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#23773289 at 2025-10-26 19:40:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28967: The First Dance Is Reserved Edition
Paedophiles exploiting Australia's broken childcare system as safeguards crumble
Paedophiles have infiltrated Australia's $22 billion childcare industry by exploiting lax regulation, piecemeal oversight and glaring staffing inadequacies, a major Four Corners investigation has uncovered.
The full scale of this crisis has been hidden - until now.
We have identified almost 150 childcare workers convicted, charged, or accused of sexual abuse and inappropriate conduct. Half of the 42 people convicted were sentenced in the last five years alone and another 14 are currently before the courts.
The public records we have pieced together show the rate of offending in childcare is increasing - exposing a system that has allowed predators to thrive.
With barely 15 per cent of reports of child sexual abuse leading to charges and only 2 per cent leading to a conviction, experts say the real number of predators who have worked in childcare over the years is likely in the thousands.
Drawing on more than 200,000 pages of previously confidential documents, police tip-offs, court records and evidence from parents, educators, whistleblowers and experts, the investigation exposes a system so broken it has created a perfect storm for abuse.
"The psychology of these people is to seek out opportunity, and childcare centres represent an excellent opportunity for them," said Drew Viney, the former head of AFP's National Victim Identification Unit, who helped catch one of the country's most prolific paedophiles, childcare worker Ashley Griffith.
"The safeguards aren't there ... there's failures at multiple levels from what I've witnessed firsthand."
"These monsters are thriving in these spaces because it's so easy for them," said the mother of a child who was repeatedly sexually abused by Griffith in NSW.
Our analysis shows that most of the abuse occurs in for-profit centres, where cost-cutting, high staff turnover, and routinely breached or gamed child-to-staff ratios leave supervision dangerously thin.
Staff burnout, low pay, and fast-tracked training courses are also gutting quality and oversight.
It's a trend that worries Michael Bourke, a global authority on child sex offenders. A forensic psychologist who has interviewed more than 1,200 offenders, he founded and led the US Marshal Behavioural Analysis Unit - one of the first teams to use behavioural science to hunt offenders.
"Predators are drawn to childcare for the same reason that fishermen are drawn to the place where there's the most fish," Dr Bourke said.
"The predators are going to look for any prey-rich environment, any environment in which there's children, and then there's a decreased chance of being detected. So they're going to be looking for places where there's instant trust ... and lack of supervision."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/childcare-centres-paedophiles-abuse-four-corners/105926324
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (5)
#21755325 at 2024-10-13 04:18:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
#36 - Part 118
Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 13
>>21575883 Western Bulldogs set to face second legal claim over historical sexual abuse - The Western Bulldogs are facing a second potentially devastating legal action over alleged abuse by a convicted pedophile who volunteered at the club. The alleged victim, now 51, claims he was abused by child predator Graeme Hobbs in 1987 after meeting him at Whitten Oval. Hobbs' first victim, Adam Kneale, was awarded $5.9 million in November 2023, after the club stalwart had admitted abusing him, was jailed and the Bulldogs were found negligent in protecting him from harm. The landmark judgement was hailed as an "earthquake" in Australia's legal system, with the sum dwarfing previous compensation payouts to abuse survivors. It was also the first successful claim against an AFL club. Kneale was aged 11 when the "jack of all trades" Hobbs first raped him at the ground in 1984. The Western Bulldogs have challenged the negligence verdict in the Kneale case, with the hearing scheduled to start in the Court of Appeal on Friday. But a second alleged victim - a schoolmate of Kneale - has now claimed in Supreme Court documents he too was befriended and abused by Hobbs at the club and off-site. He alleged Hobbs twice took him, when he was 14, from the club to an Essendon house where he was abused. On one occasion, he alleged he was forced to watch Hobbs rape Kneale, while another time he claimed he was asked to strip naked and Hobbs tried to rape him. Hobbs, who is now dead, was a club volunteer, fundraiser and under 19s training staff member. Rightside Legal partner Michael Magazanik, who represents Kneale and the alleged second victim, said both abuse survivors were committed to holding the club to account. "Both of my clients have lived with their shocking consequences of their abuse for decades,'' Mr Magazanik said. "It has caused mental illness, torment and suffering. Hobbs and his pedophile friends were convicted and jailed but that doesn't give their victims their lives back. "That's why both my clients want justice from the Western Bulldogs and it's why the jury (in the first case), six Victorians chosen at random, thought justice was required.''
