Ex-Arcare nurse Lode Emmanuel Palle suspended after vile ‘pick-up artist’ Facebook forum posts

A creepy Melbourne nurse boasted in a vile members only “pick-up artist” Facebook group how he manipulated women into sex.

Melbourne nurse Lode Emmanuel Palle admitted producing vile posts on a members only Facebook "pick-up artist" group. Facebook.

A Melbourne nurse vilified and degraded multiple women after he produced vile posts, images and videos for a “pick-up artist” Facebook group.

Lode Emmanuel Palle, 33, was found to have committed “professional misconduct” for a series of degrading posts which included depraved tactics on how to manipulate women into having sex.

Palle‘s lewd conduct occurred while he was an Arcare aged care nurse between 2017 and 2018, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal was told on Thursday.

The tribunal heard the closed, members only group was for self-described, so called “pick-up artists” who swapped “methods” to manipulate their targets.

The sleazebag group referred to special posts which outlined how a woman was talked into sex and the devious methods to keep her from leaving as “lay reports”.

Lay reports also include “graphic description” of the sexual encounter, the tribunal was told.

Sub-headings in the vile reports included the approach, the pull, cucking and a sickening tactic known as the “clutch move”.

Palle, from Chinatown, and other members boast about how they remove phones and other personal items and cancel Ubers to keep a woman from leaving or ruse her into coming back.

The vile group also have tactics for ‘LMR’ or last minute resistance, a phrase which describes a woman who has not consented to sex.

Big man Palle posted vile and degrading content which dehumanised women. Facebook.

These tactics include plying with women with alcohol.

Ben Jellis, for the Nursing and Midwifery Board, said Palle posted “graphic and derogatory” and “highly unpleasant”content.

Palle posted a lay report claiming he “pulled” an area bank manager, the tribunal was told.

“Smashed her for five rounds,” Palle posted.

Palle also posted compromising, semi-naked photos of the woman including an image which features him with photoshopped sunglasses, the tribunal was told.

Members were prompted to direct message Palle if they wanted videos of the “lay”.

“Some fairly troubling things are advocated in the post,” Mr Jellis said.

Palle also posted a sickening clutch move where he removed a woman’s phone and glasses out of her handbag so she had to come back the next day.

He then boasted about having sex with her again.

Diana Price, for Palle, submitted her client’s “fanciful” posts contained fiction, embellishment, and “improbable claims”.

Ms Price said Palle became part of the Facebook group after attending a pick-up artist forum in 2017.

Palle has been suspended.

However, the tribunal accepted the “sexually offensive” and “vilifying” posts were authentic.

Senior member Anna Dea said Palle’s posts “promoted the manipulation of women for men’s gratification”.

“The posts contained degrading and insulting descriptions of women,” Ms Dea said.

“The posts dehumanised women and treat them as objects rather than as human beings entitled to be treated with equality and dignity.”

Ms Dea also noted the posts promoted “manipulative, misogynistic and coercive” behaviour.

“We were very concerned there were posts designed to overcome a woman’s non-consent to sexual activity,” she said.

“We were concerned there were posts which depicted plying women with alcohol at a time to overcome … their last minute resistance.

“There was a real risk of harm or embarrassment … we were very concerned the promotion of this conduct, we anticipate, would instil fear in women.

“Taking their phone cancelling an Uber … hiding handbags and personal belongings … as a means we would term as coercive control.”

Ms Dea said the “disgraceful” and “in appropriate” posts called for “admonishment”.

The tribunal was told Palle, who was terminated by Arcare after the allegations first arose, studied nursing at Monash University Gippsland after migrating to Australia from the Philippines in 2013.

Palle, who has been suspended since May last year, was reprimanded and suspended for a further six months.

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