Elia is the sort of painfully ordinary woman you wouldn’t give a second glance… until you spy the ankle monitor. We reveal her history of stalking so awful she’s been dubbed ‘Australia’s Baby Reindeer’

With her dark hair, large sunglasses, oversized tote bag and striped Country Road T-shirt, Elia Papillo looks like any other woman in her mid-twenties who is under time pressure and wants to run a few errands.

But what her ‘plain Jane’ new look hides – particularly her unflattering baggy linen trousers – is a history of alleged stalking so terrifying she’s been dubbed Australia’s real-life ‘Baby Reindeer’.

Because on Papillo’s left ankle is an electronic tag that will track her every move as she prepares to appear in court next year on allegations that she violated a criminal order by ruthlessly stalking multiple people, including a man with whom she had a brief romantic relationship had and his new partner.

The 25-year-old former student support worker indeed from Salisbury, a quiet suburb Adelaide‘s north, now looks like a completely different woman than the one when her transgression first began.

At the time, in mid-2021, she had long, neatly brushed blonde hair and worked as a teaching assistant at nearby Holy Family Catholic School, where her mother is a kindergarten teacher.

A photo of Papillo taken in March 2022 – while she was in the middle of a stalking campaign for which she would later plead guilty – shows her radiant in a baby blue summer dress with lace-up shoes on her feet – and crucially unattended. device in view.

The disturbing crimes she was originally accused of appeared to be inspired by Martha, the antagonist in the hit Netflix show that captivated global audiences earlier this year.

These include faking a pregnancy and miscarriage, creating dozens of fake social media profiles in the names of the victims’ friends and family, falsely accusing the victim of sexual misconduct and claiming she had cancer to to cheat him out of $1,000.

But what her new Plain Jane look hides is a history of alleged stalking so terrifying she has been dubbed Australia’s ‘Baby Reindeer’. Because on Papillo’s left ankle is an electronic tag (seen here) that will track her every move as she prepares to appear in court next year on allegations that she relentlessly stalked multiple people, including a man she briefly dated

Last year, the Elizabeth Magistrates Court, in Adelaide’s north, also heard Papillo bombarded her victim with unwanted parcels and gifts, sent explicit messages or threats to 100 of his friends and family, and listed him as her emergency contact at SA Health.

But perhaps most chilling of all, she allegedly set up a fake memorial page for a deceased family friend of the victim.

The page, which contained photos of the deceased, was a ruse so she could follow her victim’s life.

The court also heard that she set up fake professional social media pages to trick a photography company into providing photos of her ex-boyfriend and his new partner that were taken with their consent.

Papillo pleaded guilty last November to one charge of stalking, one charge of dishonestly dealing with documents and two charges of breaching her bail, police said. Adelaide Advertiser.

Prosecutors accepted these charges as representative of her overall conduct and the other charges were dropped.

She was given a suspended sentence with a $1,000 good behavior bond and was banned from directly or indirectly contacting any of her victims.

Her provisional teaching license was also revoked a few months earlier, according to the Teacher Registration Council of South Australia.

A photo of Papillo (right) taken in March 2022 – while she was in the middle of a stalking campaign for which she would later plead guilty – shows her radiant in a baby blue summer dress with lace-up boots on her feet – and crucially, there is no surveillance device in sight. The other woman shown is not involved in the stalking allegations

But she is now facing a second trial after allegedly breaching her bail conditions almost immediately by repeatedly contacting the victim and his close friends and relatives, in addition to allegedly stalking another man.

It is alleged that just two weeks after her conviction, she filed a formal complaint with her victim’s employer, falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct.

The complaint was investigated and dismissed, but remains on his permanent file.

Papillo was arrested for the fourth time in June this year.

At that stage, police allege she had a brief relationship with another man, who she then started stalking.

Papillo’s lawyers have reportedly said that the first three stalking charges she faces will be “strongly defended.”

While she awaits trial, her freedom is only guaranteed by strict bail conditions.

These include surrendering her passport, wearing the ankle monitoring device and mandatory house arrest, except in rare circumstances such as a medical appointment or a visit to her lawyer.

She is also prohibited from using any device with internet access and attempting to speak to her alleged victims or go within 100 meters of her.

Papillo’s provisional teaching license was also revoked a few months earlier, according to the Teachers Registration Board of South Australia (photo: her school photo)

It is alleged that just two weeks after her conviction, Papillo filed a formal complaint with her victim’s employer, falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct.

Her parents had to pay a $10,000 bond and the entire family, including her older sister, had to promise to ban all smart devices from their three-bedroom, $750,000 family home.

This means that they do not have access to WiFi in their own home.

Papillo was seen last Tuesday visiting her lawyers’ offices in Adelaide’s CBD for a 30-minute meeting.

She came out into the sunlight with a worried look on her face and hurriedly spoke to someone on the phone before rushing home.

During a bail hearing last month, prosecutors discussed the panic and fear Papillo’s alleged victims have faced.

“The nature of the crime of stalking, especially online stalking, is that it is insidious and much more difficult to stop or be protected from,” the prosecutor told the High Court of South Africa.

“These types of violations are invasive and cannot be avoided. The complainants in this case simply cannot get states to protect them because of the online nature of this crime.”

This publication does not mention the names of the victims to protect their privacy.

Papillo was seen last Tuesday visiting her lawyers’ offices in Adelaide’s CBD for a 30-minute meeting

She came out into the sunlight with a worried look on her face and hurriedly spoke to someone on the phone before rushing home

However, this is not the Papillo family’s first experience with the criminal justice system.

In 2015, Papillo’s father, Ron, was fined nearly $30,000 after repeatedly pleading guilty to threatening and abusing Environmental Protection Authority staff.

Mr Papillo, who ran an earthmoving company, insulted officers who tried to inspect his property for illegal waste storage.

‘I’ve been arrested before. I have guns,” Papillo reportedly told an officer who came to inspect his property.

‘I don’t like being bothered. Leave my site and stop looking through my stuff.

‘I was locked up because there were people on my property. That’s what I used my weapons for.’

His daughter is not allowed to possess a firearm under her bail conditions.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Papillo’s lawyers for comment.