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#21755325 at 2024-10-13 04:18:56 (UTC+1)
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#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.

#21755313 at 2024-10-13 04:16:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 115
Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 10
>>21525868 'Never free this predator': parents' plea on pedophile childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith after pleading guilty to 306 child abuse charges - The parents of a little girl preyed upon by Australia's worst alleged pedophile have been joined by a leading abuse advocate in calling for the former childcare worker to never be released after he pleaded guilty to more than 300 child abuse charges. Ashley Paul Griffith appeared in Brisbane's District Court on Monday before a courtroom packed with families of young girls he abused over 15 years as he moved between Queensland, NSW and Italy. Griffith accepted 28 counts of rape against at least 12 children, 190 counts of unlawfully and indecently dealing with a child and 67 counts of making child exploitation material. He also pleaded guilty to 15 counts of maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, four counts of producing child abuse material outside of Australia, one count of distributing child abuse material outside of Australia, one count of using a carriage service for child pornography material and one count of possessing child exploitation material. A man and woman whose daughter was allegedly abused by Griffith said life in prison was not long enough for the man who had been so prolific in his abuse. "It's a little bit disappointing that life is probably not as long as we'd like, especially if there's any kind of parole element to that," said the father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his child.
>>21530701 Queensland Police asked to reinvestigate failed complaints about pedophile Ashley Paul Griffith - The Queensland Police Minister has demanded a new internal investigation into officers' handling of complaints about a childcare worker's behaviour with young girls before he was unmasked as Australia's worst pedophile. After Ashley Paul Griffith, 46, pleaded guilty to more than 300 charges of child exploitation on Monday, Labor government minister Mark Ryan ordered Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski to conduct another review of how two complaints made to officers in 2021 and '22 were handled. An internal review was previously completed by police, which found the matters were appropriately investigated and the claims could not be substantiated. Mr Ryan said it was important nothing else could be learned. "The level of trauma he has inflicted upon so many is almost beyond comprehension," Mr Ryan said. "Notwithstanding this matter having been previously reviewed, I have asked the commissioner if this matter could be examined again. If any improvements or learnings can be identified, then it is my expectation they should be implemented as soon as possible." A former co-worker of Griffith, Yolanda Borucki, 60, alerted police in August 2021 to an incident involving the man and a child. However, investigators said there was insufficient evidence to lay charges. Within weeks, he returned to the centre before moving on to two other facilities in neighbouring northside suburbs in early 2022. A separate investigation was undertaken by Queensland Police in April 2022, but no details are known. In that time, he assaulted several other young girls before his arrest that August.
>>21547193 'He got me when I was young': The brave evidence of Dick Caine's victims - One of Sydney swimming coach Dick Caine's victims was just 10 when she was first sexually abused by the man her parents had considered the "ants pants". More than four decades later, when news of Caine's arrest broke in 2022, the woman cried as she told her husband: "He got me when I was young." Caine's identity was covered by a non-publication order as six complainants gave evidence during his judge-alone special hearing from June to August in Downing Centre District Court. That veil of secrecy was lifted last week after Judge Paul McGuire found, on the limited evidence available, Caine had committed 39 offences of child sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s. Caine, 78, was deemed unfit to face a traditional trial due to health reasons. His lawyers in 2022 said he had terminal cancer, that he would probably not make Christmas 2023, and now claim he is in palliative care. His victims are outraged Caine did not front up to a single day of proceedings and is not in custody. This is what they told Caine's hearing, according to the judge's 132-page summary of evidence published after the verdicts.

