Actress Maggie Kirkpatrick found guilty of historic sex offences

ALEX HEINKE reports.

A Melbourne magistrate has sided with the victim and found Australian actress Maggie Kirkpatrick guilty of indecently assaulting a teenage psychiatric patient in 1984.

The 78-year-old Kirkpatrick will now be assessed for a Community Corrections Order instead of a prison term over two counts of indecent assault and one count of committing an act of gross indecency with a person under 16.

She was known as “The Freak” in the hit television show ‘Prisoner’ and has now been found guilty of child sex offences committed 31 years ago.