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Is this genuinely a case of non-consensual abuse, or a slave who decided for whatever reason she wanted out? I'm interested to see what others think. Is difficult to assess without all the facts, most importantly, how she came to be free of him and lay charges which could lend much to her situation and motivation, especially with her family contacts. Thought it interesting with the discussions we have here in relation to TPE, extremes, and limits etc. (http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,8813512%5E421,00.html )
Slave case man's brutal past
By Geoff Wilkinson
28feb04
VICTORIAN slavemaster Graeme Slattery terrorised at least a dozen men, women and children during a decade of depravity, it can now be revealed.
Victims of the sadistic abalone poacher have told the Herald Sun they were so paralysed by fear they could not escape his extraordinary power and influence.
Slattery, 42, was found guilty yesterday of 42 offences against a woman he treated like a slave.
A County Court jury at Ballarat deliberated for four days before convicting him of 10 counts of intentionally causing injury, eight indecent assaults, 22 assaults, one count of threatening serious injury and one of blackmail.
The offences included forcing the woman to drink motor oil, eat cow manure and snails and perform other disgusting acts.
"Robin", the woman beaten and degraded by Slattery between 1996 and 1999, last night thanked the jury for restoring her faith in people.
"It's an incredible world . . . you live with a mad man for three years, then you find out there are people who really care for you," she told the Herald Sun.
"I take pleasure in simple things now, like taking a bath, and I take each day with happiness."
Slattery, who pleaded not guilty, was acquitted of 21 other charges, including rape.
He showed no emotion as the jury foreman read the 63 verdicts. Neither did his wife and eldest daughter.
Julie Slattery was in court supporting her husband each day of the three-week trial. As she left the court on Wednesday she blew him a kiss and said, "Bye, spunk".
The jury of nine men and three women did not know Slattery had already pleaded guilty to assault, false imprisonment and fraud charges involving other victims.
The Herald Sun has spoken to three women who were bullied, beaten and humiliated in similar fashion by Slattery.
Robin said she was so frightened of Slattery's threats to harm her family she could not complain to a brother, who is a policeman, or another brother and sister who are ex-members of the force.
The jury was told that Robin was beaten almost daily during almost 12 months in Slattery's Warrnambool garage, which had no cooking, heating, washing or toilet facilities.
She was underfed, forced to go to the toilet in a bucket and hosed down on the lawn every few days while the Slatterys and their six children lived inside the house.
The guilty verdict included charges of forcing Robin to drink urine and eat Slattery's faeces.
Slattery, a former undertaker, sign writer and professed martial arts expert, has been remanded in custody since his arrest on June 26, 2001.
It can now be revealed that during his long reign of terror, which began in the late 80s, he also:
MADE a young man working for him sleep on a factory floor, fed him rice and noodles and hosed him down every few days.
FORCED the 19-year-old and an older male employee to work up to 70 hours a week without pay in the fibreglassing factory while using their ATM cards to steal their dole and pension payments.
ORDERED one of them to sand skin off the other's forehead with an electric sander to punish him for scratching a boat.
MADE the two men batter each other into submission in bare knuckle fights for his amusement.
MADE them sexually abuse each other in front of him and his friends.
FORCED them to make fraudulent loan applications which netted him more than $50,000.
Another of his female victims was frightened into submission after Slattery threatened to get bikies to scare her elderly mother in her home at night and have her two teenage sons raped by AIDS-infected associates.
During that woman's 18 months of intimidation and abuse, Slattery:
THREW her into the middle of Port Phillip Bay at 2am and took off in his boat because her 16-year-old son had not collected enough abalone for him.
RISKED the boy's life by making him dive despite being a chronic asthmatic.
PUSHED the woman out of a car on the Hume Highway at night, 60km from her bayside home and drove off.
STOLE presents from under the tree in her neighbour's home on Christmas Eve.
Another of Slattery's victims was a businessman he conned into fraudulently borrowing $1.34 million.
Slattery got nearly half the money and left the man destitute, sleeping on a park bench and facing a jail sentence.
Robin told the jury at Slattery's trial she made about 10 trips from Port Fairy to Melbourne for him with illegal abalone during the summer of 1996-97.
She said the abalone was sold for an average $25,000 a trip.
The jury was told Slattery called her "toe rag" and ordered her to have the word tattooed on her shoulder.
She gave evidence that she had been made to bang her head against walls, poles, trees and concrete paths, punch herself in the ears, run naked across roads and perform naked hand-stands for the amusement of Slattery and his diving mates.
Sobbing in the witness box, she said Slattery had turned her into a complete zombie.
Slattery did not give evidence and no defence witnesses were called.
The jury was told Robin's son and daughter, then aged 5 and 3, were also brutalised by Slattery.
The boy, now 13, gave evidence that Slattery had flushed his head in a toilet, made him lie down while he poured water down his throat, and forced him to dig a pole set in concrete out of the ground with a small garden trowel.
Prosecutor Peter Faris, QC, said outside court after the verdict that the public of Victoria should be proud of the excellent job Warrnambool detective Fred Hughson had done assembling the case against Slattery.
Mr Faris also thanked Slattery's victims for having the courage to come forward.