#21755310 at 2024-10-13 04:16:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 114
Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 9
>>21507224 NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon charged with child sex offences; quits party, parliament - NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon has quit his party and his seat after he was charged by police with historic child sex offences, allegations he says he will deny in court. Mr Amon, the representative for the state electorate of Pittwater appeared before Magistrate Lisa Stapleton at Manly Local Court on Friday afternoon. The charges relate to an alleged sexual assault in Mona Vale in July 2017, in which Mr Amon allegedly assaulted a teenage boy who was known to him. Mr Amon was charged with five counts of sexual intercourse with a person over 10 and under 14 years, two charges of indecent assault of a person under 16 years, one charge of commit act of indecency with a person under 16 years and two charges of attempting sexual intercourse child with a child over 10 under 14. "Following extensive inquiries, a 35-year-old man was arrested at Manly Police Station about 6am today," a NSW Police spokesperson said. "In March 2023, Strike Force NOORAL was established to investigate the incident." The taskforce investigation began the same month Mr Amon was elected to parliament, he is the opposition assistant youth spokesperson. All ten alleged incidents took place between June 1 and late July in Mona Vale. The teenage boy, according to court documents, was 13 years old at the time of Mr Amon's alleged sexual offences. Born Roderick Gilmore Amon, he joined the Northern Beaches Council in September 2017, meaning the alleged assault predates his political career by two months. Prior to local politics he worked as a family law solicitor with a specialty in domestic and family violence.
>>21520935 Daycare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith pleads guilty to sexually abusing dozens of children in Brisbane and Italy - A former Queensland childcare worker has pleaded guilty to raping, sexually abusing and exploiting dozens of girls under his care. Ashley Paul Griffith was arraigned on more than 300 charges in the District Court in Brisbane today. The offences against around 60 children happened between 2003 and 2022 at early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy. Several victims and their families were in court, with some parents crying as the names of their children were read out. The parents of one of the young victims, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, described the "horrific" moment they were told their daughter had been sexually abused. They said they thought police were contacting them about another incident at the daycare centre. Instead, they were asked to identify their child from a photo. "We see people going in [to the daycare centre now], and I [think], this happened to my child in that room," the child's mother said. "It's a room of horrors." The child's father said it was "hard to believe" how someone could "get away with something like that for so long". The couple said they decided to tell their daughter about what happened to her, but she's still very young and doesn't entirely understand. "As she grows up, we'll deal with that as it comes but it's going to be something we deal with through our lives now," the child's father said. "It was good that [he pleaded guilty] and we can move onto the next step now."
>>21521002 Video: Brisbane childcare rapist unseen for years in 'broken' system - The parents of one of dozens of young girls raped by a childcare worker say the system is broken and they can't fathom how he got away with prolific offending over years in a "room full of horrors". Ashley Paul Griffith, 46, today pleaded guilty in Brisbane District Court to more than 300 child sex offences including 28 charges of rape, as well as ongoing sexual abuse and making child exploitation material. Griffith committed the crimes at childcare centres in multiple Brisbane suburbs over a span of more than 19 years. The parents of one of the victims, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, spoke outside court after Griffith spent more than two hours entering his pleas to each individual charge. "We certainly feel there's something broken in the system," the victim's father said. "How someone like that could get away with that for so long, it's hard to believe it's being run as effectively as it could be". The victim's mother said she wanted to stand outside the childcare centre where her daughter was attacked in order to warn other parents. "It happened to my child in that room. It's a room full of horrors," she said. The mother said her complaint about Griffith's behaviour in 2018 was not acted upon and she accused the centre of being run "as a business, not as a place that was looking after children".

#21582871 at 2024-09-13 14:02:29 (UTC+1)
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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)
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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)
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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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#21530701 at 2024-09-04 10:50:16 (UTC+1)
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Queensland Police asked to reinvestigate failed complaints about pedophile Ashley Paul Griffith

MACKENZIE SCOTT - 3 September 2024

The Queensland Police Minister has demanded a new internal investigation into officers' handling of complaints about a childcare worker's behaviour with young girls before he was unmasked as Australia's worst pedophile.

After Ashley Paul Griffith, 46, pleaded guilty to more than 300 charges of child exploitation on Monday, Labor government minister Mark Ryan ordered Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski to conduct another review of how two complaints made to officers in 2021 and '22 were handled.

An internal review was previously completed by police, which found the matters were appropriately investigated and the claims could not be substantiated.

Mr Ryan said it was important nothing else could be learned.

"The level of trauma he has inflicted upon so many is almost beyond comprehension," Mr Ryan said. "Speaking generally, I know police will always do their very best to act upon complaints and conduct thorough investigations to ensure that perpetrators are held to account.

"Notwithstanding this matter having been previously reviewed, I have asked the commissioner if this matter could be examined again. If any improvements or learnings can be identified, then it is my expectation they should be implemented as soon as possible."

