Marc Bargero: Boxer lost appeal of a sexual assault case of a 15-year-old girl at Sydney’s northern beaches
An ex-professional boxer who is convicted of sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl has lost his appeal. Here’s the latest.
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An ex-champion boxer who once went head-to-head with Anthony Mundine has lost his appeal over a sexual assault of a teenage girl who was drunkenly passed out on a bed.
Almost a year after he was jailed, Marc Bargero’s appeal was dismissed on Wednesday following his conviction of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent with a person under the age of 16 and intentional sexual touching of a child over the age of 10 in a judge alone trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.
On August 26, 2022 Bargero was sentenced to three years in prison, with a non-parole period of one year and six months.
Bargero sought to appeal his conviction in the Court of Criminal Appeal on the grounds of a miscarriage as a result of the findings, Judge Gartelmann failed to consider Bargero's version of events and the verdicts being unreasonable.
The offender argued that the trial judge rejected his denial of offending.
The incident occurred on the northern beaches in June 2020, when the 15-year-old victim went to her friends’ mothers’ house, where the offender was drinking.
Bargero and the victim were both drinking alcohol before the victim fell asleep in the living room – the offender carried her upstairs and put her to bed before taking her pants off.
She woke to the offender performing an oral sexual act on her before running downstairs and immediately telling those present about what had occurred – police were called to the residence.
Bargero will be eligible for release in February 2024.
The offender had a professional career totalling to 42 wins from 61 fights from 1994 to 2010.
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