Winkie Ingomar

 

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Man traded petrol for sex with girls

August 24, 2007 – 9:50AM

He caused a “silent sadness” and bitterness that devastated an isolated South Australian indigenous community.

Next week, Aboriginal elder Winkie Ingomar, 52, will be sentenced for five counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with three teenage girls he plied with petrol in exchange for sex.

Ingomar lived in a caravan parked in a bush camp about 200 metres from the main road near the small Yalata community, 1,000km north-west of Adelaide.

It was there the three girls, aged 13 and 14 when the abuse occurred, went inside the caravan one at a time to have sex or be touched by Ingomar during January and June last year.

The meetings only stopped when another elder overheard the girls talking and he reported Ingomar to police.

At first he denied the charges but last month he pleaded guilty before the South Australian Supreme Court sitting in Port Augusta.

In a community impact statement submitted to the court, Yalata representatives said the abuse had shaken them, caused many to go into denial and created a “silent sadness” that hung over them.

“We felt angry, sad and all we wanted to do was burn his home,” they said.

“The community was in shock and it tore our community apart.

“The place felt sad. Even the white members of the community felt like this.”

The sentencing of Ingomar means so much for the people of Yalata that the SA Department of Public Prosecutions has granted a special request for a video link from the court to the isolated community.

They will be able to watch the proceedings as Ingomar is sentenced. Another link will be set up in Adelaide.

According to a pre-sentence report, Ingomar is an unqualified mechanic, who was brought up in a traditional way which gave him a purpose and direction early in life.

He attended school in Coober Pedy and later worked on nearby farms as a station hand before moving to Yalata.

He is now separated from his wife and three children.

Ingomar has no previous record of sexual offences but has been convicted of 18 violent crimes and spent three years in jail from 1996 to 1999.

He said he lived in a caravan because he liked to move from place to place “to avoid trouble such as the noise of other people”.

In an interview with a court social worker, he did not talk about the abuse of the girls but said he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he had sex with them.

The reports also said he knew the girls would sniff the petrol he gave them.

The only remorse he showed, the social worker noted, was of the pain and suffering that had been caused on himself and the community by the media attention of the case.

He said he had trouble sleeping because of the interest.

Yalata representatives have said they felt compelled to speak out against the abuse of the girls so other children could be spared the trauma.

They said the girls were terrified, shaken and in tears when they told them of the meetings with Ingomar and what he did to them inside the caravan.

“The girls were frightened to the extent that (they were) too afraid to look at men,” a community statement said.

“Because he had traumatised our girls we became transients and had to leave the community because of his actions.”

A mother of one of the victims told the court she had developed a drinking habit as a way to quell the anger and sadness she felt, but not even the alcohol could help.

One of the 13-year-old girls said she had to leave because there were too many memories.

“I was too scared to stay at Yalata, even with my own family,” she said.

“I would shake and I stopped eating properly and got sick.

“Mum didn’t want me to leave but she knew I needed to leave so my spirit could heal.”

The girl said she didn’t want to have a boyfriend and was afraid of men – a feeling all three victims shared.

“I feel like I am hiding away inside myself,” she said.

“I am hiding away from people and I don’t like to talk to people like I used to.

“I feel shame over what Winkie did to me.”

Another victim, aged 14, described the abuse to the court as “like watching a horror movie”, saying she felt scared he would come after her and was sometimes too frightened to sleep at night.

“I am frightened he will ask me to go with him, I am worried, I would be too scared to say no to him,” the girl said.

“When I look at him I see him like a devil sitting there.”

The 300 residents of Yalata say they now want to stand together as a family, as a whole community to fight child sexual abuse and hopefully see the end of what has been a traumatic experience.

“It doesn’t matter what colour you are or who you know, abuse can happen,” they said.

“We live in a multicultural society and abuse can happen.”

 

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Ronald John Hendrie

 

http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/12/28/198365_local-news.html

Victims reveal horror of child sex

Melanie Petrinec

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Cairns Post

THE extent of a former Cairns man’s abuse of children has been revealed as two victims seek compensation for the crimes that led him to be handed one of the longest jail terms for paedophilia in South Australia’s history.

Ronald John Hendrie was working as a fisherman in the Far North when he was sentenced to 18 months’ jail in 2007 for using cigarettes, lollies and gifts to seduce two Cairns children into having sex with him between 2000 to 2001.

Cairns District Court heard that one of the boys was 14 when he was first shown a pornographic movie at Hendrie’s Cairns home, and the second boy was aged 13 to 14 when he was invited to help the man make a film.

During sentencing, Hendrie’s defence barrister said the man was “not a regular offender”, despite having a criminal history that included a conviction for an unlawful relationship with another boy in the Far North in 1999.

But it has now been revealed the 66-year-old’s crimes against children span back to the 1970s, when he molested three children under the age of 12 in Port Lincoln for more than five years.

Hendrie was handed a 19-year sentence for the Port Lincoln incidents in July.

The victims of those crimes have now have hit out at South Australia’s $2000 cap on criminal compensation and revealed to Adelaide’s The Advertiser for the first time how Hendrie left their lives in tatters.

“My life doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. At the moment, I’m lost,” a male victim said.

A female victim, now in her 40s, said her abuse started when she was three and continued until she was 10.

 

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Paedophile Ronald John Hendrie likely to die in jail

• by: Investigations Editor Bryan Littlely
• From: The Advertiser
• December 27, 2011 12:00AM

A PORT Lincoln truck driver’s sex crimes are among the worst of their kind in the state’s history, a District Court judge says.

For the first time, some of his victims have revealed how the “unspeakably degrading acts” of Ronald John Hendrie, 66, destroyed their lives.

