Prisoner star Maggie Kirkpatrick cleared of sex charges

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Updated 7 December 2015 at 6:27 pm

Prisoner star Maggie Kirkpatrick has been cleared of indecently assaulting a young fan in the 1980s.

She was appealing against her conviction for indecently assaulting the fan in 1984.

The NSW actor, 74, told the Victorian County Court today that she did not touch the 14-year-old girl, who she invited to her then Melbourne home for dinner to give a disturbed person "a little home life".

IN THE CLEAR: Maggie Kirkpatrick. Photo: Supplied

She said she had the girl over for dinner as "a kindness", but that she put the girl in a taxi and sent her back to the psychiatric hospital where she was a patient after finding her stealing alcohol.

A Melbourne Magistrates Court heard previously that Kirkpatrick had taken the girl upstairs to a bedroom and indecently assaulted her.

In August, she was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault and one count of committing a gross act on a person under 16.

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