Frankston mum Stacey Currie faces court over graffiti demands for father ‘Chris’ to come forward
A mum who allegedly spray painted messages across Frankston in a bid to find Chris, the father of her then-unborn baby, has fronted court. But where was her baby daddy?
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The spray-painting pregnant woman who caused a social media storm in her public quest for her baby’s father “Chris” to contact her has appeared in court - alongside her long-lost lover.
Her vandalism exploits went viral online after she graffitied a range of Frankston public spaces demanding the soon-to-be dad step up to the plate.
Frankston woman Stacey Currie, 36, sat alongside the baby’s dad “Chris” – Leader has chosen not to give his full name – in a very brief appearance at Frankston Magistrates’ Court this afternoon.
Her lawyer said she intended to plead guilty to criminal damage and community corrections order breach charges, and her case was adjourned for sentencing next month.
The now mother- of- two became an online sensation after daubing her desperate demands all over Frankston barbecues, laneways and in public toilets in July last year.
In large letters she called for the future father to contact her, writing “Chris u need 2 talk 2 me b4 baby is born or don’t bother after”.
Alongside her very purple and very public physical pleas for “Chris” to come forward, she also begged for his help online.
She told her Facebook friends she needed him to come to her aid.
“I’m in hospital because I’m having contractions … how can Chris not show up,” she wrote.
“What is wrong with him … how can he just not care?”
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First revealed on the Frankston Community Noticeboard Facebook page, that post accumulated almost 32,000 comments and 14,000 shares.
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 in the future”.
Magistrate Gerard Lethbridge adjourned Currie’s case for sentencing on March 24.