A former co-worker of Griffith, Yolanda Borucki, 60, alerted police in August 2021 to an incident involving the man and a child. However, investigators said there was insufficient evidence to lay charges. Within weeks, he returned to the centre before moving on to two other facilities in neighbouring northside suburbs in early 2022.

A separate investigation was undertaken by Queensland Police in April 2022, but no details are known. In that time, he assaulted several other young girls before his arrest that August.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said the review was conducted by an independent senior detective with significant child protection experience.

"This review found both investigations had been conducted ?according to QPS policy and concurred with the original findings that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate a criminal offence based on what was known at the time," she said.

"Some evidence that was presented during the recent prosecution was not known at the time of the original QPS investigations.

"The QPS will continue to consider this investigation as legal proceedings progress."

Had Griffith been charged with an offence in either instance, his Blue Card - which allowed him to work with children - would have been revoked.

A Blue Card is cancelled only if a holder is charged with a relevant offence, with police information monitored daily. Griffith's card was suspended and his employer notified after his arrest in 2022.

Ms Borucki eventually went to the media and was charged by detectives from Task Force Argos - ?responsible for investigating ?online child exploitation and abuse - with computer hacking. The matter is still before the courts.

Australian Federal Police officers arrested Griffith after an eight-year investigation into child exploitation material found on the dark web led them back to the man who worked in almost a dozen childcare centres in Brisbane, Sydney and Pisa, Italy, from 2007 to 2022. Investigators tracked bed sheets in the images back to those used in childcare centres in Brisbane.

On Monday, Griffith pleaded guilty to 28 counts of rape of at least a dozen different children, 15 counts of maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, 190 counts of unlawfully and indecently dealing with a child and 67 counts of making child exploitation material, among several other charges.

The matter will next be heard for a mention on September 9, with sentencing likely later this year.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/queensland-police-asked-to-reinvestigate-failed-complaints-about-pedophile-Ashley-Paul-Griffith/news-story/89c5c622810c7806c3fcbacdeff0648a

#21525868 at 2024-09-03 10:17:28 (UTC+1)
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'Never free this predator': parents' plea on pedophile childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith after pleading guilty to 306 child abuse charges

MACKENZIE SCOTT - September 02, 2024

The parents of a little girl preyed upon by Australia's worst alleged pedophile have been joined by a leading abuse advocate in calling for the former childcare worker to never be released after he pleaded guilty to more than 300 child abuse charges.

Ashley Paul Griffith appeared in Brisbane's District Court on Monday before a courtroom packed with families of young girls he abused over 15 years as he moved between Queensland, NSW and Italy.

Griffith accepted 28 counts of rape against at least 12 children, 190 counts of unlawfully and indecently dealing with a child and 67 counts of making child exploitation material.

He also pleaded guilty to 15 counts of maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, four counts of producing child abuse material outside of Australia, one count of distributing child abuse material outside of Australia, one count of using a carriage service for child pornography material and one count of possessing child exploitation material.

A man and woman whose daughter was allegedly abused by Griffith said life in prison was not long enough for the man who had been so prolific in his abuse. "It's a little bit disappointing that life is probably not as long as we'd like, especially if there's any kind of parole element to that," said the father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his child.

"It was good that it was a guilty plea and that we can move on to the next step now.

"It would have been awful if he had pled innocent, and then we have to go through that."

Australian Federal Police arrested Griffith eight years after child exploitation material found on the dark web led them back to the man who worked in almost a dozen childcare centres in Brisbane, Sydney and Pisa, Italy, from 2007 to 2022.

Investigators traced bedsheets in some of the abuse footage to Brisbane childcare centres, eventually leading to the identification of Griffith as the offender. Some of his alleged victims are now adults.

Child abuse campaigner Hetty Johnston said no one should have to ever worry again where Griffith was living or what he was doing. "This is the type of predator that should never, ever see the outside of a jail," Ms Johnston said.

"Our system is so much more concerned about the civil rights of adults than they are about the human rights of children. For me, it's throw away the key."

Each rape charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Making child exploitation material comes with a maximum term of 25 years in Queensland, while the charges of indecent treatment of a child under 12 carry up to 20 years behind bars.

The parents of the young girl sat beside two other couples in the public gallery, separated by a panel of perspex from Griffith in the dock. Each pair held each other and cried at times throughout the childcare worker's mammoth 2?-hour indictment.

