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In yet more cases of ‘why are they still even here?’, an Indian immigrant continued working with children even after being convicted of child sex offences and a Sudanese refugee gang rapist is ‘awaiting deportation’, after escaping detention.
A Melbourne maths tutor who was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager continued to run his business without telling the police or the “utterly horrified” parents of dozens of children he taught.
Damodar Kodavaluru, 58, of Clyde, faced Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to contravening a community corrections order and 76 counts of failing to comply with his reporting obligations.
The court heard Kodavaluru sexually assaulted a 17-year-old student in 2019 and was registered as a sex offender.
He was afterwards required to give police any online usernames, his address, and phone number, as well as inform them of any interactions with children and provide [information] about his vehicles and employment.
Instead, in a totally-not-predatory move, he lied to police and kept working with children – and lying to their parents, too.
But for about two-and-a-half years between 2022 and 2025, and despite his Working With Children Check being revoked, Kodavaluru tutored 64 kids either in person, online, or both.
Kodavaluru’s Dandenong business Smart Tutoring Centre was openly advertised and the tutoring was sometimes done in group sessions and sometimes one-on-one.
One student was as young as seven, while others were in VCE.
While he was not accused of any more sexual offences against children, parents concerned are understandably horrified that a child molester was tutoring their kids.
“It’s not outlandish to suggest that they may be blaming themselves for allowing their children to come into contact with a registered sex offender, knowing that the children are vulnerable,” [prosecutors] said.
Magistrate Tim Schocker said it was “quite astonishing” that Kodavaluru kept tutoring kids after his prior conviction and went “as far as actively hiding this from authorities”.
A mother whose child was tutored by Kodavaluru for years told media learning about the charges was “one of the worst days of my life”.
“I assumed the necessary checks had been done,” she said, adding that Kodavaluru concocted an elaborate excuse for not having a Working with Children Check, telling her it was because he had been charged for road rage.
Kodavaluru was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with a nine-month non-parole period and 116 days already served.
He was also fined a total of $2500.
And deportation proceedings…?
In a rare miracle of courts actually putting the interests of Australians above the ‘human rights’ of predatory, third-world troglodytes, an African gang rapist is set to be deported.
If the useless immigration detention can actually keep him in, that is.
A gang rapist who spent five days on the run after fleeing detention will stay in prison after being caught.
Michael Angok did not apply for bail in Blacktown Local Court on Monday after he was caught in western Sydney while on the run from immigration detention.
He was being transported from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for medical treatment, before he escaped from Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital on Wednesday morning.
Proving the statistics about average sub-Saharan IQs, police tracked his hideout when he left his shoes outside. Guess his accomplice didn’t want him scuffing the carpet.
He was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a gang rape at a park in the western Sydney suburb of Doonside in 2014.
The 30-year-old had served his sentence for the offence and was being held in custody as an immigration detainee awaiting deportation.
Opposition home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam said Angok’s case highlighted security at immigration facilities had severely degraded under the government’s watch.
“Escapes have more than doubled under Labor in only two years,” he said in a statement.
No doubt the tilty-head judges on the High Court are already wringing their hands over his ‘rights’.
Immigrants convicted of crimes in Australia detained indefinitely has been a growing legal problem in the past three years, after the High Court found the practice was unlawful.
Well, there’s an easy fix: don’t keep them in immigration detention indefinitely – ship them out on the next available flight, no appeals.
