'I hate you': Alleged victim confronts child abuser outside court
An Adelaide child carer who sexually abused a young girl has been attacked in a fiery confrontation outside court.
A woman and a teenage girl shoved and shouted at Brenton Kelly Dickson as he left the South Australian District Court on Wednesday, following him down the street and up an escalator to continue berating him in a car park.
Dickson, a former director of an out-of-hours care centre in Adelaide's north, was found guilty of the persistent exploitation of a child under his care.
But the 36-year-old was acquitted on multiple other charges allegedly involving up to 10 children between 2007 and 2013.
The teen who confronted Dickson was one of the alleged victims of the offences for which he was found not guilty.
"Look at me, I'm not myself any more," she screamed as she shoved the heavy-set, bearded man in the back.
"I hate you! F*** you."
Dickson was acquitted on multiple charges allegedly involving up to ten children. Photo: 7 News.
In the car park the other woman grabbed Dickson by the hair and hit him until a journalist told her she should stop or she could be charged.
"I don't care," she yelled. "It's worth it."
Earlier, the victim in the charge for which Dickson was found guilty, told the court she used to be a "bubbly" girl who thought the world was mostly good.
"But since this incident my real smile has faded," she said in her victim impact statement read by prosecutor Mark Norman.
"I feel disgusted that people in this world could do this.
Dickson was grabbed by the hair and hit by one of the alleged victims for which he was found not guilty. Photo: 7 News.
"I am so hurt that someone that I should've been able to trust did this to me."
At his trial Dickson denied the allegations against him and said all he had done was hug children when they were hurt or upset.
He was suspended in 2013 after he was seen washing an 11-year-old girl's legs.
He will be sentenced on Thursday.