>>21582871 Video: Uniting Church set cops on Ashley Griffith abuse informer - The Uniting Church accused a whistleblowing manager of damaging its reputation and future profitability for going to the media about Australia's worst pedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith, before pursuing a complaint against her with police. A leaked "show cause" notice sent to the church's early learning operations manager, Yolanda Borucki, accuses her of likely causing "significant reputational damage" and "significant damage to ongoing profitability" for emailing confidential and sensitive information to a journalist at Nine Network's A Current Affair. Eleven days after the notice, acting on a complaint from the church, police raided Ms Borucki's home on Brisbane's bayside, seized her phones and devices and charged her with computer hacking for allegedly using a restricted computer without the church's consent. Ms Borucki, 60, was charged despite still being employed by the church when she allegedly ?accessed the ?information, and having possession of her work phone, computer and car and the ability to log into her emails. The grandmother allegedly used her work email and a work device to forward the ?material. Queensland police were declining to answer questions about past complaints against Griffith when Ms Borucki appeared on the national television program in August last year. She revealed that in October 2021 a co-worker at a Uniting Church childcare centre in Brisbane reported stumbling across Griffith leaning over a sleeping girl in an outdoor fort, "basically kissing her". Police and the church cleared Griffith and dismissed the complaint. Griffith went on to rape another little girl from the same centre in his final week there after being told his position was being made redundant, court records indicate. Subsequently, he abused three more girls at other centres before his arrest in an unrelated police investigation in August 2022. The Uniting Church has said it is "deeply saddened and sorry that harm was done at one of our facilities".
#21755321 at 2024-10-13 04:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
#36 - Part 117
Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 12
>>21556741 Ashley Griffith arrest: Don't admit liability, church managers told as police traced sex abuse victims - Uniting Church managers were told by their internal insurance expert that they were not to admit any liability as police investigated the nation's worst case of child abuse in daycare, involving the rape and sexual abuse of at least 91 girls in Queensland, NSW and Italy by childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith. A raft of new documents leaked to The Australian also raise more serious questions about how authorities handled a complaint against Griffith after he appeared to have been seen kissing a sleeping girl at a Brisbane childcare centre 10 months before his arrest. A local station's police sergeant was initially assigned to the complaint, and a specialist child protection squad had still not contacted a church manager four days later to take up the investigation, it can now be revealed. After being cleared by police and the church over the complaint, Griffith went on to rape at least one more girl and sexually abused three others before his arrest in an unrelated investigation. He pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane last Monday to 307 charges. Queensland police maintain an internal review cleared officers over their handling of the complaint and of another later one against Griffith, but there are calls for a broad independent inquiry into how he was able to abuse girls for almost two full decades.
>>21561874 Child rapist Ashley Griffith's evil act after redundancy notice - The nation's worst pedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith, singled out and raped a little girl at a Uniting Church daycare centre in Brisbane in the weeks after he was told he was being made redundant and four months after a complaint about him "kissing" a girl at the same centre was dismissed, court records indicate. His devastating abuse of the girl, a new victim he is not known to have previously assaulted, on his way out of the daycare centre can be revealed as calls grow for an independent and public inquiry into how he was able to abuse children for almost two full decades. On Monday, March 14, 2022, the church's early learning operations manager Yolanda Borucki informed Griffith his position had been made redundant, according to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Nine days later, on March 23, 2022, Griffith submitted a letter of resignation from the centre, and on March 31 he emailed families announcing he had resigned. In this same period, he struck a new victim. Among the hundreds of shocking charges Griffith pleaded guilty to in Brisbane's District Court last week, five related to the rape, abuse and recording of a girl between March 23 and April 1, 2022. The charges are listed as occurring in the same suburb as the Uniting Church childcare centre. He then went on to abuse at least three more girls at other Brisbane daycare centres before his arrest in an unrelated investigation, according to the charges he pleaded guilty to. It can also be revealed one of the most senior leaders of the Uniting Church in Queensland took just 43 minutes to approve Griffith's redundancy, after he was earlier cleared of kissing a sleeping girl at the same centre. Reverend Heather den Houting was then the general secretary of the church and had been involved in managing a report from a co-worker that Griffith was seen on top of a little girl during nap time and that his "mouth was moving along her mouth" in October 2021. Both police and an internal church investigation found he had no case to answer in November 2021.
#21582871 at 2024-09-13 14:02:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
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>>21556741
Uniting Church set cops on Ashley Griffith abuse informer
DAVID MURRAY - 13 September 2024
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The Uniting Church accused a whistleblowing manager of damaging its reputation and future profitability for going to the media about Australia's worst pedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith, before pursuing a complaint against her with police.
A leaked "show cause" notice sent to the church's early learning operations manager, Yolanda Borucki, accuses her of likely causing "significant reputational damage" and "significant damage to ongoing profitability" for emailing confidential and sensitive information to a journalist at Nine Network's A Current Affair.
