“HOW I STOPPED A CHILD MOLESTER”

Tracie-Marie Seipel in Sydney

It was a simple phone call that led to the undoing of Sydney paedophile dance teacher Grant Davies.

On Sept. 21, father-of-one Davies, 41, pleaded guilty to 28 child sex offences against nine victims, who were all aged between 9 and 14. The victims include one female student whom he raped seven times, and a boy.

Dance instructor Tracie-Marie Seipel, who once worked for Davies at his RG Dance Studio in Sydney’s inner west, overheard in 2007 a 17-year-old student calling Davies a paedophile during a phone conversation.

Alarmed, Seipel approached the girl who gave her the names of two 14-year-old victims.

“They said [Davies] was sending messages asking, ‘What colour undies are you wearing?’” Seipel tells WHO. “Asking them if they masturbate and if he could teach them how to masturbate.”

Grant Davies at Burwood Local Court in 2013

Seipel immediately contacted the police, who launched an investigation (the case stalled when the girls felt they couldn’t go through the stress of testifying). Davies was eventually arrested in 2013, when his wife found evidence on his computer that he was grooming children.

“God knows what those girls would be like if I hadn’t overheard [the conversation],” says Seipel. “Their families call me their angel.”

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