AUSTRALIA Cases

Police investigating baby's death in Kensington

By Wayne Flower From: Herald Sun December 06, 2010 11:38AM

HOMICIDE squad detectives have been called in to investigate the death of a 10-month-old baby in Kensington, Melbourne.

The Maidstone girl was left with a babysitter at a Kensington residence about 8pm last Friday.

Her parents returned several hours later to collect the child and found her ill.

She was taken to the Royal Children's Hospital where she underwent surgery for head injuries but passed away last night.


Police have launched an investigation into the death.

Investigators have spoken with a number of people and conducted door knocks in the area.

Anyone with information in relation to death is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit www.crimestoppers.com.au



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UPDATE>>>>

A BABY who died after her parents collected her from a babysitter's house may have been shaken.

Homicide squad Detective Inspector John Potter said the 10-month-old girl had sustained head injuries, which could have resulted from being shaken, the Herald Sun reported.

"My understanding is babies' bones are quite brittle and receive injuries from things such as shaking. Not to say that’s the case here, but we have to keep an open mind,"he said.

"It’s still too early to speculate as to the cause of this particular death."

Police have interviewed the 27-year old babysitter, who has told them she was with her own three-year-old and 18-month-old children when the parents discovered their baby was unconscious on Friday.

Det-Insp Potter said the babysitter had been employed by the couple to watch their baby previously and had been looking after their baby while they attended a "social gathering".

When interviewed by police, the babysitter was unable to explain the child’s injuries.

Police said the parents, from suburban Maidstone, had dropped the girl off at the babysitter's home in nearby Kensington about 8pm and picked her up just after 11pm. They immediately rushed her to the Royal Children’s Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery.

It is understood the child died from an aneurysm.

Det Insp Potter said the babysitter had provided police with an account of her time with the baby, but had been unable to explain her injuries.

Read the full story at the Herald Sun.




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Court hears that trainer promised girl a horse in exchange for sex

By Tony Keim From: The Courier-Mail December 06, 2010 6:14PM A BRISBANE racehorse trainer enticed a 12-year-old stable hand into an almost 20-month sexual relationship with the promise of giving her a horse he was training, a jury has been told.

A District Court in Brisbane jury was today told the trainer also allegedly forced the girl into engaging in sexual acts with at least two other men who in return paid him cash for her services, The Courier-Mail reports.

Prosecutor Chris Minnery, in his opening to the jury, said the trainer took the girl, who "loved horses" and was then aged 12, on as a stable hand and offered to give her a large horse if she provided him with sexual favours.

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He allegedly told the girl: "You can have a horse ... if you (perform a lewd act)."

The trainer today pleaded not guilty to 29 charges mainly sexual offences including seven counts of rape, allegedly committed over almost two years.

The jury was told the alleged offences - committed when the girl was aged between 12 and 14 - also include one count of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child, two of unlawful carnal knowledge, and numerous counts of indecent treatment of a child.

Mr Minnery said the trainer used threats, violence and the promise of owning the horse to control or force the girl into participating in sex acts or performing them on him.

He said the girl did not have an ideal home life and was drawn to the stables due to her love of horses.

The jury was told the majority of the alleged offences occurred at the trainer's home, at the stables, or in his car.

Mr Minnery said the trainer asked the girl to do a "favour" for two male friends, who in return gave him money upon completion of sex acts.

He told the jury they would also see diaries kept by the girl, which include "heartbreaking" tales of offences allegedly committed on her by the trainer.

The jury was told the man admitted having sex with the girl during "pretext calls", recorded by police.

"Don't you want to be with me? I like you," Mr Minnery said the trainer told the girl during one call.

He said when the girl told the man she was "a bit young" for him, he replied: "Oh ----, that didn't matter when we were having sex together."

Barrister John Fraser, for the trainer, told the jury they should listen to all the evidence before considering the Crown case.

"There are two sides to every story and is important you don't jump to conclusions," Mr Fraser said.

The proposed two-week trial before Judge Marshall Irwin continues.



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Im not sure were to post this i hope here is ok.
Its upsetting to read that they can still access this from in prison and nothing can be done about it.

Evil killer Robert Arthur Selby Lower running jail sex ring

Wayne Flower From: Herald Sun December 06, 2010 12:00AM


UPDATE 9.40am: A PRISON source says staff can't stop technology smuggling after it was revealed that an evil child killer is running a depraved sex ring from inside one of Victoria's jails.
Robert Arthur Selby Lowe, who is serving a life sentence for the abduction, rape and murder of six-year-old Sheree Beasley, has recruited a gang of villains to smuggle child porn into Ararat prison.

A prison whistleblower told the Herald Sun Lowe had access to a steady supply of child porn, which he accessed on prison computers via smuggled USB sticks and memory cards.

A prison guard, who wished to remain anonymous, told heraldsun.com.au today that prison staff were powerless to stop the smuggling of USB and memory cards into prison.

"We can’t pick them up,’’ he said. "They’re hiding them internally.’’

The guard said Lowe had unhindered access to computers in the prison’s education department and was also involved in a church group.

"You can bet he’s not talking about God,’’ he said.

The whistleblower claims Lowe, aided by a notorious police shooter, is using a prison sex program run out of the prison's Children's Visit Centre to groom young prisoners to be paedophiles.

"He's been the chairman of these sessions," the prison source told the Herald Sun. "He's using the program to groom young, mentally ill inmates, and turning them into sick monsters like himself."

Sheree Beasley was riding her bike from local shops to her home in Rosebud on June 29, 1991, when Lowe lured her to a merciless death.

