Jason Humphreys was on bail for sex assault charges when he allegedly raped 13-year-old girl
The NSW Attorney-General is urgently looking into why a truck driver accused of raping a 13-year-old girl he met on Snapchat was allowed to use social media while on bail for allegedly assaulting a woman he met on a dating app.
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The state’s Attorney-General is looking into why truck driver Jason Humphreys was on bail for allegedly assaulting a woman he met on social media but not banned from using dating apps.
Humphreys, 39, accused of subjecting a 13-year-old girl he met on Snapchat to a horrific ordeal over several days, is due to appear before Parramatta District Court this week on charges of sexually assaulting and choking a woman in April last year.
It is alleged that he also met her on social media.
At the time, police refused him bail and then opposed bail being granted when Humphreys appeared at Mt Druitt Local Court, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
But in a decision now being questioned, the local court freed him on bail on several conditions including reporting three days a week to Liverpool Police Station but did not stop him from using social media to meet women.
Humphreys allegedly lured the 13-year-old into meeting him before police say he assaulted and sexually attacked her at a home in Sydney’s southwest between February 7 and February 12.
Police then allege the Lurnea truckie bundled her into his truck and assaulted her before sexually attacking her again as they drove from Canberra to Sydney.
“Immediately before the alleged sexual intercourse the accused (allegedly) slapped, elbowed and threw her forward inside a vehicle, causing her bloodshot eyes, bruising to her right shoulder, a cut bottom lip and other minor abrasions to her face,” police court documents claim.
Humphreys appeared briefly at Bankstown Local Court charged with six counts of common assault, two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm, seven counts of having sexual intercourse without consent with a teen and two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent.
He did not apply for bail and the case was adjourned to the same court on March 15.
Attorney-General Mark Speakman said that he has today ordered an urgent transcript of Humphreys’ previous bail hearing.
“Any allegations of child grooming and sexual assault are of immense concern,” Mr Speakman said.
“I have ordered an urgent transcript of the accused offender’s bail hearing which I will review.
As the matters remain before a court, any further comment from me at this stage would be inappropriate.”
It is the latest bail mix-up in the state’s courts.
Victims’ advocate Howard Brown said Humphreys should have been banned from using social media to prevent a risk of him reoffending.
“What you do is to mitigate the unacceptable risk,” Mr Brown said.
“You can ban a person from driving if they have been using a vehicle to pick people up and assault them. In the same way you can ban someone from using social media.”