Wesley Shane Oliver: Man who allegedly lured six-year-old girl into men’s toilet pleads not guilty

A Geraldton man who allegedly lured a six-year-old girl away from a playground and into a public toilet has pleaded not guilty. Wesley Shane Oliver, 31, entered a plea of not guilty on Thursday in the Geraldton Magistrates Court to a charge of forcibly taking a child under the age of 16. The court was previously told how Mr Oliver had been drinking at Geraldton foreshore with some friends on October 7. At 4.50pm he allegedly started to follow a young girl who had walked away from her father into the playground. Mr Oliver then allegedly asked her to come with him into the men’s toilet. Mr Oliver allegedly then pushed the six-year-old girl into a stall before she managed to escape after 30 seconds and run back to her father. “Her father said a man has touched her, pulled her dress,” Mr Oliver’s lawyer had previously told the court. CCTV footage allegedly showed Mr Oliver at the foreshore at that time but there is no footage of the alleged offences. Mr Oliver will reappear in court on September 6.