Eleven days after the notice, acting on a complaint from the church, police raided Ms Borucki's home on Brisbane's bayside, seized her phones and devices and charged her with computer hacking for allegedly using a restricted computer without the church's consent.
Ms Borucki, 60, was charged despite still being employed by the church when she allegedly ?accessed the ?information, and having possession of her work phone, computer and car and the ability to log into her emails. The grandmother allegedly used her work email and a work device to forward the ?material.
Queensland police were declining to answer questions about past complaints against Griffith when Ms Borucki appeared on the national television program in August last year. She revealed that in October 2021 a co-worker at a Uniting Church childcare centre in Brisbane reported stumbling across Griffith leaning over a sleeping girl in an outdoor fort, "basically kissing her". Police and the church cleared Griffith and dismissed the complaint.
Griffith went on to rape another little girl from the same centre in his final week there after being told his position was being made redundant, court records indicate. Subsequently, he abused three more girls at other centres before his arrest in an unrelated police investigation in August 2022. The Uniting Church has said it is "deeply saddened and sorry that harm was done at one of our facilities".
A mother has also alleged Queensland police dismissed her April 2022 complaint after her three-year-old daughter told her that "Ashley touched my privates" at a different Brisbane daycare centre run by the Anglican Church. At least two girls were abused after that complaint, Griffith's charges reveal.
Police maintain that in both complaints there was insufficient evidence to establish an offence occurred.
Australian Federal Police officers re-examined child abuse images and videos seized in 2014 by Queensland counterparts and traced bedsheets visible in the background to a Brisbane childcare centre, and then to Griffith.
Searches of his phones, cameras and computers uncovered 4000 child abuse images he had created.
With Griffith in custody, a year-long effort ensued to locate all the victims in his footage. Federal and state police jointly announced on August 1, 2023, that they had evidence a childcare worker, Griffith, had abused 91 girls in daycare centres in Brisbane, Sydney and Italy between 2007 and 2022. At the initial media conference, Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Justine Gough said the AFP "had no information from parents or any other person prior to this man being arrested and charged". Queensland Police Service Acting Assistant Commissioner Col Briggs said at the same news conference that the accused childcare worker was the subject of two reports investigated by state police in 2021 and 2022.
An internal review "confirmed that the matters were appropriately investigated, that there was insufficient evidence available to investigators to take action against any person at that time, and they were conducted in accordance with QPS policy", Mr Briggs said.
Asked who made the reports, he said that "as some of those matters are before the court, I won't go into details".
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#21561874 at 2024-09-10 10:32:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
>>21520935
>>21530701
>>21556741
Child rapist Ashley Griffith's evil act after redundancy notice
DAVID MURRAY - 10 September 2024
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The nation's worst pedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith, singled out and raped a little girl at a Uniting Church daycare centre in Brisbane in the weeks after he was told he was being made redundant and four months after a complaint about him "kissing" a girl at the same centre was dismissed, court records indicate.
His devastating abuse of the girl, a new victim he is not known to have previously assaulted, on his way out of the daycare centre can be revealed as calls grow for an independent and public inquiry into how he was able to abuse children for almost two full decades.
On Monday, March 14, 2022, the church's early learning operations manager Yolanda Borucki informed Griffith his position had been made redundant, according to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Nine days later, on March 23, 2022, Griffith submitted a letter of resignation from the centre, and on March 31 he emailed families announcing he had resigned.
In this same period, he struck a new victim.
Among the hundreds of shocking charges Griffith pleaded guilty to in Brisbane's District Court last week, five related to the rape, abuse and recording of a girl between March 23 and April 1, 2022. The charges are listed as occurring in the same suburb as the Uniting Church childcare centre.
He then went on to abuse at least three more girls at other Brisbane daycare centres before his arrest in an unrelated investigation, according to the charges he pleaded guilty to.
It can also be revealed one of the most senior leaders of the Uniting Church in Queensland took just 43 minutes to approve Griffith's redundancy, after he was earlier cleared of kissing a sleeping girl at the same centre.
Reverend Heather den Houting was then the general secretary of the church and had been involved in managing a report from a co-worker that Griffith was seen on top of a little girl during nap time and that his "mouth was moving along her mouth" in October 2021. Both police and an internal church investigation found he had no case to answer in November 2021.
Leaked documents sighted by The Australian show that five months after the disturbing incident, Reverend den Houting gave the green light to terminate Griffith's position with a two-word response: "Go ahead."
The Uniting Church cited a decline in enrolments when it gave Griffith a redundancy, the documents show.