Griffith responded "guilty" to each allegation and declined an opportunity by judge Anthony Rafter to make a statement at the end of proceedings.

The couple who spoke outside the court said they reported allegations he threatened to smack a child at the childcare centre where he was working, but their claim wasn't investigated by the operator. "They said, 'Leave it with me, I will deal with that'," the mother said.

"It was never put forward. They (the child care centre) did not tell the (other) child's parents or anything."

The father added: "That's been the hard thing to process, that every child after that incident, effectively, we could have stopped it."

The couple said their now primary school-aged daughter was doing well, but they were prepared to offer her more support as she grew older and understood the gravity of what happened to her.

Ms Johnston said it was important the parents did not blame themselves and commended them for working with the police to get justice.

Griffith did not apply for bail and will remain in custody. He will undergo a psychiatric assessment in October prior to sentencing later in the year.

The matter will next be heard for a mention on September 9.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/childcare-worker-Ashley-Paul-Griffith-pleads-guilty-to-306-child-abuse-charges/news-story/49fdf379595094b2dfea726ec72859d2

#21521002 at 2024-09-02 11:23:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

>>21520935
Brisbane childcare rapist unseen for years in 'broken' system

Rex Martinich - Sep 2, 2024

The parents of one of dozens of young girls raped by a childcare worker say the system is broken and they can't fathom how he got away with prolific offending over years in a "room full of horrors".

Ashley Paul Griffith, 46, today pleaded guilty in Brisbane District Court to more than 300 child sex offences including 28 charges of rape, as well as ongoing sexual abuse and making child exploitation material.

Griffith committed the crimes at childcare centres in multiple Brisbane suburbs over a span of more than 19 years.

The parents of one of the victims, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, spoke outside court after Griffith spent more than two hours entering his pleas to each individual charge.

"We certainly feel there's something broken in the system," the victim's father said.

"How someone like that could get away with that for so long, it's hard to believe it's being run as effectively as it could be".

The victim's mother said she wanted to stand outside the childcare centre where her daughter was attacked in order to warn other parents

"It happened to my child in that room. It's a room full of horrors," she said.

The mother said her complaint about Griffith's behaviour in 2018 was not acted upon and she accused the centre of being run "as a business, not as a place that was looking after children".

Griffith faced court today for arraignment and replied "guilty" when each charge was read to Judge Anthony Rafter and a courtroom overflowing with victims' families and police detectives.

He admitted to offences against multiple children while working in childcare centres across Brisbane between January 2003 and August 2022.

Dressed in a striped polo shirt and jeans, the Gold Coast resident stood for two hours while hundreds of charges were read out.

Griffith was arrested in August 2022 by Australian Federal Police and originally charged with more than 1000 offences against 91 young girls, but hundreds of charges were later dropped.

He pleaded guilty to 190 counts of indecent treatment of children aged under 12 while a carer, 67 counts of taking indecent photos and videos of children, and 15 counts of repeated sexual abuse of a child.

Griffith also admitted to seven counts of possessing child exploitation material and distributing the material outside of Australia to locations in Italy.

Crown prosecutor Stephanie Gallagher told Judge Rafter a pre-sentence report and psychiatric evaluation would be ready by November.

"It would be appropriate to list (the sentencing to last) for two days ... There is a large number of victims in this case and family members who I suspect will be interested in providing impact statements," Gallagher said.

Judge Rafter said he would take that into account as "sometimes there is a request for victim impact material to be read out".

Defence barrister Sarah Cartledge submitted that sentencing should be delayed at least a month after the reports were provided.

"Defence have taken active steps to make sure this matter is expedited ... pushing that sentence out another month isn't a significant delay," she said.Judge Rafter adjourned the matter to September 9 to discuss a sentencing date.

Griffith did not seek bail and was returned to custody.

Outside court, the parents of one victim welcomed the guilty plea, saying it would allow them to move on to the next step.

The father was relieved the guilty pleas avoided a trial as "it would have been awful if he didn't plead (guilty)".

The mother said the evidence against Griffith was overwhelming and she was thankful not to have the added trauma of a trial.

"The idea of him being able to see the pictures of all these children again (at trial) would be heartbreaking."

