A DUTCH backpacker repeatedly raped on a blind date while
holidaying on the Sunshine Coast has been awarded more than
$50,000 in criminal compensation by Maroochydore District Court.
In a written judgment on the civil action that became
available yesterday, Judge Keith Dodds ordered rapist
Dale Andrew Oliver to pay the 28-year-old woman $52,500
compensation for injury.
Oliver was convicted of five counts of rape on August 29,
2002, after a trial in the Maroochydore District Court in
relation to the offences which occurred at his Buderim home
on January 7, 2002. He was sentenced to seven years' jail.
A subsequent appeal against conviction was dismissed by the
Court of Appeal on November 22, 2002.
An affidavit provided by the victim and medical reports showed
she suffered severe post-traumatic stress after the incident,
which still continues to a lesser extent, and developed eczema
and a serious eating disorder from which it took her two years to recover.
The victim also described feelings of violation, loss of
self-esteem and self-confidence.
AAP (21-6-2005)
Leanne Edmistone
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