Frankston ‘Chris’ graffiti mum Stacey Currie sentenced for tagging crime spree
Melbourne’s infamous graffiti mum, who scrawled heartbreaking calls for help on public places in Frankston pleading for her baby’s father to contact her, has finally been sentenced.
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The infamous graffiti mum who became a worldwide viral sensation after daubing ‘Where’s Chris’ all over Frankston foreshore sites has finally been sentenced over her bizarre cry for help.
Stacey Currie was the talk of the online world over her purple and very public prose demanding her baby daddy come to the party.
On Monday the 37-year-old single mum faced the online Frankston Magistrates’ Court from her new home in the Bendigo area.
She pleaded guilty to criminal damage, bail breach and weapons charges.
The now mother-of-two became a social media sensation after daubing her desperate demands all over Frankston barbecues, laneways and public toilets in July 2019.
Scrawled in large letters the seven-month pregnant Currie called for baby’s future father to contact her, writing “Chris u need 2 talk 2 me b4 baby is born or don’t bother after”.
Her strange SOS was first revealed on the Frankston Community Noticeboard Facebook page which accumulated thousands of comments and shares and went viral across the globe.
Alongside her physical pleas for Chris (The Leader has chosen not to publish his surname) to come forward, she also begged for his help online.
She told her Facebook friends she needed his support.
“I’m in hospital because I’m having contractions … how can Chris not show up?” she posted.
“What is wrong with him … how can he just not care?”
Frankston Council responded quickly to the vandalism, removing the graffiti within days.
At the time then Mayor Michael O’Reilly said he would encourage those involved to consider more constructive and “less illegal ways” of communicating.
Currie also brought a dagger into the Frankston court complex in June last year, and was on bail when she launched her tagging crusade.
She appeared alongside Chris in court in January this year, but her cases were adjourned and since then have been delayed due to COVID restrictions.
Her defence lawyer said Currie had spent periods of last year homeless or living at the notorious Ambassador complex in Frankston so carried the knife around for protection.
He said she simply forgot the knife was in her bag on the day she attended court.
He said Currie was “shocked” at the massive amount of coverage the graffiti story received, and she had been inundated with interview requests from national and international media outlets, which she refused.
He said she was “experiencing difficult personal circumstances” at the time of the tagging, had not offended since and completely removed herself from the Frankston area.
The court heard Chris is in regular contact with the baby, who is now just a year old.
Magistrate Charles Tan said Currie’s methods of calling for help were unusual.
“It was an extraordinary way to try contact the father of your son about to be born,” Mr Tan said.
“You had no regard to the owner of the property and the clean-up bill heading their way.”
Currie was convicted and fined $1050 and ordered to pay $1000 compensation to Frankston Council.
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