The following podcast contains accounts of child sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie.

Last week, we reissued an episode from 2018,

one of our earliest episodes, in fact,

in which Alicia told us about the childhood sexual assault

that became a 26-year cold case.

The good news was that her offender, Sterling Bauer, was captured and convicted for the crime.

Alicia joins us today on the podcast and also on the YouTube channel to give us an update

on what's happened since then and the whereabouts of her offender.

This is Australian True Crime.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,

the Wurundri Woi Wurang people of the Koolan Nation.

So it's been such a long time.

I can't believe it.

It is.

And it was a sort of a jubilant episode in the end because it was all about your pushing after 20-something years, asking the police to open, 26, to reopen the case.

And you've got a conviction. So rare. We know the statistics in Australia. 100% terrible. And especially after such a long time. Yeah. So if you're listening or watching this podcast and you haven't heard the previous one, the last one that we put out, which was a replay of your first interview. Yes. I would suggest you do because in that episode, you did speak very candidly about what happened to you when you were a little girl. Yep. When you were seven. What has happened since then? Tell us about what's been going on in your life for the last seven, eight years. Well, I'm now a single mum. Okay. So I had a relationship breakup. Me too. Single months, yeah. So you know that in itself is quite tricky. Having two daughters has been quite tricky. Wanting to go to sleepovers and things like that. And you're just always wary. It's funny. I find that when I was a kid, we were at sleepovers literally every weekend. All the time. And now kids don't do them. And I think it's parents like us who just go, nah, or a lot of kids seem to be allowed at my place, I think, because I am a single mom. Yeah. I haven't stopped my kids if they wanted to go to a sleepover. I've just been, I guess I've chosen where they were allowed to go and sit over.

Make sure that I know the parents quite well.

You know, it can still happen at any time.

But yeah, just that.

But you can't relax.

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