Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

SOME cartoons or even classical writings could be illegal under Northern Territory laws outlawing child abuse material, a magistrate says.

A 24-year-old man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, attended a bail hearing yesterday accused of possessing 466 images of child abuse, about 70 per cent of them Japanese animation.

Under the NT Criminal Code, any offensive material that “depicts, describes or represents” children engaged in sex, being subjected to torture or in a demeaning context is outlawed. (more…)

INDIGENOUS children are being neglected and their rights abused because the nation and Aboriginal advocates are obsessed with having a “rights” debate that does not have kids at the centre, according to a prominent Aboriginal leader.

Outraged by the dehydration death of an eight-year-old Aboriginal girl in a West Australian desert on Tuesday, Hannah McGlade, West Australian Aboriginal Family Law Services chief executive, told The Australian we were spending too much time as a nation debating rights and constitutional change instead of Aboriginal children’s safety. (more…)

A woman and four men who ran a global paedophile ring through a fake nudist website were jailed for a total of 27 years today. A court heard its members subjected children to ‘systematic and continued sexual abuse of the worst sort.’

Police described the case as one of the most horrific incidents of child abuse they have ever investigated, with the network of paedophiles extending as far as Australia.

The ringleader pressurised his girlfriend into joining in with the abuse, according to the judge, taking advantage of her ‘low intelligence and weak character’. (more…)

A FORMER Catholic school teacher and serial paedophile could now die in jail after the District Court imposed a further 15 months on his non-parole period.

Ronald William Hopkins, 75, was today sentenced for sexually abusing two male students while he was a teacher in the 1980s.

Hopkins, who has incurable cancer, is currently serving a 10-year sentence for abusing five other male students around the same period. (more…)

WEST Australian Premier Colin Barnett wants an inquiry into how one of Australia’s worst serial pedophiles was able to continue his abuse for years after initial complaints to police.

Mr Barnett has met with Public Sector Commissioner Mal Wauchope to discuss an official inquiry into allegations that complaints against Dennis John McKenna were dismissed by police and senior public servants in the 1970s and 80s.

McKenna was jailed for six years last month after pleading guilty to sexually abusing six boys, aged 13 to 15, in his care. He had previously been jailed for six years in 1991 for similar offences and may face more charges as other victims come forth. (more…)

A PEDOPHILE who broke into a Brisbane family’s home, stripped naked and molested a three-year-old girl and took indecent photographs of the toddler as she slept has received a combined jail term of effectively eight years.

The Brisbane District Court was told Craig Anthony Ellis broke into the family’s Aspley home on Brisbane’s northside and sexually assaulted the toddler on January 21, 2009.

Ellis, then aged 29, tried to flee when the girl’s parents were awoken by their daughter’s muffled cries – resulting in the toddler’s father crash tackling the naked intruder while the mother struck the pedophile with an ornamental samurai sword. (more…)

A CRAZED pedophile who broke into a Brisbane family’s home, stripped naked and molested a toddler was then attacked with a samurai sword by the child’s mum.

The Brisbane District Court was told Craig Anthony Ellis broke into the family’s Aspley home on Brisbane’s northside and sexually assaulted the three-year-old girl on January 21, 2009.

Ellis, then aged 29, tried to flee when the girl’s parents were awoken by their daughter’s muffled cries – resulting in the toddler’s father crash-tackling the naked intruder while the mother struck the pedophile with an ornamental samurai sword. (more…)

The first step in around-the-clock monitoring of pedophiles will be taken today, with five of the state’s most dangerous sex offenders to be fitted with GPS tracking devices.

A total of 67 individuals living in transitional housing at Wacol will be fitted with the new devices.

The introduction of GPS trackers followed a community campaign in which more than 10,000 Queenslanders signed a Courier-Mail petition calling for the State Government to roll out the technology as soon as possible. (more…)

JAKARTA: The National Police said that an Australian national, identified as P.D.W. was in police custody for an alleged pedophilia case committed in 2007.

City Police cyber crime division head Sr. Comr. Winston Tommy said on Monday the suspect was in custody after Australian authorities agreed to extradition.

“We have him here in Indonesia. The man is now being detained by the police’s crime division detention center,” he said, as quoted by kompas.com. (more…)

CHILDREN who may have been neglected and abused in Victoria remain at risk after child protection services deliberately failed to investigate cases in a bid to meet their numerical reporting targets, a damning Ombudsman’s report has found.

The report – the latest in a series of scathing exposes of the state’s child protection system – also reveals that cases have been prematurely closed with insufficient assurances that the children involved were safe.

Acting Ombudsman John Taylor found 59 cases that should be reconsidered, and expressed dismay at being ”compelled” to again report on the failure of the Department of Human Services to ensure the safety of children. (more…)