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Kmart kidnapper pleads guilty to sexually assaulting seven-year-old girl

He lured her from a Kmart in Queensland - by Riah Matthews
  • 17 Jul 2019

A man who lured a seven-year-old girl from a Queensland Kmart before sexually assaulting her has pleaded guilty to the indecent act.

Sterling Free, 26, today appeared at Brisbane District Court and pleaded guilty to deprivation of liberty, taking a child for immoral purposes and indecent treatment of a child under 12 years, reports the Courier Mail.

Kmart kidnapper pleads guilty to sexually assaulting seven-year-old girl
Sterling Free. CREDIT: Facebook.

The incident happened on December 8 2018, when Free lured the girl from Kmart North Lakes shopping centre in North Brisbane where she was shopping with her mum. He told the girl: 'Follow me.'

The installation fitter then drove her in his car to bushland where he sexually assaulted her. She was then driven back to North Lakes where he dropped her off near a car wash. Her mum later noticed a scratch mark on her girl's back and reported the offence.

Sterling Free will be sentenced on October 8. 

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Riah Matthews is the Deputy Editor for that’s life! She started her journalism career in the UK at the Nottingham Post before moving to Australia and working on that's life! and the podcast How I Survived. Her work has also been published in the Daily Mail, Chat, Woman, Pick Me Up, Take a Break, Real People and on Newidea.com.au

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