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Speaker 1: Yesterday I received a message from a concerned territorian who

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Speaker 1: had said that his goddaughter had gone to the hospital

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Speaker 1: a little earlier in the week, not last night, the

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Speaker 1: night before, to visit her sick grandfather. Now, as she

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Speaker 1: entered the hospital, I'm told that she was attacked by

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Speaker 1: a woman for no reason.

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Speaker 2: She was chased with a chair.

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Speaker 1: Now joining and this young girl is seventeen years old.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line is Alexi, her godfather.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Alexi.

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Speaker 3: Morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Mate. What happened earlier in the week.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't there, but I received a phone call from

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Speaker 3: my best friend and my goddaughter the next morning. So

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Speaker 3: his father's quite ill at the moment, so that he's

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Speaker 3: in hospital. So they went to visit him up at

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Speaker 3: the hospital about ten o'clock that night on Monday night.

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Speaker 3: As they entered the hospital.

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Speaker 2: There was.

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Speaker 3: A lady that was quite a rate and very radically

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Speaker 3: they were saying, and then she just my goddaughterparently glanced

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Speaker 3: her way and she she this lady lost it. She

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Speaker 3: picked up a chair and charged made a beeline for her,

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Speaker 3: charged her charge straight for her, and when they disarmed

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Speaker 3: it with a church they managedcript hold of her hair

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Speaker 3: and pull her hair and choked her. So, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: imagine as a seventeen year old. She was absolutely petrified.

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Speaker 2: Is she okay?

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Speaker 3: She says when I spoke to her yesterday, So I

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Speaker 3: sat down with it. So I took around and we

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Speaker 3: had something to had a coffee, and I said, okay,

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Speaker 3: you know, She goes, you know, she said no, no,

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Speaker 3: which is which is Godfather in Greek. She goes, she

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Speaker 3: had to be honest. She goes, I blacked out. She goes,

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Speaker 3: I was all scared. She goes, I didn't know what

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Speaker 3: was going on. She goes, I can't remember it. My

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Speaker 3: dad said that they disarmed the chair off her, but

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Speaker 3: they she broke loose and yeah, grabbed it by the

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Speaker 3: quite quick, but it happened. So this person's assaulted a minor.

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Speaker 3: And to be honest, the lack of response from everybody

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Speaker 3: has been has been really poor. And here the father's

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Speaker 3: very very annoyed, which is why he didn't want to

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Speaker 3: come on radio today. He didn't want to speak to

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Speaker 3: you in case he said something a bat or said

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Speaker 3: something that he shouldn't say. But he's obviously very distressed

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Speaker 3: and very very upset about what's happened and the lack

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Speaker 3: of response from everyone involved.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I will say, I know that we

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Speaker 1: have permission from you know, from your god daughter and

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Speaker 1: her dad for you to speak about the incident, because

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Speaker 1: they are seriously concerned. And as you've pointed out, her

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Speaker 1: dad's pretty worried that he might say something you know,

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Speaker 1: that he regrets live on the radio. So I can

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Speaker 1: understand that because I'd be absolutely furious if my daughter

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Speaker 1: had been set upon outside the hospital when I was

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Speaker 1: going up to see my sick dad.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I'd be ropable.

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Speaker 1: So I can't imagine how he must be feeling this morning,

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Speaker 1: and how your seventeen year old god daughter must be

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Speaker 2: What has been the response?

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Speaker 1: Were the police called and and you know what sort

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Speaker 1: of happened next?

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Speaker 3: So from my understanding, at about ten pm, Ir Father

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Speaker 3: Nick called the police at about quarter past ten, he

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Speaker 3: received he didn't get a call back until midnight that night.

