Teen who befriended girl on Facebook 'raped her after threatening to share nude photos'

[WA Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, 12th March, 2019 AM News Update [Rhian Ryan, 19]( [Teen who befriended girl on Facebook 'raped her after threatening to share nude photos']( Perth teen who initiated flirtation with 14-year-old girl stands accused of threatening to send her family nude photos of her if she didn't have sex with him. --------------------------------------------------------------- Top Stories ['Boys being boys': WA's Tokyo trade commissioner accused of arranging brothel visit for former Liberal MPs]( On Tuesday afternoon, the commission tabled a report on the WA Commissioner in Japan Craig Peacock, alleging corrupt behaviour for at least a decade. [Craig Peacock]( --------------------------------------------------------------- ['I don't know what came over me, I love my daughter': Perth dad accused of murdering baby gives evidence]( A Perth father accused of murdering his baby said he wasn't thinking clearly, and "wanted to be punished" when he left her dying to drive to a police station. [Arron Martin (right) is accused of murdering his six-month-old daughter Isabella in November 2017.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gunman 'on the run' after shooting in Perth's south-east]( Members of the public have been advised to stay away from Wingrove Road in Langford and surrounding areas. [Langford]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Car lockout mystery solved: authority blames Chemist Warehouse pagers]( The prescription pager system at a Joondalup chemist interfering with people's keyless entry car remotes has been turned off, resolving the isolated issue. [Confused motorists in the carpark on Friday .]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [BHP rail crews applied brakes to wrong train before $300m runaway disaster]( BHP rail crews had mistakenly applied brakes to the wrong just minutes before the brakes of the iron ore train on the adjacent track failed, sparking a $300 million derailment disaster, a preliminary report says. [BHP had to forcibly derail the train. ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- ['We're politicians, not gods': MacTiernan defends $2.6m cash injection for failed Albany wave power project]( The WA government has axed its financial contribution to Carnegie Clean Energy's Albany wave energy project, flagging concerns about the company's finances. [xx]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Australia grounds Boeing's 737 MAX in wake of fatal crashes]( In what is a major blow for the aerospace giant and an unusual split from American aviation regulators, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority said it was in the best interests of safety to ground the jets. [Fiji Airways uses the Boeing 737 MAX planes on services from Nadi to Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It's the end of uncertainty for Leyonhjelm and Latham]( Liberal Democrats' David Leyonhjelm asserted that it was a "100 per cent certainty" that after the coming state election crossbenchers would hold the balance of power in both houses of parliament in both NSW and Canberra. [Latham is ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [World will be watching as George Pell sentenced for child sexual abuse]( People across the world will watch on Wednesday as George Pell is sentenced following his conviction for attacks on two choirboys in the 1990s. [A sketch of Cardinal George Pell in the courtroom.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Footy in 2019: The long-term AFL forecast]( With the AFL season on our doorstep, our experts have ranked the 18 clubs and made the case for and against each team making the top eight. Most importantly, you can have your say. [AFL pre-season interactive.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- We've sent you this email because your email address {EMAIL} has been registered for WA Today membership. You can [unsubscribe]( from this email at any time. At WA Today, we'll never ask for your personal or credit card information via email. If you receive a suspicious email claiming to offer WA Today services in exchange for your details, please delete it. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conditions of use]( [Privacy policy]( Copyright © 2019 Fairfax Media Limited 1 Darling Island Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009 Australia