October 18, 2018
Detectives have arrested and charged a 48-year-old Mondure man after an investigation into the alleged sexual assault of a female backpacker.
The 23-year-old Englishwoman was in Australia on a working holiday visa when the incidents allegedly occurred in January last year.
It will be alleged the man sexually assaulted the woman on a number of occasions while she was working on a rural property at Mondure.
Detectives from the Sex Crimes Unit, with help from police at Kingaroy and Murgon, executed a search warrant at Mondure on Thursday and arrested the man.
He has been charged with two counts of rape as well as one count each of sexual assault, deceptive recruitment, possession of a dangerous drug and failure to secure a weapon.
He is due to appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on Friday morning.
Police appealed for anyone with knowledge of similar offences to contact them.
A police spokesman said as the matter was before the court, it was not appropriate to comment on other aspects of the investigation.
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