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Convicted child killer Rick Thorburn jailed over sex offences at family day care centre
Convicted child killer Rick Thorburn has been sentenced to five years in jail over more than a dozen child sex offences, including the rape of a young girl at a family day care centre south of Brisbane five years ago.
Key points:
- The child sex offences began in 2015 — the same year Rick Thorburn murdered his 12-year-old foster daughter Tiahleigh Palmer
- Thorburn said he had not intended to plead guilty to the sexual offences but his lawyers had ‘pushed’ him into it
- Thorburn is serving a life sentence for the murder of Tiahliegh
Last November, Thorburn pleaded guilty to one count of rape, two counts of attempted rape, and 10 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12.
The offences occurred at 60-year-old Thorburn’s home at Chambers…
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