium,” Judge Conlon said.
Sampieri claimed he had not slept in weeks before he abducted the woman.
“I plan to never use drugs or alcohol again … I have never given up on my recovery,” his evidence reads.
His psychologist, and the judge, believed Sampieri’s horrific assault on the woman could be a one-off if he stayed away from drugs and continued counselling.
“At 49 years of age there is nothing of a similar nature in the offender’s past and I can be satisfied it was very much out of character conduct, influenced by his apparent out of control addiction to ice,” Judge Conlon said.
But that didn’t happen.
Sampieri relapsed on parole, began calling women and staggered into the dance studio toilets to masturbate in a cubicle armed with a blade.
When Sampieri’s blood was tested after he raped the seven-year-old it contained methamphetamine and other drugs.
He blamed the attack on a “sexual mania” and “euphoria” caused by the ice in his system.
There are other troubling parallels between the two cases.
Sampieri had nylon rope and gaffer tape near his bed in 2012 and was clearly considering “even more serious offending” had the woman not fled, the judge said.
In Kogarah he used two tourniquets to bind his victim and stuffed toilet paper in her mouth to silence her.
Police also found pornography in his home on both occasions.
Police Commissioner Mick Fuller, following Sampieri’s second arrest, said he would see the rapist die behind bars.
That is a distinct possibility with three of Sampieri’s 17 current charges carrying potential life imprisonment.
His sentencing will continue in December.