The Queensland government is allowing police to investigate their dismissal of the complaint and a subsequent one from a three-year-girl at another Brisbane childcare centre, who according to her mother said Griffith "touched my privates".
The second complaint was made in April 2022 but police decided there was insufficient evidence of an offence after the girl was asked to point on a teddy bear to where she had been touched and became confused, her mother said.
Premier Steven Miles said on Monday that "if there is any way we can avoid any Queensland child experiencing abuse like this again, then we will do it".
He added: "I think any parent, indeed any Queenslander, has been shocked by what happened here. It should never have happened. The Police Commissioner is having another review of this case to see if there is anything that can or should have been done ?differently."
University of South Australia adjunct research professor Chris Goddard, an expert on child safety, said on Monday it was "essential" to have an independent and public inquiry.
"There is no system that needs transparency more than child protection. It sends a message to victims that nothing will be covered up," Dr Goddard said. "How many other offences are there that we don't yet know about?"
Stressing he was an admirer of Queensland's Task Force Argos online child exploitation unit, he said there were still important questions for state and federal police to answer about whether Griffith could have been stopped earlier.
Child abuse images and videos that were used to identify Griffith had been recovered by Argos eight years earlier, in 2014, in an investigation into a child abuse forum known as The Love Zone on the dark web.
The abuse material had been uploaded to an Interpol child sexual exploitation database, with no result until the Australian Federal Police victim identification officers reviewed the images and ?videos.
"The inquiry needs to go back the full 20 years or however many years he's been out there," Dr Goddard said.
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#21556741 at 2024-09-09 10:27:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
>>21520935
>>21530701
Ashley Griffith arrest: Don't admit liability, church managers told as police traced sex abuse victims
DAVID MURRAY - 8 September 2024
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Uniting Church managers were told by their internal insurance expert that they were not to admit any liability as police investigated the nation's worst case of child abuse in daycare, involving the rape and sexual abuse of at least 91 girls in Queensland, NSW and Italy by childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith.
A raft of new documents leaked to The Australian also raise more serious questions about how authorities handled a complaint against Griffith after he appeared to have been seen kissing a sleeping girl at a Brisbane childcare centre 10 months before his arrest.
A local station's police sergeant was initially assigned to the complaint, and a specialist child protection squad had still not contacted a church manager four days later to take up the investigation, it can now be revealed.
After being cleared by police and the church over the complaint, Griffith went on to rape at least one more girl and sexually abused three others before his arrest in an unrelated investigation.
He pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane last Monday to 307 charges.
Queensland police maintain an internal review cleared officers over their handling of the complaint and of another later one against Griffith, but there are calls for a broad independent inquiry into how he was able to abuse girls for almost two full decades.
Federal police arrested Griffith in August 2022 after reviewing child abuse images and videos recovered eight years earlier in a major 2014 operation by the Queensland police online child exploitation squad, Task Force Argos.
Bedsheets visible in the footage were traced to a Brisbane childcare centre where Griffith had previously worked, leading to his identification as the abuser of an initial two girls, sources say.
More than 4000 images and videos chronicling his rape and sexual abuse of girls in childcare centres were then discovered in a search of his phones, cameras and computers in a raid on his home on the Gold Coast, where he was still working in daycare when he was arrested.
Federal and Queensland police on Friday declined to comment on what if anything could have been done to identify Griffith sooner.
In October 2022, two months after Griffith's arrest, federal police contacted Uniting Church childcare managers as investigators scrambled to find all the victims he'd recorded on phones and cameras while working in daycare centres.
Subsequently, at 5.45pm on Monday, October 31, 2022, the church's Queensland communications manager, Rebecca Riggs, sent an email inquiring about the insurance impacts of waiving and refunding fees.
"A parent at (the childcare centre) has raised the waiving of fees and a request for a refund," Ms Riggs wrote.
The church's insurance adviser, Phil Barnard, replied at 10.01am the following day.
"Generally, the conditions of insurance policies require that the insured party (UCAQ) not make any admission of liability," Mr Barnard wrote.
His response to Ms Riggs and other senior managers copied into the email also raised the prospect of obtaining a "release" from the parent.
Mr Barnard did not elaborate, but a release form can involve people waiving their right to sue.
The emails sighted by The Australian do not say why the parent was seeking a refund and fee waiver.
"You haven't mentioned what the parent's allegation is or what amount of money is involved but I imagine that it would be a professional indemnity matter i.e. an allegation against our professional delivery of service.
"This policy carries a $20,000 excess," he wrote.
"It is usually better in situ?ations like this to obtain a 'release' of some kind but I understand why you would not want to."
Also copied into the emails was the church's early learning operations manager Yolanda ?Borucki and two other managers.
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