Tiny traces from videos and images drew detectives to a childcare worker accused of being Australia’s worst serial paedophile

Almost a decade later, in August 2022, the AFP made a breakthrough in the case while re-examining the images uncovered by Argos in 2014.

Guardian Australia understands detectives sought to identify bedsheets depicted in the background of one of the images and were eventually able to trace them to a childcare centre in suburban Brisbane.

  • Owangee1@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    This is huge news.

    “… the man, aged 45, had been charged with 1,623 child abuse offences against 91 girls, including 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10.”

      • doppelgangmember@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        These are the outliers where, personally, the death penalty is warranted if convicted. They do not need to be reproducing or influencing others on this. Good or bad.

        Some might even say oh they can be rehabilitated and help stop others from going down that road. Yeah right. We don’t know for sure what causes it, but we do pretty much know these thoughts don’t just go away. At the end of the day, this abuser gets to continue living while others are living with the abusers’ actions for life.

        One has to ask at what point do you draw the line and stop spending resources to preserve this legacy (even if it is cheaper to just house inmates).

          • MagicShel@programming.dev
            4·
            1 year ago

            Harsh and inhumane treatment is rarely the disincentive folks often think it is. It also provides an extreme incentive for folks to plead guilty to other offenses to avoid being charged for such a crime - which can be good if they are guilty of something and this allows for justice without further harming the victims, but also would lead to innocent people pleading guilty to avoid the possibility of being boiled alive. That kind of shit is used every day in the justice system (in America) to avoid people clogging up the courts by insisting on exercising their right to a fair trial.

            This is one of those problems which has a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong. Criminals must be treated with basic human dignity, because unless you are the almighty, you can’t possibly know exactly what a person “deserves.”

            I’m not trying to be harsh or anything. Feelings like this are absolutely understandable and natural. I have 5 kids and were someone to harm them I would demand to see every manner of cruelty inflicted upon that person. But our laws must strive to be better then that.