A contract worker who allegedly sexually assaulted two students at an Adelaide Hills school he worked at has appeared in court for the first time.<\/p>\n
The man aged in his 30s, who cannot be named due a suppression order on his identity, is charged with two counts of indecent assault between April 2025 and May 2026.<\/p>\n
Court documents viewed by the ABC allege two female students were indecently assaulted by the man on separate occasions.<\/p>\n
The documents allege that one of the girls was indecently assaulted between April 1 and July 10, 2025, while the other girl was allegedly indecently assaulted in April this year.<\/p>\n
In a statement earlier this year, police said they were called to an Adelaide Hills school on April 27 “after reports a student had allegedly been assaulted by a contractor working at the site”.<\/p>\n
Solicitor Kevin Raison, who is representing the accused, told the Mount Barker Magistrates Court on Thursday afternoon that he had only just received paperwork showing there was a second alleged victim.<\/p>\n
He also asked the court for a suppression order to be put in place.<\/p>\n
“On a very preliminary view of the facts of charge, it appears that identification may be \u2026 an issue,” Mr Raison said.<\/p>\n
“It is clear that the investigation is not complete.<\/p>\n
“In all of those circumstances, it is my application [for a suppression].”<\/p>\n
The police prosecutor did not oppose the application.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Kathryn Hodder made an order to suppress the man’s identity and noted that it would be reviewed the next time the matter is before a court.<\/p>\n
The man will next appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A contract worker who allegedly sexually assaulted two students at an Adelaide Hills school he worked at has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3443,64,63,12753,14009,1108,48,15625,44,20637,19541,6671,13298],"class_list":["post-774887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-adelaide","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-child","tag-contractor","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-mount-barker","tag-news","tag-school","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assault","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}