Victoria Police has been ordered to pay $85,000 to a policewoman falsely arrested over the sexual abuse of a child, after detectives mistook her ex-husband, 32, for a 10-year-old boy in an intimate selfie of the couple.
A policewoman who was arrested over false suspicions of child sex abuse will receive compensation after detectives mistook her 32-year-old former husband for a 10-year-old boy in an intimate photo of the couple.
Investigators questioned the woman about an intimate photograph that purportedly showed her with a child after she had given them her phone to help with their investigation into her husband. “At least some police officers, to this day, consider that the subject image shows her committing an offence against a child, notwithstanding that she has been officially exonerated.”She explained the photo was a “selfie” taken in a mirror, which had inverted the image.
Following a nine-day trial in July, Judge Julie Clayton found that Victoria Police had failed to establish they had reasonable grounds that the officer had committed an indictable offence. “At least some police officers, to this day, consider that the subject image shows her committing an offence against a child, notwithstanding that she has been officially exonerated,” Clayton said.
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