Part 3: Eyes Wide Open....Victorian Pedophile Network....NSW Pedophile Network

Just a ton of emotions reading these two chapters. Hard not to feel anger. So many people knowing and nothing getting done.Corrupt police including in the first  case a house OWNED by the Victoria Police, where a great deal of the perversion was done to children. It does not get any better in the second case. Even though the allegations involve an Education Board, the way the NSW police handle the allegations leave Fiona in the end asking how deep the Network goes in the NSW....She knows the answer and so does the reader...

Eyes Wide Open

By Fiona Barnett

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Victorian Pedophile Network

In 2004, Reina Michaelson (PhD psychologist, 2005 Young Australian of the Year for Community Service) called for a Royal Commission into allegations of a Victorian pedophile network involving Rushworth state high school and the Education Department, DOCS (child protection),  a  Mornington Peninsula  childcare  centre,  Liberal  Party  Premiere Jeff  Kennett, Victorian Police, Network 10, and TV star Bert Newton. The following newspaper articles refer to this operation:

POLICE FILES ON SEX ABUSE ‘VANISHED’
Gary Hughes, The Age, 19 April 2004.

Police files on a suspect in claimed sexual abuse by men dressed as police are said to have ‘disappeared.’ A deputy principal who reported a student’s claim of the abuse says detectives later told him that Victoria Police computer files on one of the alleged pedophiles were tampered with. He was also told his initial report to the Department of Human Services under the mandatory reporting system disappeared.

The 13-year-old boy told staff at the school he had been repeatedly sexually abused by a number of men on the Mornington Peninsula. He said some of the men wore police uniforms and warned him that they would know if he reported the abuse because they were  policemen.  The  boy  had  also been  used  to  produce  child  pornography later published overseas.

The deputy principal said it was clear from a detailed 12-page statement made by the boy that the abuse was conducted by an organised and ‘well-connected’ pedophile ring.

No charges were laid because police said the boy had been ‘too well groomed’ by the pedophiles and it was doubtful he would testify in court.

The  deputy  principal  contacted  The  Age  after  it revealed  this  month  that  the Ombudsman was investigating the alleged mishandling of a number of child sexual abuse cases by Victoria Police. The Age advised him to contact the Ombudsman, which he has since done.

One case being reviewed by the Ombudsman involves children at a child-care centre in Mornington. Investigators have been told that a house where the alleged abuse took place possibly belonged to a policeman and that a videotape existed of children from the centre being abused by men dressed as police.

The deputy principal from the college in Melbourne’s outer east has asked that neither he nor the college be named to protect the identity of the abused boy. The deputy principal, who has since become principal of another school, lodged an initial report with what was then Community Services Victoria in July 1995. He telephoned about two weeks later and was told the report was being investigated. The deputy  principal said it was clear from a statement made by the boy that the abuse was conducted by an organised pedophile ring.

After  the  boy  made  more  detailed  disclosures and  began  displaying  disturbing behaviour, the school lodged a second mandatory report in December 1995 through the Education Department’s regional office. The complaint was taken ‘very seriously’ and police were called. The deputy principal said police told him there was no record of the original report to community services or his follow-up phone call. A senior child protection manager told him it was not the first time reports had disappeared.

Detectives from a community policing unit said the main alleged offender in the ring was well known to police, the deputy principal said. But the police said a previous case against him had been abandoned after information on police files had disappeared. ‘I started to pinch myself and think is this real or not? It seemed quite bizarre and I was very frustrated…’ he said.

After police dropped the investigation in 1996 the boy ‘totally clammed up’ and staff at the school did not know whether the abuse continued. A Victoria Police spokesman said  the  original  allegation  had been  investigated,  including  a  search of  the main suspect’s home that found no incriminating evidence. The boy involved had refused to repeat to police the disclosures he had earlier made to school staff. The spokesman said he was not aware that files had disappeared.

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CALL FOR PROBE INTO POLICE INVESTIGATION
Matt Doran, Mornington Peninsula Leader, 4 May 2004.

AT 7am on an ordinary morning in the early 1990s, police rapped on the door of a house in Mt Martha, waiting to tell a mother and a father their two toddlers were believed to have been victims of pedophilia. They did it subtly, of course, by asking the parents to see if their children had ever heard of ‘red Kenny’ or ‘Daddy Kenny.’

