Former childcare worker charged with 1,623 sexual abuse offences against 91 children in Australia and overseas - eviltoast

Australian federal police allege young girls, primarily in Brisbane and Sydney, were abused and raped over a 15-year period

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    Police say they became aware of the 45-year-old Gold Coast childcare worker’s alleged offending after recently identifying video discovered on the dark web in 2014.

    He was arrested in August 2022, with police then allegedly discovering a hard drive filled with child abuse material of young girls while executing warrants at his home and other addresses.

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    Holy shit man. I don’t know what it takes for the death penalty in Australia, but this would be a strong contender in my opinion.

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        Well, Australia was the death penalty back in the day. Damn convicts just kept on surviving.

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          First of all, this doesn’t just happen in Australia, and there are plenty of examples of the same thing happening literally everywhere.

          Second, child rapists generally get caught when a child finally tells an adult who believes them and reports it. After that, the flood gates usually open and more come forward. If you institute the death penalty for rape at all, but especially rape of a child, then the rapist has no reason (beyond continued access) to keep the kid alive after they’ve abused them.