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Speaker 3: He was assured that somebody would come out and see

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Speaker 3: them first thing in the morning the following morning. The

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Speaker 3: whole day past, nobody came out to see me. He

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Speaker 3: didn't get a phone call. Then only this morning he

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Speaker 3: him sometime today, and he voiced his concern saying, listen,

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Speaker 3: there's been an assault on a miner. Forget that she's

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Speaker 3: my daughter. She's a miner, and I haven't heard from

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Speaker 3: anyone or anything. She says, I'm just in my job parent,

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Speaker 3: it was her response, and Nick, does I understand that

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Speaker 3: he goes, but this is in a serious offense and

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Speaker 3: it's now been willing for twenty four hours, and nobody

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Speaker 3: because he wants to press charges.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well as you would.

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Speaker 1: I would as well if my daughter had been assaulted

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Speaker 1: outside the hospital. I mean, was there any indication from

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Speaker 3: I believe it's come to light. And this is just

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Speaker 3: from what I've been told that she's a psychiatric patient

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Speaker 3: there or had psychiatric issues, and she was with a

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Speaker 3: their care has no control over her. So yeah, I

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Speaker 3: guess maybe wrong and wrong place, wrong time, if that's

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Speaker 3: an excuse.

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Speaker 2: Oh goodness me.

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Speaker 1: I mean this kind of thing like when you are

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Speaker 1: seventeen years old though, you you know, for something like

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Speaker 1: that to happen, it can have a huge impact on you,

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Speaker 1: you know, in terms of your mental well being and yeah,

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Speaker 1: like it can just have such a huge impact in

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Speaker 1: so many ways. Alexi, do you know if it was

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Speaker 1: captured on hospital CCTV.

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Speaker 3: I'm not too sure. Sorry, I don't fantastic to see. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I would say, say the hospital issued him an email

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Speaker 3: basically just saying to him, if you'd like to make

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Speaker 3: a formal complaint, here are the email ogresses the people

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Speaker 1: Look, I would hope that it has been captured on

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Speaker 1: to speak to Nick and his daughter and and able

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Speaker 1: to you know, to make sure that the person who's

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Speaker 1: what she's done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's petrified, Kati, in all honesty, like even Yester,

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Speaker 3: when I was speaking to her, she was in tears.

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Speaker 3: Somebody moved close to her and she sort of came

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Speaker 3: move closer towards me. I said, it's okay, no one's

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Speaker 3: going to hurt, you know, And I'm just a bit worried.

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Speaker 3: So she she is scared, Oh no, I think she's

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Speaker 3: she's she wearing a bit of damage from it. I

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Speaker 3: think she will be fine with a bit of time.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I'm I'm so sorry to hear that that

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Speaker 1: terrible incidents that we do experience across the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 1: there's they're not isolated anymore.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you the.

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Speaker 1: Number of victims of assaults that I've spoken to, the

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Speaker 1: number of victims of crimes that I've spoken to. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've spoken to you before, Alexi, when your family has

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Speaker 1: been victims of crime. At other times it's we've all

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Speaker 1: just had enough of it. And I understand that the

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Speaker 1: police are absolutely under resource, but you know, when somebody

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Speaker 1: has experienced what is and what sounds like a serious assault,

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Speaker 1: an urgent response.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, And you're right, you know, we're done on

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Speaker 3: Born and Bred Territory and then it's just it's out

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Speaker 3: of control. And I think John stated, well, we need

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Speaker 3: and it's just something drastic needs to happen, because something

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Speaker 3: bad is going to happen, you know, and it's it's

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Speaker 3: not going to be good for anyone, and it's just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right, exactly right, Alexi. Look, we'll make

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Speaker 1: sure that we've got all the details. Just make sure

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Speaker 1: that Crystal gets all of Nick's details as well, so

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Speaker 1: that we can ensure that they're passed on to the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory. By the sounds of it, obviously the police

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Speaker 1: have called this morning, but so that we can make

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Speaker 1: sure that that detail is passed on, so that we

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Speaker 1: can then find out exactly you know, what is to

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Speaker 3: That'd be great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks Alexi. I really appreciate you having a chat

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. And please, you know, pass on

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Speaker 1: to your god daughter that we all hope that she

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Speaker 1: is okay. We will.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Katie, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks mate,