Court documents reveal flood of complaints against singer

Explosive court documents obtained by the Sunday Mail reveal that there were up to 40 comments about Daniel James Stoneman on the private Facebook page “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” describing his alleged behaviour towards women in the Brisbane and Gold Coast regions.

Documents filed in the Brisbane Supreme Court last week as part of Stoneman’s successful bail application include Facebook messages to his mother warning her that women had reported him to police for sexual harassment and solicitation of prostitution.

Stoneman, 34, of Logan, faces 53 charges: He is alleged to have raped four women he met through dating apps and social media and sent sex videos of four other women.

One of the alleged victims stated that hundreds of women contacted her and all of them said, “Yeah, he tried to sneak into my DMs and was really disgusting.”

A woman told police she saw two posts about Stoneman and his behaviour towards women in the Brisbane and Gold Coast regions on a private Facebook page titled “Are we dating the same guy?”

“There have been over 40 comments from women who have reported or have reported things to varying degrees,” the woman told police in her official statement made to the Supreme Court.

“I think a girl said Dan started talking to her at a dog park in Brisbane because he was looking after a friend’s dog.

“Then he was very sexually open with her and showed her sex videos.

“Another girl sent me a message personally after I filed the report (with the police).

“She said they went home together and then she just didn’t feel like it anymore. And then he was very pushy with her and she pushed him away and said no. Then the next day he didn’t want to leave her house.”

A post to the group, written by an anonymous member and attached to a photo of Stoneman’s dating profile, reads: “Ladies, please be careful when chatting with this guy… he sent me an explicit video with a woman via Instagram direct message and said ‘that could be you.'”

Many of Stoneman’s alleged victims told police they had been in contact with each other via Instagram before the charges were filed.

According to court documents, Stoneman is also accused of burning a woman’s arm during an argument.

“At least you’ll remember not to start any more fights,” Stoneman reportedly told the woman after she told him, “This will leave scars.”

She claimed that he intentionally pressed her left wrist onto the hot stove.

Stoneman’s mother, Pia Stoneman, 65, said in court that she was a high school teacher for 45 years.

In response to an April 2020 Facebook message that said, “Girls went to police to report your son,” Ms. Stoneman told the woman, “We were not fully aware of all of his behavior online and did not fully understand the severity of it until now.”

“We will talk to him and emphasize the seriousness of his crime. We are also considering professional help.”

Five months later, the woman sent Ms. Stoneman another Facebook message. This time, she attached screenshots of messages her son had allegedly sent to women, claiming that he had again harassed women.

A message posted on Facebook by a woman and forwarded to Ms Stoneman said: “I told him he has the worst reputation and is known as ‘Dick Pic Dan’ (but) that was not a sufficient deterrent.”

Stoneman, who attended one of Brisbane’s best and oldest Catholic boys’ schools, St Laurence’s College in South Brisbane, is also accused of punching a hole in the wall of a woman’s apartment.

He denies the charge of intentional damage to property and his lawyer stated in court that the woman had admitted to a witness that she had caused the damage herself.

The alleged victim, who says she was raped in mid-2023, told police she believes up to 40 women had “negative experiences with the defendant,” court documents show.

She claims that when she confronted Stoneman about the alleged rape in her home while she was trying to sleep, he said something like, “Oh, I just thought you were such a sexual person that you would feel better afterward.”

An alleged victim told police that Stoneman choked her until she lost consciousness. During this time, he continued to have sex with her and, without her permission, recorded videos of consensual sex and sent them to other women on social media.

Police say they first became aware of Stoneman when a woman reported through alternative reporting mechanisms (ARO) in July 2019 – which is not an official report – that she had been raped a month earlier.

However, it was not until four years later, in November 2023, that a second woman complained to the police about the same ARO. This prompted the police to launch a major investigation in January this year, which led to further complaints from other alleged victims.

Police charged Stoneman with sharing intimate images of four women after they seized his phone from his parents’ home in Shailer Park in Logan on March 1 and allegedly found the videos on it.

Prosecutors allege he met his victims through dating apps Tinder or Bumble and then continued his flirtatious communication with them through social media, mostly Instagram, and subsequently arranged face-to-face meetings with them, often at his music performances in trendy bars in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

One of the alleged rape victims, who stated in her statement to police that she felt “broken and abused” by Stoneman, is said to have set up a Facebook group to bring her alleged victims together.

Defense attorney Craig Eberhardt of Kansas City said the charges are controversial and the case will be “lengthy and complicated” and could take up to five years because several separate trials may be necessary.

“The statements of each plaintiff on the more serious charges (rape, attempted rape and strangulation) are completely uncorroborated,” Mr. Eberhardt explains in his written submissions to the court.

Mr. Eberhardt claims the credibility of one of the alleged victims was damaged because another witness claimed that she was the one who punched holes in the wall of her apartment and not Stoneman.

He claims that another alleged victim “makes no mention of being responsible for creating a Facebook group that disparages (Stoneman) potential clients and people in general.”

Mr Eberhardt claims the alleged victim told a witness that she created the Facebook group “to try to bring together other women who were having problems with” Stoneman.

He also claims that the first woman to complain to police in an informal ARO in 2019 told them she had consented to the sexual conduct.

However, police claim that she indicated she did not agree when she made her formal complaint in December 2023.