Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

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…)

The identity of one Australia’s most notorious pedophiles will remain secret after a judge found he would be at risk from vigilante action if his name was revealed.

The pedophile is still considered a risk of committing offences, but is allowed to go on public outings and wants to live unsupervised in the community.

A Victorian County Court judge says revealing his name publicly would lead to media attention and increase the risk to the community.

“The risk of this being followed by vigilante type action is considerable,” she said. (more…)

AN alleged pedophile charged with committing 99 sex offences against a young girl, including child prostitution and producing child pornography, has been granted bail.

Richard Paul Baxter, 63, is the third person in three weeks to face court over the eight years of alleged abuse endured by the girl at a property in Brisbane’s southern suburbs, which police say ended only last month.

Mr Baxter was arrested on Monday and charged with 94 counts of indecent treatment of a child, four counts of obtaining prostitution and one count of making child exploitation material since 2004. (more…)

PEDOPHILE Roy Friend has been returned to jail after a court heard allegations he tried to groom a 15-year-old boy in Goodna a month after being placed under a supervision order.

In the Court of Appeal, Justice Margaret White said Friend, who had a long history of offences against teenage boys, was released on a Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act supervision order last November.

She said it was now alleged Friend breached his order several times by visiting a store in Goodna last December and in January. (more…)

A SERIAL child rapist who passed on the children he abused to other pedophiles, including the notorious Robert “Dolly” Dunn, should receive a lengthy jail sentence, a court has been told.

John Thomas Shiel, 62, pleaded guilty in April to 54 child sex offences dating as far back as 1977, with children as young as 10. He was part of a pedophile ring that was active in Sydney in the 1980s and had links with Dunn, who died in prison in July 2009. (more…)

A judge has ordered a serial pedophile who targets young boys should not be released from jail.

54-year-old Kerry Patrick Valence has been sexually abusing children since he was 18 and is currently in jail for abusing a boy in 2004.

Valence was the first person in Queensland to be held in custody on a continuing detention order, following a review of his case in 2009. (more…)

A pedophile with a decade-long history of child sex offences will undergo further psychiatric assessment before he can be released from jail.

Mark Trevor Marshall appeared at the South Australian Supreme Court on Friday, after the Director of Public Prosecutions applied to review his planned release under supervision.

Marshall was jailed indefinitely in 2009 after a string of convictions dating back more than 10 years. (more…)

A CONVICTED pedophile maintained views about children’s ability to consent to sexual activity which made him a danger if released back into the community, a court heard.

In the Supreme Court in Brisbane, psychiatrist Michael Beech was giving evidence in a review hearing for Kerry Patrick Valence who has been held in custody since his full time release date elapsed in August 2009.

The then Attorney General Cameron Dick went to the Supreme Court to get a detention order for Valence under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003. (more…)