Hendrie, a pest controller and soft-drink transporter in Port Lincoln in the 1970s, is likely to die in jail as he serves one of the longest penalties handed to a convicted paedophile in this state.

This year Hendrie was sentenced to 19 years in jail, including 13 years without parole, for his sustained abuse of three children under the age of 12 for more than five years.

Now those victims have come forward to reveal more details of Hendrie’s crimes – details on which Judge Sydney Tilmouth would not elaborate when he sentenced the paedophile in July because they were so appalling.

To date, only a handful of people – the victims who faced Hendrie in the Port Augusta court, their family and those on the jury who determined his guilt – know the vulgarity of this predator.

Judge Sydney Tilmouth said that “the numerous and unspeakably degrading acts make this case one of the worst of its kind”.

The judge was measured in detailing the horrific crimes, calling them “appalling” and revealing they included persistent abuse over more than five years for each of the victims, all of whom were under the age of 12.

While guarded in his sentencing remarks, the judge explained that the sexual abuse included repeated acts of sexual intercourse, masturbation and fellatio for Hendrie’s “immediate, insatiable, prurient, paedophilic self-gratification”.

“Three innocent, defenceless and vulnerable children were degraded and humiliated to such an extent that they lost all sense of self-dignity. That has remained with them over the decades since,” the judge said.

“These events have resulted in enduring and long-lasting mental scars, scars that will never completely heal.”

One of his victims, a girl now in her 40s, said she was abused by Hendrie for about eight years.

“The abuse of me started when I was probably three and continued until I was 10. I was being taught how to pick up street kids and sexually abuse them … I was being groomed to be like him,” she said.

Another of the victims said he was abused by Hendrie three or four times a week for eight years from the age of eight. He claims he was tied up, raped and beaten. “My life doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. At the moment, I’m lost.”

Both have sought compensation from the Victims of Crime Levy but have been left disappointed that payments have been capped, resulting in just $2000 being offered to each of them.

“I am not doing this for money,” the male victim said. “But is that all a young life back then is worth? Is that what destroying my life was worth?”

The female victim also believed victims of child sex abuse deserved greater compensation and issued a warning to parents and children to be vigilant of abuse.

“I do support the stranger-danger message, but people also have to be aware that the biggest strangers can be those living with you – family and friends who are the people who are meant to protect you,” she said.

Hendrie’s sentence is among the harshest penalties handed down in SA. Former magistrate Peter Liddy received a 25-year sentence for his abuse of multiple victims.

Judge Tilmouth determined that Hendrie first started to abuse the female victim while living in Port Lincoln in the 1970s, when he was in his early 20s.

Hendrie has surprisingly avoided publicity over his crimes, despite also having convictions in Queensland and the Northern Territory for similar acts.

In March 2005, he was sentenced to 18 months in jail by the District Court in Cairns for three counts of indecent treatment of children and six counts of indecent exposure to children, committed between September 1999 and April 2004.

In October 2005, he was sentenced again by the Cairns District Court to 390 days in prison on two aggravated counts of maintaining an unlawful relationship with a child, committed between April 2000 and December 2001.

Next in July 2008, he was sentenced by the Supreme Court at Alice Springs on two counts of gross indecency on a male under 14 years of age and an aggravated assault. His term was two years and six months in prison with a non-parole period of 15 months.

The moment he was released on parole on that sentence, April 17, 2010, he was taken into custody over these three offences in SA.

“In fixing the sentence, which is about to be imposed, your relatively advanced age is relevant to the extent that the total sentence should not be too crushing,” Judge Tilmouth said.

“In all the circumstances an appropriate sentence is one of 19 years’ imprisonment, made up of eight years’ imprisonment each in relation to counts one and two and three years on count three.

“Given your advanced age and the fact you will probably remain in custody for the better part of your remaining natural life, an appropriate non-parole period of 13 years is set.

“Having reviewed the totality of the proposed sentences, I do not regard them as crushing. In fact they are rather merciful given the extreme nature of the abuse.”

 

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David James Cabrera

 

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Man caught with child porn twice breached sentencing terms

• SEAN FEWSTER
• From: The Advertiser
• January 13, 2011 12:00AM

HE WAS caught with more than 3000 images of child pornography but David James Cabrera avoided going to jail.

In August 2009, the Port Augusta Magistrates Court ruled a two-year good-behaviour bond, a $296 fine and the confiscation of his computers was penalty enough.

Just seven months later, however, police caught Cabrera in the midst of rebuilding his collection on a new computer. Yesterday, Cabrera admitted breaching the terms of his suspended sentence by committing two acts of possessing child pornography.

He is now liable to serve not only the original sentence, but also whatever penalty is deemed appropriate by the District Court.

Cabrera, 46, of Linden Park, first came to the attention of police in August 2008.

Officers found 1798 still images, and three videos, of child pornography on his IBM-brand computer, and a further 1350 still images on his Hewlett-Packard computer.

A year later, Magistrate Clive Kitchin jailed Cabrera for 13 months, with a six-month non-parole period. He suspended that sentence, however, on condition of a two-year bond.

In the District Court yesterday, Cabrera admitted breaching that bond on March 30 last year, when he was found in possession of more illicit images.

Lawyers for Cabrera asked for a four-week adjournment to seek psychological reports about their client.

Judge Simon Stretton agreed, saying he would view the images in the meantime via a secure laptop. “Once I’ve seen them, the images will be deleted so as to minimise the risk of any accidental dissemination of the material,” he said.

He remanded Cabrera on continuing bail for sentencing submissions next month.

 

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