A mother who spent just a year behind bars for plying her teenage daughter with alcohol and leaving her in a hotel room to be raped by an obese middle-aged man still refuses to reveal the rapist’s name, nearly 20 years later. .
Therese Butler was filmed telling a journalist to fuck off when she was confronted by A current issue on Monday’s episode.
Her daughter Peta, now in her 30s, told the program in 2018 about the night she was raped by a stranger in 2005 or 2006.
Butler had lured her to a Toowoomba hotel under the guise of a “girls’ weekend”.
While the vile pedophile, known only as Thommo, raped the teenager, her mother sat outside the room smoking cigarettes.
Therese Butler (pictured with her partner, Jason Cantoni) told a journalist to “fuck off” when he asked her about the rape of her daughter.
Peta (pictured) was lured to a hotel room by her mother, plied with alcohol and left raped by an obese stranger known as Thommo when she was a teenager.
“It only lasted a couple of minutes, but while he raped me my head was turned to the side and my eyes were closed while I was crying, I couldn’t speak,” Peta told ACA six years ago.
‘It was like my voice box: I couldn’t speak. She couldn’t yell at my mom, she couldn’t do anything.
Queensland’s parole laws had prevented journalists from speaking to Butler since she was released in late 2018, but the ACA was finally able to confront her outside a pharmacy last week.
When asked about “what kind of mother” lets her daughter be raped, Butler said, “Shut your mouth… You don’t know the facts and it was all lies.”
Nearly two decades after the sexual assault, Thommo continues to evade the police.
Peta claims police suspect her mother has withheld critical information that could lead to her arrest.
Still, despite spending a year in prison for the crime, Butler claims her daughter “was never touched.”
Thommo (in a computer-generated image released by police) has not been arrested since he raped Peta as a teenager in 2005 or 2006.
Butler (pictured with her partner, Jason Cantoni, in 2019) told reporters that her daughter was “never touched,” despite spending a year behind bars for her role in Peta’s rape.
“I don’t know where that cowardly mongrel is, but he never touched my daughter,” she said.
‘I never left my daughter’s side… You’re going through shit that my idiot daughter goes out with, she’s the liar.
“I would die for my children, I always have. Back off!’
Peta spent almost a decade finding the courage to report her assault.
When he finally did, he was able to trick his mother into confessing during an emotional 27-minute phone call that was secretly recorded by police in early 2016.
She had called her mother telling her she needed “closure” but was horrified when she nonchalantly admitted that Peta had been raped.
“It was still rape, but you were 16. I wouldn’t let him touch you under 16, no way,” Butler said in the recording.
The mother recalled buying her underage daughter Vodka Cruisers and bourbon before leaving her alone in a hotel room with her online lover Thommo, whom she had only met in person twice.
Despite the blunt confession, Butler told Peta how he fantasized about cutting Thommo “from ear to ear” with a knife.
Peta (pictured) is now a doting mother to her two daughters and describes herself as “resilient”.
“If I could go back in time, Peta, I would do it in a heartbeat,” he said during the call.
“Instead of bowing down to him, I’d grab him by the damn balls, cut them off, and shove them down his throat.”
However, Peta is resigned to the fact that she never received an apology from her mother.
“I will never receive that and I don’t expect to receive it,” he said.
Peta is now a doting mother to her two daughters and describes herself as “resilient”.
However, the fact that Thommo was never caught still weighs on him.
‘He deserves to be found. “He deserves to be brought to justice,” he said.
Thommo was described as extremely obese, with “protruding” blue eyes and driving a car with cream leather seats.
He appeared to be about 40 years old at the time of the attack.
Butler had spoken to Thommo, who she believed was called Peter, online for two years and was strangled by him during sex before the rape of her daughter.
Peta (pictured with her mother as a teenager) said she never received an apology from her mother for the sexual assault.
Police continue to urge anyone with information about Thommo’s identity to come forward.
If you have any information that could assist police, please contact Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.
If you or someone you know needs confidential support, please call 1800RESPECT.