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She later threatened the victim – who had suffered a bruised, swollen eye – with text messages such as “You’re f ... ed”, “You wait till I see you next” and “We’re on our way”. She was also charged with two other accused for the theft of the $75,000 distinctive Ford GT Mustang – stolen from a locked home garage while the owner was on holiday between 2-5 May. Vivianti was identified as the front passenger when the Mustang pulled into a Dandenong North service station a few days later. The driver and Vivianti fled in the car as police approached. The car was soon recovered in Bruce Street, Dandenong. With her offending, the accused had breached a 12-month community corrections order. Vivianti’s lawyer said her life had changed significantly since then, giving up drug-taking and giving birth to a second child in January. He said the single mum was “disgusted and felt sick” about her offending. “She now appreciates a (community) order and will do something with it. “She realises she’s at the doors of jail.” Magistrate Lou Hill said the theft and “very worrying” violence were “high-grade criminal activity”. Notwithstanding Vivianti “blew” her previous corrections order, she was ordered to do 100 hours of voluntary work as part of a 12-month community-based order.
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A SINGLE mum has been placed on a community-based order for violently beating two women as well as being involved in the theft of a rare Mustang convertible from Narre Warren North last year. Kassandra Vivianti, 21, of Narre Warren South, pleaded guilty though argued in Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Monday that she was at the time in the grip of a “short and severe” ice addiction. Police prosecutor First Constable Tess Davison told the court Vivianti had crossed a street in Doveton to attack a woman out on an afternoon walk with her dog last April. Egged on by her then-boyfriend, Vivianti took a swig from a can of drink and spat it into the woman’s face. She then repeatedly punched the woman’s face and body. Vivianti pulled the victim’s head down by her hair and kneed her in the face, and continued with the assault until the victim grabbed Vivianti’s glasses. First Const Davison said the victim was hospitalised with a cut, bleeding nose. Vivianti had claimed to police she was protecting her boyfriend but conceded she may have punched her “one too many times”. In another incident, on 1 July, Vivianti, accompanied by an unknown male, punched a woman’s face, pulled her hair and tried to yank her out of a vehicle. Vivianti later denied striking the victim’s face with a wooden bat, telling police she didn’t recall the incident.
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