Maggie Kirkpatrick to fight abuse charges

Veteran actress Maggie Kirkpatrick will fight shock child sex allegations.

Kirkpatrick, best known as the iconic Joan “The Freak” Ferguson in Prisoner, has been charged with with two counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency with a person under 16 years, in a case that allegedly dates back to the 1980s.

Kirkpatrick, 74, who has recently appeared in the musical Wicked, told News Corp, “I need to go to court to have this ridiculous situation quashed.

“Allegations have been levelled at me, yes. Are they true? Absolutely not.

“The evidence is in the court. I don’t think it’s appropriate that I say any more.”

She will face the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August 19.