Sex pest bodybuilder Peter Valsamakis back in jail after posing as woman to rape man
A gay prostitute and serial sex pest bodybuilder with a history of drug use was up to his old tricks when he posed as a woman to lure and rape a young man who he then chased down the street while armed with a flower pot.
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A serial sex pest bodybuilder posed as a woman to lure and rape a man less than three months after getting out of jail for similar offending.
Peter Valsamakis, 44, pleaded guilty in the County Court on Monday to rape by compelling sexual penetration.
Valsamakis, a gay sex worker with a history of drug abuse and sexual offending, posed as a woman on sex hook up app Skout to lure his 21-year-old victim.
The court heard the pair texted and “sexted” after Valsamakis first contacted the victim on December 21 last year.
Valsamakis sent the victim “naked and nude” images of an unknown woman with brown hair.
In return, the victim sent naked photos of himself to Valsamakis.
The victim rang Valsamakis’s phone and spoke with a person with a “female sounding voice”.
Valsamakis invited the victim to his Newport home on December 25.
He told the victim to go to the backdoor, cover his head with T-shirt, take his pants off and get on “all fours” with his back to the door.
Valsamakis then committed lewd acts on his victim.
The victim thought “something wasn’t right” so he took off his blindfold and discovered Valsamakis between his legs.
“Are you f***ing serious?” the victim said.
Valsamakis grabbed the victim’s arm, demanded he be quiet and asked if they could talk about it, the court heard.
“F*** off, I’m calling the police,” the victim said.
The man punched Valsamakis twice but the bodybuilder retaliated by threatening to attack the victim with a flower pot.
Valsamakis, still armed with the flower pot, then chased his victim down the street.
The victim called police while being chased by Valsamakis.
Police raided Valsamakis’ home and seized Viagra but the convicted sex offender was nowhere to be found.
Valsamakis was later discovered laying face down in long grass not far from his house.
Police interviewed Valsamakis who admitted contacting the man but claimed the victim knew he was not a woman.
He said the victim wanted to “play a game” by asking Valsamakis pretend he was a female.
Valsamakis had been out of prison for just 75 days when he committed his latest offending.
The serial sex offender was sentenced to nine months’ prison last September after he pleaded guilty to procuring sex by fraud.
On that occasion, in almost identical circumstances, he lured a man to his Newport home after posing as a woman on online hook up site Locanto.
He was released last October after time served was taken into account.
Judge Patricia Riddell placed Valsamakis on a two-year community corrections order which he breached through the latest offending.
Judge Riddell – who also sentenced Valsamakis for similar offending in 2018 – presided over Monday’s plea hearing.
She said Valsamakis’s actions after the rape “aggravated” the offending.
“What does he expect is going to happen when the victim realises he is not a woman,” Judge Riddell said.
“It beggars belief … what does he expect the reaction is going to be?”
The court heard Valsamakis has a history of drug use and his sexual identity is “extraordinarily complex”.
Valsamakis — who appeared via videolink from Ravenhall — will be sentenced on July 31.
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