Disturbing textual content messages allegedly despatched by a probationary police officer to an ‘impressionable’ 15-year-old woman he allegedly impregnated, have been revealed.
{The teenager}, who can’t be named for authorized causes, was allegedly messaged by probationary constable Matthew Townsend, 28, on social media in August this 12 months.
He was despatched to her faculty simply days earlier to take her assertion over unlinked sexual assault claims and allegedly organized to ‘hook up’ with the woman on two events in August and September in change for vapes and alcohol.
Police will allege Townsend later transferred $800 to the woman to get an abortion after she fell pregnant however she couldn’t undergo with the process and ultimately reported the matter the police.
A collection of messages the probationary cop allegedly despatched the teenager have been revealed
Pictured: 28-year-old Matthew Townsend
Townsend, from Gregory Hills in Sydney’s south-west, was arrested and charged with two counts of getting sexual activity with a toddler aged 14-16 years and one depend of misconduct in public workplace.
He appeared in Campbelltown Native Courtroom in October the place he was refused bail and within the Supreme Courtroom earlier this month, when he was once more refused bail and remanded in custody.
Police will allege texts obtained by detectives and seen by The Day by day Telegraph present he messaged the woman asking if she knew who he was.
‘Nah probably not…. are you aware me from someplace?’ she replied.
‘Yeh however I do not know if I ought to inform you who I’m… are you able to promise to not inform anybody ever.’
‘Yh’ she replied, indicating sure.
‘I am the police officer who was at your faculty.’
Different messages present him allegedly asking her to ‘put on one thing attractive’ after they meet up.
‘We obtained a problem,’ she later wrote alongside an image of a optimistic being pregnant take a look at.
Townsend allegedly replied: ‘What the precise f***’.
‘Absolutely you possibly can’t have the newborn, you are out of house, no job and nonetheless younger… Questions will probably be requested about who the daddy is.’
The disturbing messages exhibiting Townsend allegedly making an attempt to persuade her to have an abortion and her saying she will’t undergo with it
She later heartbreakingly asks him if he is aware of how a lot abortions price however later tells him ‘I am sorry however I severely cannot (have an abortion)’.
‘Nobody can know I am the daddy,’ he allegedly replied.
Courtroom paperwork don’t reveal if the woman went by with the process.
Townsend will subsequent seem in courtroom in early 2023.