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If you or anyone you know needs support, you can contact the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), Lifeline (13 11 14), the Suicide Call Back Service (1300 659 467), Beyond Blue (1300 22 4636) and Kids Helpline (1800 55 1800).

https://www.1800respect.org.au/

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/

https://www.kidshelpline.com.au/

https://www.9news.com.au/national/brisbane-childcare-worker-Ashley-Paul-Griffith-pleads-guilty-to-300-child-sex-offences/9e7c05b3-1987-418e-a1d4-0bc86f894b90

#21520935 at 2024-09-02 10:58:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

Daycare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith pleads guilty to sexually abusing dozens of children in Brisbane and Italy

Laura Lavelle - 2 September 2024

Warning: This story contains details of child sexual abuse.

A former Queensland childcare worker has pleaded guilty to raping, sexually abusing and exploiting dozens of girls under his care.

Ashley Paul Griffith was arraigned on more than 300 charges in the District Court in Brisbane today.

The offences against around 60 children happened between 2003 and 2022 at early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy.

Several victims and their families were in court, with some parents crying as the names of their children were read out.

The parents of one of the young victims, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, described the "horrific" moment they were told their daughter had been sexually abused.

They said they thought police were contacting them about another incident at the daycare centre. Instead, they were asked to identify their child from a photo.

"We see people going in [to the daycare centre now], and I [think], this happened to my child in that room," the child's mother said.

"It's a room of horrors."

The child's father said it was "hard to believe" how someone could "get away with something like that for so long".

The couple said they decided to tell their daughter about what happened to her, but she's still very young and doesn't entirely understand.

"As she grows up, we'll deal with that as it comes but it's going to be something we deal with through our lives now," the child's father said.

"It was good that [he pleaded guilty] and we can move onto the next step now."

Griffith emotionless as he pleaded guilty

Griffith remains in custody and will be sentenced on another date.

The court heard the sentencing could take more than two days, with several victim impact statements to be read.

The then 45-year-old from the Gold Coast was arrested in August 2022 by federal police and charged with multiple Commonwealth child exploitation material offences.

He was later charged with more than 1,400 offences, including dozens of rapes, after further child abuse material was discovered on his electronic devices.

Earlier this year, an indictment was presented to the District Court with a heavily reduced number of charges.

Today before Judge Anthony Rafter further charges against Griffith were dropped, bringing the total number of offences to 307.

They include 190 counts of indecent treatment, 28 counts of rape, 67 counts of making child exploitation material, four counts of producing child abuse material outside of Australia, 15 counts of repeated sexual conduct with a child and more.

It took Judge Rafter's associate more two hours to read out and have Griffith arraigned on all charges.

Griffith appeared emotionless as he pleaded guilty to every charge.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/Ashley-Paul-Griffith-pleads-guilty-sexual-abuse-children/104299284

#20276768 at 2024-01-21 08:12:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

Dark web detectives say abuse videos traced to NSW holiday town

Perry Duffin - January 21, 2024

To detectives working through horrific child abuse videos posted on the dark web, mundane domestic details inadvertently captured by the abuser's camera told them a child was suffering somewhere in Australia.

Frame by frame, week after week, detectives pieced together fragments of information until, days before Christmas, armed officers descended on Port Macquarie on the NSW Mid North Coast.

The Australian Federal Police were trawling forums on the dark web for child abuse material in late November when they found a series of videos.

Users of the dark web often connect to the shady websites using encrypted browsers or devices that mask their original location and identity.

But abusers are rarely as anonymous as they hope. Power points, vegetation, clothing and furniture help detectives narrow down video recordings to countries, regions and even single communities.

The AFP's victim identification squad specialises in such work and went through every single image of every video, attempting to identify the location.

They knew the videos were shot in Australia and, within weeks, allegedly had enough details to track the videos to a man near the surf town four hours north of Sydney.

The AFP and NSW Police child abuse squad on December 21 swarmed a farm property outside Port Macquarie.

Footage obtained by the Herald shows a 30-year-old man being led from a cluster of tents, caravans and sheds as chickens peck about in the grass.

His hands are cuffed as a plain-clothed officer marches him to the waiting unmarked car.

Investigators will allege items from the home, including clothing linked to both the man and the child, were matched to the videos uploaded to the dark web.

A search warrant executed at the farm allegedly found child abuse videos on electronic devices, which were taken away to be examined by experts.

