Wurti Pultana (aka Warriota), aged between six and eight years, was raped by one of Rogers’ shepherds, an older man named Thomas Simms. Although a true bill was found against Sims at the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings in November 1850, the Grand Jury found Simms not guilty in February 1851.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)