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22 Sep 2008, 4:12 am

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 21,00.html

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A SYDNEY court has heard how a bogus spiritual leader charged with a string of sexual assaults allegedly faked a heart attack in an attempt to avoid facing court last week on 150 sex offences.

Tony Golossian, 61, is the accused mastermind of a string of sexual assaults allegedly committed from 2001 to 2005.

Golossian, of Dulwich Hill, is accused of luring a then 23-year-old bank employee to a Summer Hill motel in early 2001 with claims he could cure a "black magic" curse placed on the woman's family.

Police statements tendered in Parramatta Local Court yesterday claim Golossian told the woman - who cannot be named - her 15-year-old sister would develop breast cancer and that her "fallopian tubes would no longer function" if the woman refused to participate in the rituals.

Police allege Golossian drugged, blindfolded and sexually assaulted the woman at four motels in Sydney and one on the Central Coast over a four-year-period.

The woman told police she paid Golossian and his co-accused between $70,000 and $100,000 for the "prayer sessions".

Magistrate Graham Johnson refused bail, and described the case, if proved, as "one of the most bizarre and evil cases I have come across in over 40 years".

Police from Strike Force Wanda arrested Golossian on Friday.

He was expected to face Burwood Local Court later that day but was taken to hospital complaining of chest pains. His alleged accomplice, Arthur Psichogios, 38, of Enfield, was charged with 79 sexual offences and was refused bail on Friday.

Golossian was released from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital about 6pm on Saturday and appeared in Parramatta Local Court yesterday via video link charged with 150 sex offences and one count of assault.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Jason France tendered a medical report that he said cast doubt on Golossian's claim he was suffering from chest pains on Friday.

"His examination was unremarkable and his ECG (a medical procedure to detect heart damage) was unchanged," Sgt France told the court.

"He was trying to pervert the course of justice by imitating a heart attack."

Golossian's barrister said his client suffered from multiple health problems including heart complications and kidney disease.

Golossian was supported by his wife and sons, who refused to comment outside the court. He is due to face Burwood Local Court on October 29.


what an evil idiot.



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22 Sep 2008, 4:19 am

Coprocephalite. Goes to show that Australia has its fair share of horny charlatans. Pity it wasn't a real, and fatal, one.


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22 Sep 2008, 4:31 am

Quatermass wrote:
Coprocephalite. Goes to show that Australia has its fair share of horny charlatans. Pity it wasn't a real, and fatal, one.


Still far, far removed from the U.S., and perhaps Canada and Europe, in that measure.
Unfortunately, we don't have the death penalty for the ones we do!


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22 Sep 2008, 4:38 am

I've noticed that. Australia seems to be pretty much on the low end when it comes to sex crimes. Sounds like a wonderful place to live.



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22 Sep 2008, 4:54 am

ShadesOfMe wrote:
I've noticed that. Australia seems to be pretty much on the low end when it comes to sex crimes. Sounds like a wonderful place to live.


Tourists who see reports of such on Australian TV sometimes believe it's prevalent; the truth of it is it occurs far less frequently than in many other nations, so fewer instances are ignored and even "minor" incidents are reported.


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22 Sep 2008, 5:11 am

This bastid got women to pay him to rape them? Dude must be a helluva smooth talker...



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22 Sep 2008, 5:32 am

ShadesOfMe wrote:
I've noticed that. Australia seems to be pretty much on the low end when it comes to sex crimes. Sounds like a wonderful place to live.


Believe me, it's a pretty decent place. Just don't ask Chopper Read why Victoria is the 'Garden State'...

As for the Gold Coast, well, we have finally received our mandatory CSI ripoff...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strip_(TV_series)


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22 Sep 2008, 6:47 am

Quatermass wrote:
Coprocephalite. Goes to show that Australia has its fair share of horny charlatans. Pity it wasn't a real, and fatal, one.


Don't you worry. This man will pay for his sins in hell, barring of course a deathbed repentance.



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22 Sep 2008, 6:48 am

jrknothead wrote:
This bastid got women to pay him to rape them? Dude must be a helluva smooth talker...


Yes, like Satan himself. 8O



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22 Sep 2008, 7:30 am

slowmutant wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
Coprocephalite. Goes to show that Australia has its fair share of horny charlatans. Pity it wasn't a real, and fatal, one.


Don't you worry. This man will pay for his sins in hell, barring of course a deathbed repentance.


Okay, please tell me you're kidding, right? You cannot really be serious about that "say sorry and you still get to go to heaven" stuff... Right?


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22 Sep 2008, 10:39 am

Ishmael wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
Coprocephalite. Goes to show that Australia has its fair share of horny charlatans. Pity it wasn't a real, and fatal, one.


Don't you worry. This man will pay for his sins in hell, barring of course a deathbed repentance.


Okay, please tell me you're kidding, right? You cannot really be serious about that "say sorry and you still get to go to heaven" stuff... Right?


As unlikely as it sounds, yes. As unfair and abominable as we may think, yes.

If one is totally sincere and if God forgives, then all sin is washed away. It doesn't seem right from the human point of view, but the prerogative to forgive sin belongs to God alone. If my sins can be forgiven, if yours can be forgiven, even at the hour of death ... this was the meaning behind the crucifixion, you see. This is the meaning behind the whole earthly life of Jesus Christ.

NOTE: Deathbed repetences like this are extremely rare.



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22 Sep 2008, 11:04 am

slowmutant, I can honestly say that in the wholly impossible - but for the sake of argument - event in which I meet this god, he and I will have a long, volatile talk - in which either I correct his moral duplicity and egomanical depravity, or issues escalate until I destroy this god. Of all the religions I've observed; the judeo-Christian god concept is amongst the most fundamentally evil. If I were to demolish every city on earth with atomic weapons, but truly regret it, I would get to spend eternity in bliss - for a lifetimes evil and a mere moments reflection and regret? That is why the religious scare me - what they believe to be good and moral is more often than not the opposite.
I do not trust such people.

"If ever you do shake the hand of a religious man; keep in mind you greet neither man, nor will, nor spirit, but ideals and intent both rigid and unpredictable."


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22 Sep 2008, 11:14 am

John 3:16

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Ishmael, how likely do you think a deathbed repetence actually is? From the lips of a lifelong sinner, no less? Remember, it's not enough just to say you're sorry. Your faith in God must be absolute for your confession to carry any weight with Almighty God.

And God, being God, will know if you are faking it. :wink:



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22 Sep 2008, 11:34 am

Slowmutant, I wasn't talking about "faking it", but the fallible argument that a moments genuine regret outways a lifetime of destruction. Although, this is the same god who apparently killed all of the worlds population, save two of each - just for laughs - killed the firstborn child of egyptians, regardless of their own innocence, f***ed with Job, and told his people to rape the little girls of Babylon, which was okay, after all, because according to the bible they were sub-human and deserved it.
Does your god even have the right to decide good and evil, right and wrong? His own... colourful... history would deny such, unless one is willing to account for heavy bias either way...

I'm thinking I'll start a new thread on this...


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22 Sep 2008, 11:36 am

If God doesn't have the right to make good and evil, who does? You?

Please.



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22 Sep 2008, 11:56 am

slowmutant wrote:
If God doesn't have the right to make good and evil, who does? You?

Please.


Yes, actually, I do - since I come from a species whose social culture has bred innate moral senses, that and a more contemporary background of repeated interactions in populated environments consisting of many subsets of that inherant moral sense, I do, in fact, have that right. A supernatural being decidedly removed from localized cultures has that same right...? I think not.


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