Orpheus Pledger pulled a woman to the ground by the hair and stomped on her face in a series of assaults over three months.
Orpheus Pledger, 31, faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday via video link from custody at Ravenhall Correctional Centre two months after he was arrested while on the run from a court ordered hospital visit.Police prosecutor Fionnuala Kennedy said Pledger attacked the victim repeatedly over a three-month period at a house in Melbourne’s north with one of the incidents captured on a security device.
Kennedy said the woman spent the night in hospital and had little recollection of the attack. When escorted home by police they noticed a motion-activated camera screwed into a light fixture in the woman’s lounge room, which had recorded the assault. He was later granted bail on the condition he was escorted by police to hospital for an in-patient mental health assessment. Pledger arrived at the hospital about 3.45am on April 23 where he repeatedly told staff he was going to “kill” the victim. He then fled the hospital at 9.30am and returned to the victim’s home to collect belongings, before being rearrested days later.
“The only reason I bailed him at the time was because there was nothing available for him to be … assessed in a prison setting. And there is no money in the hospital to have these important things assessed,” he said.
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