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The following podcast contains accounts of sexual assault.

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Got the call from the sergeant, told us that we had to turn out to this investigation, which was out in Thornbury.

The initial response will be from a division van, usually, so the call's gone through to

triple zero and it comes to them.

Depending on what's been reported, then lead to different departments.

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.

The main reason why it comes to us is because it was an unknown offender.

One of our key criteria is that an unknown offender is ours, the sexual crime squad.

Because the offender in this case had a knife.

So then we got told about that, but we also it came out that Timothy had stabbed him with his own knife.

So that in itself was something that I've not had.

That's Detective leading Senior Constable Brett Nagowski.

Speaking on last week's episode of Australian True Crime about a case he

investigated in 2019. At the beginning of that episode we heard the complainant in the case,

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