{"id":64171,"date":"2026-08-03T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/64171\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:10:15","slug":"enio-screpanti-guilty-of-rape-and-indecent-assault-of-adelaide-womens-prison-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/64171\/","title":{"rendered":"Enio Screpanti guilty of rape and indecent assault of Adelaide Women\u2019s Prison inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prison maintenance officer has been found guilty of indecently assaulting and raping a female inmate \u201crepeatedly and forcefully so it hurt\u201d \u2013 and been immediately remanded in custody.<\/p>\n

On Monday, and after less than 2 \u00bd hours of deliberation, a District Court jury of six men and six women unanimously found Enio Screpanti guilty of two sexual offences at the Adelaide Women\u2019s Prison at Northfield.<\/p>\n

Jurors told Judge Anne Barnett they had also found, unanimously, that Screpanti abused his position of power or authority over the woman to commit his offending, aggravating his culpability. <\/p>\n

Screpanti shook his head as the verdicts were announced while his wife, daughters \u2013 who work for the RAAF, Department of Child Protection and as a nurse \u2013 and his son-in-law, a former SA Police detective, comforted one another.<\/p>\n

They cried, and audibly gasped, when Judge Barnett refused to allow Screpanti to remain in the community and revoked his bail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the circumstances of the offence for which he\u2019s now been convicted by the jury, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s appropriate he remain on bail \u2026 bail will be revoked,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Screpanti, 67, of Hillbank, pleaded not guilty<\/a> to one aggravated count of indecent assault and one count of rape.<\/p>\n

At trial, prosecutor Christine Hanna alleged the offences occurred inside the prison in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n

She alleged the indecent assault occurred first, with Screpanti indecently touching the inmate over her clothes after directing her to walk on a treadmill in the prison gym.<\/p>\n

Ms Hanna alleged the rape occurred subsequently, after Screpanti directed the inmate into a maintenance shed on the prison grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said \u2018pull your pants down\u2019 to which she initially said no \u2026 he seemed angry with her, which made her afraid, and she did it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had her bend over (and sexually assaulted her) repeatedly and forcefully so it hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n

She further alleged the \u201cbackground and context\u201d of those incidents could be judged based on the evidence of two other inmates, Nicole McGuinness and a fraudster who cannot be named.<\/p>\n

However Gilbert Aitken, for Screpanti, suggested those women\u2019s evidence was unreliable.<\/p>\n

He cross-examined McGuinness over her conviction for murdering<\/a> a transgender woman, cutting up and burning her body, and seeking to hide her crime from authorities.<\/p>\n

He further suggested the fraudster\u2019s account was not \u201csafe to accept\u201d<\/a> given her \u201cadult convictions for deliberate dishonesty\u201d and \u201clies told to obtain money\u201d.<\/p>\n

By its verdict on Monday, jurors rejected Mr Aitken\u2019s submissions, unanimously finding Ms Hanna had proven the allegations beyond reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

Mr Aitken asked sentencing submissions be adjourned for six weeks in order to obtain a psychological report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis man has one prior (offence) 14 years ago, he\u2019s been an exceptional person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Judge Barnett remanded Screpanti in custody to face sentencing submissions in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prison maintenance officer has been found guilty of indecently assaulting and raping a female inmate \u201crepeatedly and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50333,55283,67323,77878,40399,46283,77892,57099,67271,67296,77863,77889,67285,57562,67277,77882,77886,77855,77866,395,77867,77890,21,77868,1113,59585,19069,16161,6937,3743,42199,77857,29487,77865,67194,67281,77870,77884,43934,77858,77856,77869,67292,68271,77873,39928,64094,77897,39722,77880,37355,33469,77879,67326,77885,55319,8963,60869,37045,8937,77896,67322,67282,77860,42147,67321,77881,53910,77877,77883,67327,77875,77876,77874,77895,67196,77854,32197,77893,44050,77862,67299,67301,67278,38764,38099,37538,38273,77872,77861,77859,40513,50085,67309,67306,67294,77888,77864,67305,66913,37141,66679,77891,77871,8962,77894,77887,67325],"class_list":["post-64171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-s-account","tag-s-evidence","tag-s-prison","tag-s-submissions","tag-14-years","tag-46283","tag-2020-and-2021-aa-subscriber-exclusives","tag-57099","tag-a-district-court-jury","tag-a-female-inmate","tag-a-former-sa-police-detective","tag-a-fraudster","tag-a-maintenance","tag-a-nurse","tag-a-prison-maintenance-officer","tag-a-psychological-report","tag-a-transgender-woman","tag-a-treadmill","tag-aa-app-download-boxscrepanti","tag-adelaide","tag-aitken","tag-an-exceptional-person","tag-austrlia","tag-authorities-he","tag-bail","tag-barnett","tag-bomb","tag-case","tag-child-protection","tag-custody","tag-daughters","tag-deliberate-dishonesty","tag-department","tag-district-court-jury","tag-enio-screpanti","tag-gilbert-aitken","tag-her-adult-convictions","tag-her-bend","tag-her-body","tag-her-clothes","tag-her-conviction","tag-her-crime","tag-hillbank","tag-his-bail","tag-his-culpability","tag-his-fate","tag-his-head","tag-his-offending","tag-his-position","tag-his-son-in-law","tag-his-wife","tag-indecent-assault","tag-its-verdict","tag-judge-anne-barnett","tag-judge-barnett","tag-jurors","tag-jury","tag-mcguinness","tag-monday","tag-money","tag-mr-aitken","tag-ms-hanna","tag-nicole-mcguinness","tag-northfield-jurors","tag-offence","tag-one-aggravated-count","tag-one-another-they","tag-one-count","tag-power-or-authority","tag-prison-rape","tag-prosecutor-christine-hanna","tag-rape-and-indecent-assault","tag-rape-at","tag-reasonable-doubt-mr","tag-sa-prison-maintenance-officer-enio-screpanti","tag-screpanti","tag-sentencing-submissions","tag-september","tag-six-men","tag-six-weeks","tag-six-women","tag-storiesshe","tag-the-background-and-context","tag-the-adelaide-women","tag-the-allegations","tag-the-circumstances","tag-the-community","tag-the-evidence","tag-the-fraudster","tag-the-indecent-assault","tag-the-inmate","tag-the-jury","tag-the-offence","tag-the-offences","tag-the-prison","tag-the-prison-grounds","tag-the-prison-gym-ms-hanna","tag-the-raaf","tag-the-rape","tag-the-verdicts","tag-the-woman","tag-this-man","tag-those-incidents","tag-those-women","tag-trial","tag-two-other-inmates","tag-two-sexual-offences","tag-your-pants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}