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.