Grandmother Jesse Lauder sexually assaulted twice in home over two years

Australian Community Media

Victoria Police renewed appeal for public information over 40 years after an 82-year-old woman was sexually assaulted twice in her own Newport home in 1981 and 1983.

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00:00After the first attack, she came and lived with my parents and I.

00:05We lived just around the corner, so to speak, 400 metres maybe away.

00:10But she only lived there for a very short time because she's going to go back.

00:14She's going to go back and live in her house. It's her house.

00:18And this person is not going to have her change her life.

00:23So she went back because she'll be safe there, won't she?

00:27She'll be safe in her own home.

00:29She'll be able to live her life. She'll be able to be independent.

00:33She won't have to be a burden on anybody.

00:36She didn't want to be a burden on my mum and dad.

00:39She wanted to live her own life and not take anything from anybody.

00:46And then after the second attack, had anything changed?

00:50Did she go back to the home after that attack?

00:53She was going to go back to the home.

00:55And my mum said that you might be able to go back there,

01:06but I can never live with myself to let you go back there.

01:12So she came and she lived with us.

01:15And she would have gone back.

01:23For more information visit www.fema.gov

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