Vic: Convicted sex offender escapee found

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2007
Vic: Convicted sex offender escapee found

MELBOURNE, Dec 20 AAP - A convicted sex offender who escaped from a secure psychiatric
hospital in Melbourne has been found in Adelaide.

Sean Broaders, 44, has been on the run since Friday after absconding from Thomas Embling
Hospital in Heidelberg in Melbourne's north-east.

Broaders, who had shaved off his beard, was arrested by police in Gouger Street in
central Adelaide just before 9.30am.

He is now in hospital undergoing a medical assessment.

A Victoria Police spokeswoman said Broaders would not face any charges and would be
returned to the care of the Thomas Embling Hospital, a secure hospital primarily for patients
from the criminal justice system needing psychiatric assessment or treatment.

Broaders is a known sex offender and has extensive convictions for sex offences.

He escaped from care after being escorted by two staff members to a medical appointment.

Upon returning to the hospital, he ran away from the transporting car.

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KEYWORD: BROADERS LEAD

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