Accused Kogarah child rapist slapped with 87 more charges

The man accused of raping a seven year old girl in a Sydney dance studio bathroom choked the child until she was “incapable of resistance”, police documents allege.

A man accused of raping and choking a seven-year-old girl in a Sydney dance studio bathroom has been slapped with an additional 87 charges.

Anthony Peter Sampieri, 55, was charged in November with holding the young girl captive at knifepoint and sexually assaulting her in a men’s toilet cubicle about 7.30pm on November 15. Police documents allege the man choked her until she was “incapable of resistance” and that he filmed an act of indecency for the purpose of producing child abuse material.

Sampieri was also charged with stabbing Nicola Gilio who came to the girl’s rescue before a second man subdued him while police were called to the studio in Kogarah., south Sydney.

The alleged attacker also stabbed the dance student’s mother in the hand with a scalpel as she helped rescue her little girl.

Sampieri was refused bail following his arrest that same month.

On Monday, he was hit with dozens of fresh charges after investigators identified and interviewed potential victims who reported they had received offensive and obscene phone calls from him in the weeks leading up to the alleged 15 minute attack. Police allege Sampieri used his mobile phone to make up to 15 “offensive” calls per day from August 18 until the day of the alleged attack. In November, he allegedly made 13 calls. Three of those were on the afternoon of November 15 — just four hours before he is accused of walking into the dance studio.

After investigating his phone records, detectives went to Silverwater Correctional Centre — where Sampieri is being held — and yesterday charged him with 87 counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend. He has been charged with a total of 98 offences.

“The accused is currently before the court for sexual assault offences,” police bail documents allege.

“He has an extensive criminal history relating to sexual offences … He has no community ties … all offences are of a sexual nature.”

Anthony Peter Sampieri being escorted into a prison van last year. Picture: Hollie Adams.

Sampieri was on parole for rape when he allegedly made the harassing phone calls prompting a businesswoman to report him to police on October 25.

Two weeks after his arrest in November, a leading senior constable was suspended with pay following an internal investigation into the handling of a complaint prior to the alleged attack.

He remains in custody and did not appear today at Sutherland Local Court, where he was denied bail.

Sampieri faces becoming the first person to be jailed for life if convicted of having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 10 after the maximum sentence was increased from 25 years in 2015.

All of his outstanding matters will be heard in court next week.

— With AAP

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