Max Sica child sex trial delayed until early 2013 to hear new evidence from alleged victim

MAX Sica's child sex trial may not re-commence until February after it was adjourned in order to hear new evidence from a 17-year-old girl who allegedly had a sexual relationship with the convicted killer that started when she was nine.

Brisbane District Court Judge Michael Shanahan adjourned the trial Thursday morning and ordered Sica's alleged victim be recalled to give further evidence to the court during a preliminary hearing, which is yet to be listed.

It came after the court heard new evidence tendered in the child's Victim Impact Statement that represented a "substantial change in the allegations" that had already been explored in her interviews with police and during earlier cross-examination.

"It seems to me the child, having given evidence in the normal way before a jury, as a result of the victim impact statement, she would be recalled to be further cross-examined in relation to the new allegation," Judge Shanahan said.


"It seems to me in these circumstances where the information disclosed in that paragraph of the victim impact statement as it's an allegation of a different nature to what the complainant spoke about in extensive police interviews and in earlier cross examinations.

"It's in the interests of justice to allow the accused to cross-examine those allegations."

Sica, 42, has pleaded not guilty to 21 sex offences, including two counts of rape and one of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child between November 15, 2004 and September 10, 2008.

Then aged 35 to 39, he was also charged with nine counts each of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent dealing of a child under 16.

Sica's alleged sexual relationship with the girl lasted from when she was nine until she was 13.

Judge Shanahan tentatively set aside two weeks from February 4, 2013, when the trial could recommence.

Earlier this week the court was told the girl, then aged 9, and her mother, moved in to Sica's home at Stafford with his parents and girlfriend in late 2004.

It heard the girl would spend time alone in the house with Sica while his girlfriend and the child's mother worked shifts at the family's pizza outlets.

The alleged relationship was revealed when the girl told school friends she was in love with an older man with whom she was having sex.

In July, a Brisbane Supreme Court jury found Sica guilty of the 2003 murder of the Singh siblings Neelma, 24, Kunal, 18, and Sidhi, 12.



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Please do click on the links and read ALL the facts.
In my opinion, if this mans name was not Max Sica, this case would have never made it to a court of law. Remember that all these allegations led Max Sica to be charged with sexual abuse of a minor.
Bail had been granted to him for this case.
In the mean time, he once more had a total character assassination by media regarding the charges. Two months after he was granted bail for these allegations, he was charged and arrested for the Singh murders.

Max Sica's sex case adjourned as court questions discrepancies in interview transcript

THE child sex trial of convicted triple murderer Max Sica has ground to halt again, this time so lawyers can fact-check a written transcript of a police interview with his alleged victim.

Brisbane District Court Judge Michael Shanahan adjourned the trial until Tuesday to allow prosecutor Todd Fuller SC to check the transcripts.

It came after the court spent more than an hour rewinding sections of the police interview because the words being said during the interview did not match what had been written in the transcripts.

``If this is going to keep happening, I'm going to stop the trial and the transcripts can be prepared properly,'' Judge Shanahan warned before lunch, when the interview had already run for 54 minutes.

But when the trial resumed at 2.30pm, Mr Fuller conceded a new transcript had to be prepared in the case of the child's second interview with police.

He said a staff member had been reviewing the interview for the past two hours in the hope of having a transcript ready this afternoon.

``It must have been at some stage saved incorrectly, that's all I can say,'' Mr Fuller said.

Judge Shanahan said it should have been done earlier.

He said there was a ''dramatic'' difference between what could be seen on the transcript and what could be heard on the interview and pointed to whole sections of the tape which had been left out.

Barrister Sam Di Carlo, for Sica, said he would need time to review the new transcripts before the trial recommenced.

He also suggested the second interview be re-watched from the beginning with the correct transcript.

Judge Shanahan adjourned the hearing until 10am Tuesday.

It's the second false start for Sica's child sex trial, which was initially scheduled to begin on Monday a week ago.

The trial had to be adjourned for several days in order to give the defence more time to respond to a controversial medical report which had been tendered by the prosecution.

Sica, 42, has pleaded not guilty to 21 sex offences, including two counts of rape and one of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child between November 15, 2004, and September 10, 2008.

He has also been charged with nine counts of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent dealing of a child under 16.

Judge Shanahan was told Sica's alleged sexual relationship with the girl lasted from when she was nine until she was 13.

Earlier today, the court heard recorded police interviews with the girl, who gave a slow and often painful account of what happened between them.

''It happened a lot of times... him having sex with me,'' she said.

The court heard the girl, then aged 9, and her mother moved in to Max Sica's home at Stafford with his parents and girlfriend in late 2004.

It heard the girl would spend time alone in the house with Sica while his girlfriend and the child's mother worked shifts at the family's pizza outlets.

The child told police how she had been ''mucking around'' with Sica on his bed when the relationship first started.

''He told me to put my legs around his neck,'' the girl, who was around five months away from turning 10 at the time, told police during the interview in September, 2008.

She said Sica had tried to remove her pyjama pants with his teeth.

The girl told police about a second encounter with Sica two weeks later.

Last week it was revealed Sica's alleged nine-year-old victim started documenting the intimate sexual relationship with him in coded-diary entries.

Prosecutor Todd Fuller, SC, said the alleged relationship was revealed when the girl told school friends she was in love with an older man with whom she was having sex.

In July, a Brisbane Supreme Court jury found Sica guilty of the 2003 murder of the Singh siblings Neelma, 24, Kunal, 18, and Sidhi, 12.

He received a non-parole 35-year jail term.

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