“Allegations have been levelled at me, yes. Are they true? Absolutely not”
One of Australia’s leading actor’s Maggie Kirkpatrick is facing child sex charges after being accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl in the 1980’s.
The 74-year-old star of Prisoner has been charged with two counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency with a person under the age of 16 by Victoria Police’s Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team.
According to The Herald Sun the historical charges go back to the 1980’s and involve a 13-year-old girl, who, The Herald Sun reports, “was not connected to the entertainment industry.”
Maggie Kirkpatrick is best known for playing the character, Joan Ferguson or “The Freak” on hit 80’s TV show Prisoner. She recently performed in Wicked – and has had roles in Home and Away, Hey Dad! Blue Heelers and All Saints.
She told The Herald Sun the allegations were false.
“I need to go to court to have this ridiculous situation quashed. Allegations have been levelled at me, yes. Are they true? Absolutely not.”
The allegations against Kirkpatrick follow on from a string of high profile cases involving members of the entertainment industry.
Hey Dad! actor Robert Hughes was last year found guilty of 10 charges of sexual and indecent assault of young girls – his on-screen daughter and others, including friends of his real-life daughter – dating back to the 1980s.
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I wonder why there is silence on the issue? There are no posts at all. Why can’t women call-out other women?
If this was a man, there would be hundreds of outraged posts calling for “his” head. And rightly so I might add, but this is a woman and there seems to be silence ONCE AGAIN, showing that women do not call-out other women on sexual crimes or domestic violence?
Why is there no outrage about this? Even when mothers murder their children there is often pity and sympathy for the woman even with a dead child HOWEVER, the same pity or sympathy is not expressed if a father murders a child.
It seems mental illness is only applicable to mothers, and a father cannot suffer the same illness. If we want domestic violence addressed we must show the same outrage to female perpetrators as we do male perpetrators. There can be no lesser crime because the offender is female. Speak up my female friends against female perpetrators just as you would do against male perpetrators.
Calm down. I can only speak for myself but the reason I often speak out about sexual abuse/family violence where the perps are men is because I have been sexually assaulted by men and know many women who have and also know of many women who have been in abusive relationships.
In regards to this case, I don't know any of the details, so will suspend judgement until I do.