Macquarie University 'failed' to call police after sex assault, 2GB's Ray Hadley revealed
GEMMA JONES The Daily Telegraph February 26, 2013 4:38PM
A YOUNG Sri Lankan man arrested over the sexual assault of a female student at Macquarie University in Sydney's northwest is an asylum seeker, immigration officials have confirmed.
However, the accused man was not living in student accommodation at Macquarie University at the time of the attack, an immigration department spokeswoman said this afternoon.
Police say the 20-year-old student was asleep in a student accommodation building at the uni when a man broke into her room and indecently assaulted her about 3.20am last Thursday.
The woman woke up during the attack and the man fled.
Police say they arrested a 21-year-old Sri Lankan national at Railway Square in Sydney's CBD on Tuesday morning and took him to Surry Hills police station for questioning.
Macquarie University provides services for asylum seekers, including temporary accommodation, under a 2012 agreement with the Red Cross Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme (ASAS).
A BOAT carrying 68 people was intercepted off the north-west coast on the weekend. The vessel was discovered near the Ashmore Islands.
It was claimed earlier today, the university failed to call police immediately after security was told of the indecent assault.
The victim waited almost eight hours for help, 2GB's Ray Hadley revealed this morning.
He said a security guard came to the girl's unit about 10 minutes after the indecent assault and that he may have touched parts of the crime scene.
The victim and her flatmates assumed police had been called after the 3.20am attack but uniformed officers and detectives only came after the young women called them around 11am.
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