Harrowing moment terrified girl, 17, is found tied up in shipping container after being tortured and raped with wire by depraved ex-boyfriend
Nikitah Beadman was beaten and kidnapped by twisted Robert Galleghan after she broke up with him
Nikitah Beadman was beaten and kidnapped by twisted Robert Galleghan after she broke up with him
DISTURBING footage shows a 17-year-old girl tied up and gagged with her own underwear being rescued from a shipping container.
Nikitah Beadman was savagely beaten, kidnapped and sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend Robert Galleghan in south-east Queensland, Australia in 2012.
In an exclusive interview, the young victim has recounted her terrifying torture which included her twisted-ex raping her with wire in an attempt to make her infertile.
Speaking with , she said: “I knew what was going to happen.
“He always said he'd bury me out there. I actually thought I was dead.”
Galleghan, who was jailed for eight years for the heinous attack, assaulted Beadman when she broke up with him at a party before chasing their mutual friends away with a knife.
After bashing her skull on a coffee table, he dragged her to a shipping container at the back of the property where he tied her to a shopping trolley, gagged her and wired her mouth shut, before wrapping her head with a yoga mat so she could barely breath.
He then sexually assaulted her.
Beadman described the rape, saying: “Not in a sexual way. In a torture way, so I couldn't have kids.”
Galleghan also stomped on his former lover's stomach.
When officers Peter Venz and Danny Rahe attended the property, Galleghan told them he had been assaulted.
However as the cops searched the home they heard faint cries from the shipping container and busted it open to find Beadman inside.
Sgt Rahe spoke about the moment he found the distressed teenager.
He said: “When the doors opened we’ve seen the trolley, like a fridge loading trolley, and we could see a body strapped to it.
“That’s when we went inside and probably saw the most horrific thing we’ve seen. My heart actually sank
“It was evil and depraved what I saw.”
The officers filmed the rescue for evidence and feared Beadman would not survive.
Sgt Venz said: “She had a blue yoga mat strapped around her head with wire and she was wired all the way down the shopping trolley.
“The wire was so tight it was just cutting into her skin.”
The teenager had been dating Galleghan, who was 12 years older than her, for three months before the incident.
But as the warped thug became increasingly abusive, the teen repeatedly tried to break up with him leading to Galleghan threatening her and her family.
The brutal assault happened when the scared girl said she was going to live with her mother to be closer to work.
Galleghan was sentenced to eight years behind bars and will be released in 2021.
The maniacal lover, who had a previous conviction for attacking a man with a samurai sword, was on parole for assaulting a police officer at the time of the incident.
Brave Beadman told the news outlet that she is suffering from lifelong injuries.
She said: “I have got a twisted backbone and two rotated ribs, that in any sort of movement or any sort of exercise could pierce one of my lungs.
“I have got multiple sprains all through my back; I have got sciatic nerve damage; I have also got nerve damage in my right arm, that I still couldn’t use for a year-and-a-half after — which was from the wire.”
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