A 54-year-old man allegedly choked a 7-year-old girl to render her "incapable of resistance" as he continued to sexually assault her in a toilet, according to court documents.
Anthony Peter Sampieri has been charged with a number of offences over an alleged attack on a girl and two men who attempted to intervene in the south Sydney suburb of Kogarah on Nov. 15.
Police allege he raped and assaulted the child between 7.30pm and 7.45pm, in the bathroom of a dance studio along Railway Parade. He is also accused of filming acts of indecency he committed on the girl to use as child abuse material.
After two men confronted Sampieri, he allegedly stabbed one of them in the course of a struggle, leaving him with several stab wounds.
The man who was stabbed was treated at hospital and has been released. Sampieri was taken to hospital for treatment, where he was kept in custody, and was charged on Sunday afternoon with a number of offences.
Sampieri appeared via video link before Waverley Local Court in Sydney on Monday morning, wearing prison greens and with his head bowed.
He faces a number of charges, including sexual intercourse with a child under 10, choking a person to commit an offence, aggravated kidnapping, filming aggravated acts of indecency and using a child aged under 14 to make child abuse material.
One of the charges reads that he choked the girl "to render [her] incapable of resistance" as he continued to sexually assault her.
He has also been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm over the alleged stabbing.
Sampieri did not speak in court except to say "Yes" that he could hear the magistrate, and that he understood what had happened during the short hearing.
His barrister Ken Buckman told the court Sampieri had not applied for bail and that he had consented to undergo a forensic procedure as part of the police investigation.
He will next appear in court again via videolink on Jan. 23.