- Former Crown Casino worker Stephanie Dadd-Zammit pleads guilty to rape by compelling sexual penetration
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A prison officer who was raped and choked by a woman he met on Tinder has told a court he now wakes in terror reliving the attack.
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The victim's assailant, Stephanie Dadd-Zammit, 35, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne County Court on Wednesday to rape by compelling sexual penetration and assault.
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The court heard Dadd-Zammit had raped her date in September 2024, after the pair had matched on dating app Tinder.
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Dadd-Zammit and the man had consensual sex on multiple occasions, but her behaviour became erratic after he told her he did not want to see her anymore.
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The first red flag came after the victim asked Dadd-Zammit to take the morning-after pill following unprotected sex.
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She 'initially declined'.
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Dadd-Zammit later sent the victim a Snapchat photo of herself taking the pill but became upset when she found out the victim had an 'active profile' on Tinder.
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Dadd-Zammit told the victim she was 'disappointed' that they were 'seeking different things'.
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She was also 'unhappy the relationship was over' and told the victim that she was 'going to go to work drunk' and 'unhinged'.
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Stephanie Dadd-Zammit, 35, pleaded guilty to rape by compelling sexual penetration and assault after meeting her victim on Tinder (stock image)
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The man left the Melbourne County Court on Wednesday after tearfully reading out his victim impact statement
'I warned you from the very beginning,' Dadd-Zammit told the man.
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On September 6, 2024, Dadd-Zammit rang the victim 99 times between 12.59am and 2.13am.
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At 12.38am, the victim received 'some kind of text-to-speech digital program' audio message prior to the 'barrage of calls'.
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'She is going to dox you.
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You don’t know who her family is.
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She is currently in a split, which means she no longer cares about herself or anything.
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She deserves to pay for her behaviour for once.
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She forgets s***.
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I have her Google account and Snap on my MacBook.
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I warn c***s about her.
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Good luck,' the audio message said.
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The victim was 'worried' he would be doxxed - that is, have his personal information exposed online - because Dadd-Zammit had been in his house 'unsupervised with access to his private documents and things', the prosecution alleged.
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He attempted to transcribe the audio message but accidentally sent it to a number belonging to Dadd-Zammit.
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The victim received a text message from a person purporting to be 'Anton' who claimed to be an ex-boyfriend of Dadd-Zammit's.
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Police later discovered it was Dadd-Zammit herself.
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Dadd-Zammit worked at Crown Casino for 12 years but was sacked after the Daily Mail reported her offending
'Anton' warned the victim against becoming 'entangled' with Dadd-Zammit, whom 'Anton' described as being an 'evil c***'.
However, 'Anton' also encouraged the victim to contact Dadd-Zammit because he would be 'rewarded if he did so and punished if he did not'.
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'Anton' also emphasised how loyal Dadd-Zammit could be and, if intoxicated, she would be 'putty in [the victim's] hands'.
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The alias also told the man he had to remain 'brutally honest' with Dadd-Zammit because 'the moment she senses bulls***, she will go AWOL'.
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The victim subsequently drove to Dadd-Zammit's home and was able to convince her to jump in his car and go for a ride.
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Dadd-Zammit, who 'appeared intoxicated and angry', asked the victim to drive her to his house.
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When she got inside, she told him he had 'made the biggest mistake of [his] f**ing life'.
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'I'm not leaving unless the f***ing police are called,' Dadd-Zammit said.
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The victim was present at court alongside his family
Dadd-Zammit then drank wine she found in the victim's pantry and 'made various statements about how she was splitting'.
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Splitting is a term used in psychiatry for when a person sees everything as black or white and is associated with borderline personality disorder.
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Dadd-Zammit drank for almost two hours before telling the victim that she was going to his bed and they could 'talk further there'.
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The victim said he did not want to sleep with her.
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When he went to his bedroom, he found Dadd-Zammit 'fully naked' on his bed.
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‘If you don't take off your pants you will see the real me and you will be f***ing scared,' Dadd-Zammit allegedly told the victim.
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The victim pulled his tracksuit pants down to the knee in an 'effort to appease her' but maintained that he did not want to have sex.
Dadd-Zammit, who was supported in court by her father, climbed onto the victim and held his arms at his side.
She also knelt on the victim's legs as he 'lay prone' and this prevented him from moving.
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Dadd-Zammit then raped the victim by compelling sexual penetration.
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