Evil predator who brutally raped a seven-year-old girl inside a public toilet at her dance school DIES in prison of liver cancer just over a year into his life sentence A sadistic paedophile who brutally raped a seven-year-old girl inside a public toilet at her dance studio has died in jail of liver cancer. Anthony Sampieri, 56, dragged the little girl at knife point into the bathroom of a dance school in Kogarah, in Sydney's south, in November 2018 and sexually abused her for 40 minutes. Sampieri died in an isolation unit at Long Bay Prison Hospital, where he was receiving treatment for liver cancer. He had been given just a 60 per cent chance of surviving the next five years. Sampieri, a self-confessed ice user, in February lodged an appeal with the Court of Criminal Appeal. One of his previous victims said the decision proved he had no remorse for his crimes. 'If Sampieri was truly remorseful, he would decline putting the victims through any more pain and suffering than he already has by telling his lawyers to go kick rocks,' they said. He became the first paedophile in Australia to be jailed for life for sexually assaulting a child, setting a precedent for future cases.