Slattery will be sentenced at a later date.
Several of Slattery's victims told police that one of his favourite expressions was, "It's all over red rover".
And yesterday, for the latter day slave master, it was.
Catalina
Slave case man's brutal past
By Geoff Wilkinson
28feb04
VICTORIAN slavemaster Graeme Slattery terrorised at least a dozen men, women and children during a decade of depravity, it can now be revealed.
Victims of the sadistic abalone poacher have told the Herald Sun they were so paralysed by fear they could not escape his extraordinary power and influence.
Slattery, 42, was found guilty yesterday of 42 offences against a woman he treated like a slave.
A County Court jury at Ballarat deliberated for four days before convicting him of 10 counts of intentionally causing injury, eight indecent assaults, 22 assaults, one count of threatening serious injury and one of blackmail.
The offences included forcing the woman to drink motor oil, eat cow manure and snails and perform other disgusting acts.
"Robin", the woman beaten and degraded by Slattery between 1996 and 1999, last night thanked the jury for restoring her faith in people.
"It's an incredible world . . . you live with a mad man for three years, then you find out there are people who really care for you," she told the Herald Sun.
"I take pleasure in simple things now, like taking a bath, and I take each day with happiness."
Slattery, who pleaded not guilty, was acquitted of 21 other charges, including rape.
He showed no emotion as the jury foreman read the 63 verdicts. Neither did his wife and eldest daughter.
Julie Slattery was in court supporting her husband each day of the three-week trial. As she left the court on Wednesday she blew him a kiss and said, "Bye, spunk".
The jury of nine men and three women did not know Slattery had already pleaded guilty to assault, false imprisonment and fraud charges involving other victims.
The Herald Sun has spoken to three women who were bullied, beaten and humiliated in similar fashion by Slattery.
Robin said she was so frightened of Slattery's threats to harm her family she could not complain to a brother, who is a policeman, or another brother and sister who are ex-members of the force.
The jury was told that Robin was beaten almost daily during almost 12 months in Slattery's Warrnambool garage, which had no cooking, heating, washing or toilet facilities.
She was underfed, forced to go to the toilet in a bucket and hosed down on the lawn every few days while the Slatterys and their six children lived inside the house.
The guilty verdict included charges of forcing Robin to drink urine and eat Slattery's faeces.
Slattery, a former undertaker, sign writer and professed martial arts expert, has been remanded in custody since his arrest on June 26, 2001.
It can now be revealed that during his long reign of terror, which began in the late 80s, he also:
MADE a young man working for him sleep on a factory floor, fed him rice and noodles and hosed him down every few days.
FORCED the 19-year-old and an older male employee to work up to 70 hours a week without pay in the fibreglassing factory while using their ATM cards to steal their dole and pension payments.
ORDERED one of them to sand skin off the other's forehead with an electric sander to punish him for scratching a boat.
MADE the two men batter each other into submission in bare knuckle fights for his amusement.
MADE them sexually abuse each other in front of him and his friends.
FORCED them to make fraudulent loan applications which netted him more than $50,000.
Another of his female victims was frightened into submission after Slattery threatened to get bikies to scare her elderly mother in her home at night and have her two teenage sons raped by AIDS-infected associates.
During that woman's 18 months of intimidation and abuse, Slattery:
THREW her into the middle of Port Phillip Bay at 2am and took off in his boat because her 16-year-old son had not collected enough abalone for him.
RISKED the boy's life by making him dive despite being a chronic asthmatic.
PUSHED the woman out of a car on the Hume Highway at night, 60km from her bayside home and drove off.
STOLE presents from under the tree in her neighbour's home on Christmas Eve.
Another of Slattery's victims was a businessman he conned into fraudulently borrowing $1.34 million.
Slattery got nearly half the money and left the man destitute, sleeping on a park bench and facing a jail sentence.
Robin told the jury at Slattery's trial she made about 10 trips from Port Fairy to Melbourne for him with illegal abalone during the summer of 1996-97.
She said the abalone was sold for an average $25,000 a trip.
The jury was told Slattery called her "toe rag" and ordered her to have the word tattooed on her shoulder.
She gave evidence that she had been made to bang her head against walls, poles, trees and concrete paths, punch herself in the ears, run naked across roads and perform naked hand-stands for the amusement of Slattery and his diving mates.
Sobbing in the witness box, she said Slattery had turned her into a complete zombie.
Slattery did not give evidence and no defence witnesses were called.
The jury was told Robin's son and daughter, then aged 5 and 3, were also brutalised by Slattery.
The boy, now 13, gave evidence that Slattery had flushed his head in a toilet, made him lie down while he poured water down his throat, and forced him to dig a pole set in concrete out of the ground with a small garden trowel.
Prosecutor Peter Faris, QC, said outside court after the verdict that the public of Victoria should be proud of the excellent job Warrnambool detective Fred Hughson had done assembling the case against Slattery.
Mr Faris also thanked Slattery's victims for having the courage to come forward.
Slattery will be sentenced at a later date.
Several of Slattery's victims told police that one of his favourite expressions was, "It's all over red rover".
And yesterday, for the latter day slave master, it was.
Catalina
