Dozens of women complain about rape accused Daniel James Stoneman in court documents

Dozens of women have flooded social media to share their experiences of a wedding singer charged with raping four women, court documents reveal.

Daniel James Stoneman (Facebook image)

Dozens of Queensland women who allegedly had encounters with a popular wedding singer – before he was charged with rape, choking and sending sex videos without consent – have flooded social media to share their experiences with him, court documents reveal.

Explosive court documents obtained by The Sunday Mail reveal that there were up to 40 comments about Daniel James Stoneman on private Facebook page “Are We ­Dating The Same Guy?” outlining his alleged behaviour towards women in the Brisbane and Gold Coast areas.

The documents, filed in Brisbane Supreme Court last week during Stoneman’s successful bail application, also include Facebook messages sent to his mother to warn her that women had reported him to police for sexual harassment and soliciting them for prostitution.

Stoneman, 34, of Logan, is facing 53 charges as he is accused of ­raping four women he met on dating apps and social media, and sending sex videos of four others.

One of the alleged victims said she had been contacted by hundreds of women who had all said, ”Yeah, he tried to slide into my DMs and was really disgusting.”

Daniel James Stoneman (Facebook image)

A woman told police she saw two posts about Stoneman and his behaviour towards women in the Brisbane and Gold Coast areas on a private Facebook page called “Are We Dating The Same Guy?”

“There were 40-plus comments from women who have, or were reporting, various ­levels of things,” the woman told police in her official statement, tendered in the Sup­reme Court.

“I think one girl said Dan started talking to her at a dog park in Brisbane, because he was watching a friend’s dog.

“Then he was very sexually ­forward with her, showing sex videos.

“Another girl messaged me personally after I did the ­report (to police).

“She said that they’d gone home together and then she just wasn’t feeling it. And then he was very forceful with her, and she shoved him off and said no. Then he wouldn’t leave her house the next day.”

One post to the group by an anonymous member attached to a photo of Stoneman’s dating profile says: “Ladies please be careful when chatting to this guy... he shared an explicit video with a woman via Instagram direct message to me saying ‘this could be you’.”

Many of Stoneman’s alleged victims told police that they contacted each other via Instagram before he was charged.

One of the posts from Facebook group Are We Dating the Same Guy?

Stoneman is also accused of burning a woman’s arm during an argument, court documents reveal.

“At least you’ll remember not to start arguments anymore,” Stoneman allegedly told the woman after she ­allegedly told him: “This is gonna scar.”

She alleged he intentionally put her left wrist on to the hot stove element.

Stoneman’s mother Pia Stoneman, 65, told the court she had been a high school teacher for 45 years.

In response to an April 2020 Facebook message telling her “girls have gone to police to report your son”, Mrs Stoneman told the woman, “We have not been completely aware of all of his behaviours online or have fully understood the severity of them until now.

“We will have discussions with him and stress the seriousness of his actions, we are also considering professional help.”

Five months later, the woman again sent Mrs Stoneman a Facebook message, this time attaching screenshots of messages her son had allegedly sent to women, claiming he had been harassing women again.

One message posted by a woman on Facebook and forwarded to Mrs Stoneman said: “I told him that he has the worst reputation and is known as ‘Dick Pic Dan’ (but) that wasn’t enough of a deterrent.”

Police bodycam footage of Daniel James Stoneman’s arrest

Stoneman, who went to one of Brisbane’s best and oldest Catholic boys’ schools, St Laurence’s College in South Brisbane, is also accused of punching a hole in the wall of a woman’s apartment.

He denies the charge of wilful damage and his lawyer told the court that the woman admitted to a witness to causing the damage herself.

The alleged victim, who says she was raped in mid-2023, told police she believes there may be up to 40 women who have had “adverse experiences with the defendant”, the court documents reveal.

She alleges when she confronted Stoneman about the alleged rape at her home when she was trying to sleep, he said words to the effect of: “Oh, I just figured you were such a sexual person that it would make you feel better.”

One alleged victim told police that Stoneman strangled her until she lost consciousness and he continued to have sex with her while she was unconscious, and that he recorded videos of them having consensual sex without her permission and sent them to other women on social media.

Police allege they first became aware of Stoneman when a woman complained via alternative reporting options (ARO) – which is not an official complaint – in July 2019 that she had been raped a month earlier.

A digitally altered image of Daniel James Stoneman (Facebook)

But it wasn’t until four years later when a second woman complained to police via the same ARO in November 2023 that triggered police to begin a major investigation in January this year, which sparked further complaints from other ­alleged victims.

Police charged Stoneman with sharing intimate images of four women after they seized his phone from his parents’ home at Shailer Park in Logan on March 1 and allegedly found the videos on his phone.

Prosecutors allege he met victims on dating apps Tinder or Bumble then moved his flirty communication with them on to social media, mostly through Instagram, then arranged to meet up with them in person, often at his music gigs at trendy bars around Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

One alleged rape victim, who says in her police statement that she feels “broken and violated” by Stoneman, is alleged to have started a Facebook group to get his alleged victims together.

Defence counsel Craig Eberhardt, KC, submitted the charges were disputed, that the case “will be long and complicated” and that it could possibly take five years to complete as there may need to be multiple separate trials.

Daniel James Stoneman (Facebook image)

“The evidence of each of the complainants on the more serious charges (rape, attempted rape and choking) is entirely uncorroborated,” Mr Eberhardt states in his written submissions filed in court.

Mr Eberhardt alleges that one of the alleged victims’ credibility was damaged because another witness alleged she was the one who had punched holes in the wall of her apartment and not Stoneman.

He alleges another alleged victim “makes no mention of being responsible for starting a Facebook group disparaging (Stoneman) to potential clients and persons generally”.

Mr Eberhardt alleges the alleged victim told a witness that she “launched the Facebook group to try and get other women together who had issues with” Stoneman.

He also alleges that the first woman to complain to police in an informal ARO in 2019 told them she had consented to the sexual conduct.

However police allege that when she made her formal complaint in December 2023, she alleged she did not consent.

Daniel James Stoneman (Facebook image)

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