People Against Lenient Sentencing spokesman Steve Medcraft said Lowe should be immediately moved back to a tougher prison. "How you can have a child killer at Ararat is beyond me. They should be in a hardened cell at Port Phillip or Barwon," he said.

The S.H.A.R.E prison program - developed after repeated requests by inmates for a support program for gay prisoners - openly promotes sex between inmates, stating: "It's just jail sex, you're not gay (unless you kiss)". The depraved ring includes career rapists, including a man who raped a woman only moments after walking from court on sex offences.

"Most of these guys they're preying on shouldn't even be there, they're mentally ill," the source said. "These guys are taking them in, getting them in debt then moving them on to the USBs ... before long they've dumped their wives or girlfriends and are living with these sickos."

Corrections Victoria defended the program, explaining that it was "one of a number of programs aimed at supporting prisoners and assisting with their re-integration back into society".

The source, who now fears for his life, claims to have seen Lowe and other sex fiends watching child pornography on prison computers.

The contraband is allegedly smuggled into prison by visitors or picked up from secure locations while inmates are working outside prison walls.

Corrections Victoria said prison staff carried out regular searches of prisoners and their cells as well as regular audits of computer equipment used by prisoners to ensure they did not view contraband. It said prison staff supervised all program sessions.

flowerwa@heraldsun.com.au



Why do criminals, of this nature, have open access to computers? Also, it's real easy to disallow usb's on any windows machine so if you do that it will end the USB smuggling issue! Honestly guys, grow a brain and slap yourselves!

Two-year-old stabbed and killed

Sydney - Three people were found stabbed in a unit in Sydney, including the body of a two-year-old girl, who later died in hospital.

According to 9 News, a woman around the age of 30 was the first person seen wounded on the stairs of an apartment in Sydney, Australia.

Police were called to the area, called Canley Vale building, after finding out there had been a domestic dispute.
A father who was inside the unit with his two-year-old daughter, refused to open the door when police arrived, forcing officials to open the door themselves at around 8pm.

The toddler had a stab wound and was unconscious, whereas the 40-year-old man had been stabbed in his chest.

The little girl died later when she was taken to the Children's Hospital, and the father along with the woman were both taken to Liverpool Hospital. The woman had been stabbed on her stomach, as well as her shoulder, and is in an unknown condition, however the man is in critical condition.

More information is being sought from nearby neighbours and witnesses, and the Critical Incident Investigation Team is on the case at the moment.

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Parent paedophile ring arrest in WA
18:07 AEST Tue Jan 4 20113 hours 14 minutes ago

A West Australian father who allegedly abused his five-year-old daughter and indecently filmed her to share the images with an international parent paedophile ring has been charged.

Police say the 32-year-old man, who cannot be named, indecently assaulted his five-year-old daughter.

In a separate incident, he indecently recorded the girl to share the images with others he was communicating with in an online chat forum, police said.

He was arrested at his home after police found a computer with other child exploitation material, which they say he intended to share in the chat forum.

Police say the man was part of an international parent paedophile ring, which involved parents using social networking sites in the United States, Britain and Australia to exploit their children.

The man was charged with indecently recording a child who is a lineal relative, distributing child exploitation material, possessing child exploitation with the intent to distribute, and indecent dealings with a child who is a lineal relative.

An Australian judge sentenced three men and a woman to prison on Friday
for starving and abusing five children who suffered stunted growth and
open sores as a result.

Witnesses said the children — siblings
aged between four and seven at the time — had been forced to stand in
line, sometimes the entire day, with their hands on their heads and were
fed food scraps that were just enough to keep them alive.

They were left significantly underweight and had open sores on their legs, ulcers on their feet and were infected with scabies.

The
starvation occurred over four months in 2008 while the children shared a
house with 16 other children in Adelaide, South Australia.

Justice
Kevin Duggan said at the state Supreme Court that the abuse was “beyond
comprehension” and that Tania Staker, 36, led the cruelty out of
jealousy because her partner fathered the children with another woman.

Staker,
who had 12 children of her own, pleaded guilty on Friday to endangering
life and creating a risk of serious harm. She was sentenced to 10 years
in prison.

Staker’s partner, Luke Armistead, 38, and another
two men who shared the house were each sentenced to nine years in prison
for the same offenses.

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/world/judge-sends-4-australians-to-prison-for-child-abuse/422229

Skinny-dip trip for couple ends in toddler thrown 10m in the air from car Neil Keene From: The Daily Telegraph February 21, 2011 An 18 month old baby girl has been ejected from a vehicle when it crashed and rolled in Pheasants Nest. Police are continuing to investigate the accident. Toddler hurled through windscreen
Survived despite massive crash
THIS toddler hurtled through a car windscreen and 10m in the air after a crash southwest of Sydney yesterday.
The 13-month-old girl and her mother and another man were injured in a bizarre accident at Pheasants Nest after what was thought to be a skinny-dipping trip at about 2am yesterday.

The woman, 23, and 41-year-old man were discovered naked in the remains of the car by rescuers, while the child was thrown into a paddock near a notorious bend on Pheasants Nest Rd.

"It was quite bizarre. They were both starkers," a witness said.

Police said the silver Holden Barina lost control on a bend, rolled down an embankment and smashed into trees.

Another witness at the crash scene said the man and woman appeared to be heavily intoxicated.

It is understood the pair had been drinking earlier in the night at the nearby Bargo Hotel and may have left two other young children at home. A police spokesman said it wasn't yet clear who was driving but blood samples were taken from both adults to test for alcohol.

..The child remains in a stable condition in Westmead Children's Hospital. The woman had various limb injuries and was taken to Liverpool Hospital in a stable condition, while the man had more serious head and chest injuries and was flown to Westmead.



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