Griffith committed criminal activity from 2007 to 2022, when he worked in kindergartens in Brisbane, Sydney and Pisa, Italy. He abused children directly at the workplace, filming his actions on his cell phone and video cameras. The Australian Federal Police arrested him in October 2022. On Friday, November 29, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and sexually abusing almost 70 girls.
Judge Paul Smith said in the Brisbane District Court on Friday that Griffith suffered from a pedophile disorder and was at high risk of reoffending. He ordered him to prison without the possibility of parole for at least 27 years. Forty-seven-year-old Griffith will not be able to apply for release until at least 2049.
Griffith pleaded guilty in court in September to 307 offences, including 190 counts of unlawful and indecent treatment of children and 28 counts of rape. His victims were aged from one year to seven years. It took over two hours just to read all the charges against him in the Queensland District Court. Judge Smith described the scale and nature of the crimes as perverse.
“I will never know what it would be like to grow up without fear of people,” Australian The Guardian quotes a woman who described her childhood trauma in court. The abuse took place when she was three and four years old. A young woman who was abused by Griffith more than fifty times said in court that she grew up with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. She started self-harming at the age of 12 and had panic attacks at school.
In addition to the aforementioned charges, Griffith also pleaded guilty to 71 counts of acquiring child abuse materials, one count of distributing these materials, and also to possessing them. Investigators found thousands of photos and videos of his abuse that he took and uploaded to the dark web. A total of 60 victims of these acts were named in court, but their identities cannot be disclosed under Australian law.
Although faces were cut out of the footage, investigators were able to track down that it was Griffith. In the background of some of the videos, a unique set of sheets could be seen, which was sold to child care centers throughout Queensland, reports the BBC with reference to investigators.
Griffith was first arrested in August 2022 by the Australian Federal Police and charged a year later with more than 1,600 sexual offenses against children. Most of them were eventually withdrawn. The families of the victims called on the court to investigate the childcare centers and the system in which Griffith remained undetected for so long.
What is the dark web?
The dark web is an inaccessible part of the Internet that can only be accessed with specialized software – via the TOR platform.
For many years, the Internet black market has been used for ordering hacker attacks, obtaining malicious codes, but also, for example, for trading weapons, drugs or just stolen data.
Australian pedophile confessed to 307 crimes. He worked in a kindergarten for fifteen years
The world