A number of children from a Mornington childcare centre had earlier told the police these were nicknames used by men who had sexually abused them. ‘I will never forget the look on my daughter’s face when she heard those names. She immediately ran behind her mother saying ‘save me mummy, save me,’ said John (not his real name). John was later told by his eldest daughter that the same men had held her underwater and bent her little finger backwards if she didn’t do as she was told. John  knew in his heart then that the bruises on his youngest daughters’ cheek had not been caused by a ‘playground accident.’ His children, ‘two little heroes,’ were among at least 16 others abused at the Mornington Child Care Centre and Nursery School in the 1990s.

Children told police and their parents they were taken from the centre in a van to a house in Mornington where they were sexually and physically abused by a group of adults. 

Some described being abused by adults wearing ‘funny clothes’ including  police uniforms,clown suits and ‘black capes with tails.’

The centre was deregistered after a Department of Human Services inquiry found that the centre’s owners, Norman and Alison Shulver, had ‘permitted the abuse to occur or were  involved  in  that abuse.’ No  police  charges  were  laid,  but  in  1994  the Crimes Compensation Tribunal awarded damages of up to $20,000 to more than 30 applicants affected by the alleged abuse.

Now a decade later, Victoria’s Ombudsman is due to release a report on the way police handled their investigation. But that does not comfort John or his eldest daughter, now 16, who are still traumatised. ‘My eldest daughter still needs counselling and is afraid to sleep by herself. She is on antidepressants and has no friends,’ John said. ‘She believes she was the victim of organised pedophilia and she still fears for her life. ‘It is too late for justice for my family. Justice cannot repair my marriage or make up for the trauma my daughter has suffered. But there needs to be justice for the community, so that people’s faith in the system can be restored.’

Psychologist Dr Reina Michaelson, who is representing survivors of abuse throughout Victoria, helped  instigate  the  Ombudsman’s  investigation in 2002.  She  first  raised concerns with Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon in 2001, about the way the original police  investigation  was  conducted after  a  ‘well-hidden’  file  containing allegations linking police to child sex offences was stolen from her home. But now Dr Michaelson has lost faith in the Ombudsman’s internal investigation.

Documents obtained by the Leader show that in April last year an Ethical Standards Department officer was removed from the investigation for ‘incompetence’ after he failed to pass on vital information from two witnesses. One witness claimed that a house used by pedophiles in Mornington belonged to a policeman. The other witness gave information about the existence of a video tape that showed a number of men dressed in police uniforms abusing children. The investigator said he could not recall talking about a video with the witness, but a check of telephone records showed he did have such a conversation.

‘These children were the victims of a highly organised and protected pedophile group that continues to operate throughout Victoria,’ Dr Michaelson said. ‘While this type of corruption  continues,  these children  don’t  have  a  hope  of  getting  justice. ‘They desperately want to present their testimonies and evidence, but they need to be given a forum where they can do this in safety and where the investigative process is truly independent.

Doctor’s Years of Dedication
Dr Reina Michaelson, who sparked the Ombudsman's current investigation, is a high achiever  in  the world  of  child  psychology.  The  33-year-old completed  her  PhD  in psychology  at  Victoria University  in  2001.  Her  thesis,  which was  awarded  the  vice-chancellor's medal for excellence in research, focused on ways to prevent child sexual abuse.  Dr  Michaelson  was  Young  Australian  of  the  Year  (for  community  service)  in 2001.

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MPs AND POLICE ‘IN CHILD SEX NETWORK’
Gosia Kaszubska, The Australian, 9 July 2004.

A SOPHISTICATED pedophile network involving former politicians and police has beenoperating in Victoria since the 70s, anti-child-abuse campaigners claimed yesterday. Reina   Michaelson,   head   of the   Child   Sexual  Abuse   Prevention   Program, and Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston said victims had told them of an organised child pornography and prostitution  network  with  links  to  former  MPs and  senior  police officers.

The claims a pedophile ring was operating under the protection of police came after the Victorian Ombudsman released a damning report on the conduct of four child sex abuse investigations, leading to a review of the operations of the sexual crimes squad. Two experienced members of the squad will be investigated over their role in the abuse cases, which are being reopened.

The  inquiry  found  the  officers  failed  to adequately  examine  several  child abuse allegations and concluded they may have lied under oath to investigators from the Ombudsman’s  office.  

The Ombudsman  found  officers  from  the  squad told the Education  Department  a  teacher  had beencleared  of abuse allegations, despite conducting no investigation into the claims.

In a separate case, a senior detective blamed a 12-year-old girl for encouraging a man who had allegedly abused her, and another officer described the victim as ‘a little slut.’

