A Waikato support worker who raped an intellectually disabled man, targeted him due to his mental impairment, a judge found. Gerald Christian Albert is now behind bars serving an 11-year jail term after a jury found the 53-year-old guilty of eight charges including one representative charge of having intercourse with the victim after a trial last year. Albert was sentenced in the Hamilton District Court in November, but his victim was still feeling the effects of what happened to him between 2005 and 2007, his mother said. However, she said both she and her son were pleased with the sentence handed down by Justice Glen Marshall and hoped they could now begin to move on with their lives.
May 8, 2018
Complete Care Physio Health Group will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Wilson in his Melbourne chambers.
May 8, 2018
Belgravia Health & Leisure Group Pty Ltd will put up a fight over a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) claim to be heard by Commissioner Cribb Court 11 – Level 5 in Melbourne (Bromley – Hoult).
May 8, 2018
Six applications by Estia Investments Pty Ltd (s.120 – Application to vary redundancy pay for other employment or incapacity to pay) will be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in his Sydney chambers.
May 8, 2018
A dog has savagely mauled a woman’s treasured poodle to death in a horrific attack in a Mornington retirement village. Annie, who didn’t want her surname used, was taking her beloved poodle cross, Jaxon, 12, on his regular late afternoon walk around the Peninsula Grange Retirement Community on April 17, when two roaming dogs from a property outside the village attacked. “All of a sudden two big, black dogs, I didn’t hear them, they came up behind me,” Annie said.
May 8, 2018
St Vincent De Paul Society NSW has a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) with which it must deal before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-3 – Level 11 in Sydney (Purcell).
May 8, 2018
A bag found on a jogging track was the key clue that led Hills residents to save an elderly woman who went missing from a retirement village on Sunday. Rosemary Prior, 79, was last seen at her retirement community in Bellevue Heights at 3pm. The alarm was raised yesterday morning and police began searching the area. A jogger on a nearby track off Federation Crt found Ms Prior’s bag and her beret on the path next to a gully. The jogger took both items to a nearby house and gave them to the owner for safe keeping. The owner, who contacted police and initiated a search which found the injured Ms Prior just metres from where the bag was found, said the jogger gave him the bag because he couldn’t carry it while running.
May 8, 2018
A Pakuranga man’s mum was nearly scammed thousands of dollars by someone from Christchurch. An Auckland family is warning people to check their credit histories after scammers tried to take out of thousands of dollars in loans under their mother’s name. Shanil Sharma from Auckland’s Pakuranga said his mum, a 56-year-old retirement village care worker, nearly lost $37,000 to scammers. Sharma, 35, said the scammers applied for loans to several banks and a string of finance companies over a year, using his mother’s details.