The 30-year-old, who the Herald has chosen not to name to protect the identity of his alleged victim, was charged with 66 offences - the bulk of which relate to producing child abuse material.

Two of the charges, sexual intercourse with a child under 10, carry a potential life sentence in prison if found guilty.

"This arrest shows how the AFP and its partners are dedicated to fighting child sexual abuse year-round," AFP Commander Human Exploitation Helen Schneider said.

"It is also a stark reminder that when police identify a child in a potentially dangerous situation, we will move quickly and decisively to ensure that child's safety, and pursue anyone producing, sharing or accessing this abhorrent material."

NSW Police child abuse squad commander Linda Howlett said protecting children was her team's top priority. She oversees the single largest specialised squad in the NSW Police, which operates out of 19 locations in the state.

The 30-year-old man did not apply for release on bail and will reappear at Port Macquarie Local Court next month.

The AFP in August charged a Queensland daycare worker with more than 1600 charges after one small detail allegedly linked him to abuse videos on the dark web.

Ashley Paul Griffith, 45, was allegedly behind the abuse of 91 girls in Sydney and Queensland centres as far back as 2007. He is not allegedly linked to the Port Macquarie case.

Griffith had allegedly kept faces cropped out of the thousands of videos and photographs police claim he uploaded to the dark web - but had inadvertently included a set of unique bedsheets in the background.

The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) has this month urged parents and carers to take additional steps to keep children safe from predators. That includes blurring school logos and uniforms to conceal where children go to school.

The ACCCE each month receives about 300 reports of 'child sextortion' where children are targeted and tricked or coerced into sending sexual images of themselves, which are later used in blackmail plots.

The demands could be for money, more graphic content or even physical contact.

"We want parents and carers to be alert to the signs, report, and seek help and guidance if they have been targeted by offenders," Commander Schneider said.

"If your child is or has been a victim, it is important to stay calm and reassure them that it's not their fault and that there is help available."

Report abuse to accce.gov.au

https://www.accce.gov.au/

Get help at kidshelpline.com.au - 1800 55 1800

https://kidshelpline.com.au/

https://kidshelpline.com.au/teens/issues/sextortion-what-it-and-what-do-about-it

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/dark-web-detectives-say-abuse-videos-traced-to-nsw-holiday-town-20240119-p5eyo7.html

#19686068 at 2023-10-07 15:37:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

>>19656358
Alleged childcare pedophile Ashley Paul Griffith attacked by inmate in Wolston jail

Thomas Chamberlin - October 7, 2023

One of Australia's worst alleged pedophiles was rushed to hospital after an inmate tipped boiling water over him at a Brisbane jail.

The Courier-Mail can reveal Ashley Paul Griffith was assaulted in unit S3 at Wolston on Friday.

Griffith was taken to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital suffering facial burns after the incident which happened just after midday.

He was taken to the hospital to assess his burns.

The Courier-Mail was told the prisoner who assaulted Griffith may have even added jam to the hot water for the "napalm" attack to make the assault more painful and stick to him.

The inmate allegedly assaulted two prisoners.

Officers have told The Courier-Mail the second prisoner assaulted by the inmate was Brett Peter Cowan, who murdered schoolboy Daniel Morcombe.

It's understood Cowan was punched.

The assault on Griffith comes just days after the alleged pedophile was named for the first time under changes to Queensland laws which allow alleged sex offenders to be named after they are charged.

Griffith is facing more than 1600 charges relating to 91 young girls from 10 Brisbane childcare centres, a Sydney childcare centre and an international centre between 2007 and 2022.

The Gold Coast man has been charged with 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10.

He has also been charged with more than 600 counts of indecent treatment of a child and more than 600 counts of making child exploitation material.

He allegedly photographed and filmed the girls.

Griffith was arrested in August last year and was originally charged with two counts of making child exploitation material and one count of using a carriage service for child abuse material.

After investigators examined his devices he was charged with more than 1600 offences.

Before that point Griffith, 45, had spent about a year in the protection unit at Arthur Gorrie jail, which is the state's remand centre, where he had gained a job in prison industries.

Once the 1600-plus charges were announced he was placed into the detention unit for his own safety after people inside the jail became aware he was the person facing the charges.

