Registered sex offender Mario Sanchez who allegedly didn’t report contact with 11 children has case delayed
A court case has been delayed for a Beaconsfield dad and registered sex offender after he allegedly had contact with more than 10 children without reporting to police.
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A Beaconsfield father and registered sex offender who allegedly failed to report to police that he had contact with more than 10 children has had his court case delayed.
Mario Sanchez, 50, fronted the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on September 2 for failing to report contact with 11 children over a 13-month-period.
Sanchez was ordered to be registered on the sex offenders list for life in 2004, where he was also required to report any contact with children to police within 24 hours.
On Monday, Sanchez’s lawyer Mia Hyslop asked the court for an adjournment.
“We have made an offer and would like further time for the prosecution to consider it and for the matter to resolve,” Ms Hyslop said.
In July, Sanchez spent a night in jail over the allegations, after police alleged he had been in contact with 11 children between December 2023 and February 2024 without reporting.
The self-employed concreter allegedly failed to report contact with children on more than 40 occasions, where some of the charges related to children sleeping over at his family home.
He is also charged with the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old on a trip to Queensland in late 2023.
Police told the court Sanchez had allegedly “threatened a victim’s father and failed to report his contact for more than a year”.
Sanchez was released on bail, despite Magistrate Nunzio La Rosa’s reservations regarding his alleged offending.
“This is not individual activity, it’s the totality of time that makes this breach serious or in the upper range of offending,” he said in July.
On Monday, Mr La Rosa further extended Sanchez’s bail, agreeing to adjourn the matter.
Sanchez will return to the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on November 12.
