Dimity Matters

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we hear from Dimity about the night she was sexually assaulted by a stranger in 2019, the investigation from her perspective, why she chooses to speak about her experience and how she feels about it now. Most importantly though, we learn lots of other things about Dimity.

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When it comes to reporting a sexual assault – if the assault has just happened,

· go somewhere safe, call triple 0 and ask for police.

· Don’t disturb the area where the assault happened.

· Don’t bath or shower.

· Don’t eat or drink anything.

· Don’t wash or discard the clothing you wore during the assault.

When it comes to reporting historical sexual assault,

that’s any sexual assault that happened days, weeks, months or even years ago, it’s never too late.

Delays in reporting sexual assault are very common for lots of reasons.

If you wish to report historical sexual abuse involving institutional or religious organisations, there’s a dedicated taskforce you can contact. It’s called the Sano Taskforce. You can phone 1800 110 007, or email [email protected]

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.5	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:46.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
0:54.0	The following podcast contains accounts of sexual assault.
0:59.0	Listener discretion is advised.
1:02.0	Got the call from the sergeant, told us that we had to turn out to this investigation, which was out in Thornbury.
1:08.0	The initial response will be from a division van, usually, so the call's gone through to
1:12.2	triple zero and it comes to them.
1:14.0	Depending on what's been reported, then lead to different departments.
1:19.0	So it went to the child and sex abuse unit, the initial response because of the sexual assault, they make an assessment and then they contact us.
1:27.0	The main reason why it comes to us is because it was an unknown offender.
1:30.0	One of our key criteria is that an unknown offender is ours, the sexual crime squad.
1:37.0	Because the offender in this case had a knife.
1:40.0	So then we got told about that, but we also it came out that Timothy had stabbed him with his own knife.
1:48.0	So that in itself was something that I've not had.
1:55.0	That's Detective leading Senior Constable Brett Nagowski.
2:01.0	Speaking on last week's episode of Australian True Crime about a case he
2:05.3	investigated in 2019. At the beginning of that episode we heard the complainant in the case,
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