Ashley Paul Griffith pleads responsible to 307 offences in opposition to some 60 youngsters who had been in his care.
A former childcare employee in Australia has admitted to sexually abusing dozens of women in one of many worst paedophile instances within the nation’s historical past.
Ashley Paul Griffith on Monday pleaded responsible to 307 prices involving youngsters in his care, together with 28 counts of rape, 90 counts of indecent remedy and 67 counts of constructing youngster exploitation materials.
The offences had been carried out in opposition to some 60 youngsters, a lot of them beneath 12, at childcare centres in Australia and Italy over a span of greater than 19 years.
The decide’s affiliate on the District Court docket in Brisbane took greater than two hours to learn out the fees in opposition to Griffith, 46, who appeared impassive as he pleaded responsible to each cost, the Australian Broadcasting Company reported.
Griffith was arrested in 2022 and initially charged with a number of youngster exploitation materials offences.
Prosecutors later charged the Gold Coast, Queensland man with greater than 1,600 offences in opposition to 91 ladies, however most of these prices had been dropped earlier than Monday’s listening to.
New South Wales state police Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald final yr described the case as “one of the crucial horrific instances of alleged youngster abuse our detectives have seen”.
Police stated that they had been trying to find Griffith since discovering a set of kid exploitation pictures and movies circulating on the darkish internet in 2014.
Griffith, who is because of be sentenced at a later date, didn’t search bail and was returned to custody after his arraignment.