Australia: Ex-Students Of Melbourne School Receive Used Condoms, Probe Launched

All of the victims who came forward attended the city's Kilbreda College private girls' school in 1999, according to BBC.

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New Delhi: In a bizarre incident, at least 65 women in Australia are alleged to have received used condoms in the post, according to BBC. The packages also contained handwritten letters detailing graphic messages, which were sent to addresses across south-eastern and eastern Melbourne. 

According to the police, the victims are linked and it is part of a targeted attack. All of the victims who came forward attended the city's Kilbreda College private girls' school in 1999, according to BBC.

The first letter was received on March 20 and the most recent was received on Monday, the Guadian stated.

Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Grant Lewis said that investigators were carrying out DNA and handwriting analysis to track down the person behind it, according to BBC.

He further stated that the women's addresses were obtained from a yearbook created by the students 24 years ago. 

Regarding the letters, he said that some were handwritten, some typed, but all contained "suggestive and threatening... sexualised" messages.

"Our message to the offender would be 'you need to stop this' and 'we will find you'," BBC quoted him as saying

"We don't know what the connection to the school is. It might be an ex-student, an employee... it could be someone who found this yearbook in the rubbish and they're playing a game," he said.

According to the report, many of the letters were opened by the victims' parents, who were traumatised and distressed by the ordeal.

One victim, Bree, told reporters, "Her reaction was quite shocked and upset. She was really grossed out and her and dad were worried thinking someone was targeting me".

Bree said that when similar complaints started coming, she formed a Facebook Messenger group among fellow Kilbreda College alumna.

She said, "It seemed to be every day or two days more and more girls would say 'I've got one'." "It's beyond a joke now. We just want it to stop. One of the girls has received four letters and she's just over it."

She added, "We've got no idea who it could be. No one can seem to find a connection. We can't think of anybody who has a grudge against us."

According to the police, the college is assisting with the investigation, reported BBC.

Principal Nicole Mangelsdorf told Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper that the school had written to former pupils encouraging any other victims to come forward to the police, According to BBC.

"We have no reason to believe this matter is related to any recent data breach at the college", she said.