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A dangerous repeat child sex offender who stalked a boy, 15, at a shopping centre, offering him money in exchange for sexual favours, has been released back into the community. The scared boy, who had been watched and followed by Scott Darrin Falkingham for 40 minutes, desperately sent a text message to friends, calling for help. Falkingham was under a 10-year supervision order with conditions under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act at the time, after his release from jail in 2015. On Friday, Falkingham, 50, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted indecent treatment of a child under 16 and was sentenced to two years jail, immediately suspended, but operational for four years.
Premium Content An Uber driver who lured a teenager passenger into his car before raping her and A Brisbane District Court jury found Sakaria Taufao, 50, deliberately turned off his ride-share app before raping the 18-year-old in the back seat of his BMW sedan off a dirt road in Ipswich in 2015. It can now be revealed that Taufao had been accused of raping another young passenger in The Gap in 2017, but he was acquitted of all three rape charges after a trial in December. After the guilty verdict was handed down late on Friday afternoon, Judge Michael Burnett sentenced Taufao to seven years jail with no parole date for the cold and calculated attack.