He was then transferred to Brisbane Correctional Centre and was placed into the "special management unit".

At a later point he was transferred to Wolston jail at Wacol.

"Unit s3 is for the most protected prisoners that make the media and the worst sex offenders," an officer said.

When asked about the Friday incident involving the boiling water a Queensland Corrective Services spokeswoman confirmed a prisoner assaulted two other prisoners at Wolston.

"One prisoner was assessed by medical staff on site with no treatment required and the other has been transported to hospital for further assessment," she said.

"No officers were injured in the incident."

The incident has been referred to the Corrective Services Investigation Unit of the Queensland Police Service.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-qld/alleged-childcare-pedophile-Ashley-Paul-Griffith-attacked-by-inmates-in-wolston-jail/news-story/53b4f871365603003af392fb1faa93b4

#19656358 at 2023-10-03 09:30:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

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>>19284162 (pb)
>>19289945 (pb)
Unmasked: the face of Australia's worst alleged pedophile - Ashley Paul Griffith

MACKENZIE SCOTT, DAVID MURRAY and MICHAEL MCKENNA - OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is the face of the childcare worker alleged to be Australia's worst pedophile.

Ashley Paul Griffith can be identified for the first time under new Queensland laws that allow alleged sex offenders to be named before they are committed to stand trial.

The 45-year-old former childcare worker stands accused of 1623 charges relating to the abuse of 91 little girls over a 15-year period in a dozen centres spanning states and continents.

The Australian could reveal his identity as of 12.01am on Tuesday when new laws came into effect to "modernise" the reporting of such offences and hold perpetrators to account, with media now able to name those accused in a slew of cases before the courts.

However, other accused serious sex offenders, including a high-profile Australian man and two reality show contestants, can still not be named due to court-issued suppression orders that override the legislative changes.

Griffith has remained anonymous since his arrest by the Australian Federal Police in August 2022. The case was made public by the AFP a year later in August after more than 1000 child exploitation charges were laid against him for offences at 10 centres in Brisbane, one in Sydney's inner-west and another in Pisa, Italy between 2007 and 2022.

It followed an eight-year-long investigation that had allegedly connected the Gold Coast man to child abuse material posted online in 2014, AFP officers said while announcing his arrest eight weeks ago.

Court documents viewed by The Australian allege he systematically recorded each assault and rape on phones and cameras, keeping meticulous files of each of his victims. The charges revealed a pattern of escalating offending, with two little girls at one centre raped more than two dozen times each over several months.

Prior to his arrest, Griffith worked as a director of a childcare centre on Brisbane's northside. In a since-deleted staff profile on the childcare centre's website that has been viewed archived online, Griffith said he was a "firm believer in play-based learning".

"I love engaging children in meaningful experiences that inspire their play and learning," he said.

"Young children are natural inquirers, exploring the world through their senses, seeking answers and building theories. As an Early Childhood Teacher I hope to share this journey, learning side-by-side children and inspiring them."

The first known alleged offences took place at a Brisbane centre in 2007 and continued until Griffith moved to Pisa, Italy in 2013, to work at an international school. He moved back to Australia in 2014, settling in Sydney's inner-west and working at the same centre until 2017. He returned to Brisbane for family reasons in 2018, according to his staff profile.

It was while working in Europe that police allege he posted abuse material to an online forum, with 27 charges laid for the distribution of child pornography outside of Australia between October 2013 and June 2014.

The AFP said families attending the affected locations had been notified prior to the arrest being made public.

Griffith had previously been investigated by Queensland Police on two occasions in 2021 and again in 2022, but no charges were laid despite a former colleague alleging she had seen him kissing a child.

His blue card which allowed him to work with children was unaffected as a result, with court documents revealing he had allegedly continued to offend up until two months before his arrest.

The changes to Queensland laws to publicly name adults charged with rape and other prescribed sexual offences before they are committed to stand trial were passed in September.

The move was born from the landmark Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce to bring Queensland more in line with the rest of the country.

Previously, media could not name accused persons until after they were committed to trial, due to concerns over "reputational damage" caused if somebody maliciously made up complaints.

Griffith is due to appear in court again on November 6.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/unmasked-the-face-of-australias-worst-alleged-pedophile/news-story/5701e1a810bab1646a293141392a66e2