The  Ombudsman’s  inquiry  followed  complaints from  Dr  Michaelson,  who  gave  a dossier  of  child abuse  cases  she  claimed  had  been  mishandled to  police  Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon in late 2001. . .

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[Bert Newton] TV MAN LINKED TO SEX CASE INQUIRY
The Age, 16 Nov 2004.

A sudden decision by Victoria Police to drop a rape investigation involving a prominent television industry figure is likely to be examined as part of a special inquiry by the state Ombudsman into how authorities handle sexual assault cases.

Using his new powers, the Ombudsman will examine how government agencies and the police investigate allegations of sexual assault and how victims are treated. The wide-ranging inquiry will include the Department of Education and the Department of Human Services, which is responsible for child protection.

One of the cases likely to be examined is the recent decision by Victoria Police to drop an  investigation into  sexual  assault  allegations  against  the prominent  Victorian television  industry  figure.  The alleged  victim  told  police  in  March  that  he was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted as a teenager by the male television executive in the 1980s.

Deputy Ombudsman John Taylor told The Age a special unit began initial work on the inquiry several weeks ago and government agencies had been formally notified.

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The alleged victim of the television figure lodged a formal complaint last week with the  Ombudsman and  Victoria  Police  Chief  Commissioner  Christine Nixon  about  the decision to drop the investigation. The Ombudsman had already decided to hold the special inquiry before the complaint was received. Ms Nixon has referred the complaint to the police Ethical Standards Department.

The Ombudsman has been told that police decided to drop the case, despite the Office of  Public Prosecutions  reviewing  the  evidence  just  weeks earlier  and  indicating  the investigation  should proceed  and  charges  could  be  laid.  In his  complaint  to  the Ombudsman,  the  alleged victim  said  that  police  ignored potentially  corroborativeevidence, failed to interview witnesses, only spoke to some other witnesses over the telephone and pressured him into writing a letter exonerating a second offender just a week before dropping the case.

Mr Taylor said the decision to hold the special inquiry was the result of the number of complaints received over the past 12 months about the way sexual abuse allegations had been handled by government agencies and the police.‘Inevitably the focus has been as the result of some specific complaints, but we are looking more broadly than just a few complaints,’ he said.

The new inquiry comes after an Ombudsman's investigation into police mishandling of child sexual abuse cases was scathing in its criticism of Victoria Police in July. Police reopened four cases after the Ombudsman found investigations had been bungled. The Age revealed at the time that, in one of the cases, children had remained at risk in a country town after police inadequately investigated an alleged pedophile in 1999.

The two-year investigation by the Ombudsman was also highly critical of the attitudes of investigating officers. One senior sexual crimes squad detective blamed a 12-year- old  schoolgirl  for  leading  on  a 63-year-old  man  who  allegedly  abused  her. Another police officer told investigators the same girl was a ‘slut,’ despite admitting she had most likely been sexually abused.

The  sexual  crimes  squad  was  also  found  to have  failed  to  investigate allegations against a teacher, but told the Education Department that investigations had been carried out and the teacher cleared.

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CULT FIGHTS CLAIMS OF CHILD SACRIFICE
Barney Zwarts, The Age, 22 November 2006.

An anti-child-sex campaigner accused an occult religious group of hosting parties at which  naked children  acted  as  waiters  and  at  which  members had  sex  with  and murdered  children,  a  tribunal was  told  yesterday. The  obscure  group  Ordo Templi Orientis  (OTO)  claims  Dr  Reina  Michaelson and  the  Child  Sexual  Abuse  Prevention Program described it in a website article as a satanic cult that sacrificed children and ate their organs and blood. It has complained under Victoria’s religious hatred law that Dr Michaelson and her organisation vilified OTO members, causing revulsion, ridicule, hatred and contempt.

According to OTO’s statement of complaint, Dr Michaelson said it was not a religion but a child pornography and pedophile ring, that its members practised trauma-based mind   control,   sexual abuse   and   satanic  rituals   to   discourage   its victims   from complaining to the authorities, and that it condoned kidnapping street children and babies  and children from orphanages for sex and sacrifice in religious rituals.

The case began at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal yesterday but was adjourned to today to allow a last-ditch attempt to settle out of court. The article, still accessible  on  a  website  run from  NSW,  suggests  senior  politicians and television celebrities  are  part  of  a  top-level pedophile  ring  and  have  been  protected  by some police. It  says  some  members  of  the  ring pretended  to  support  Dr  Michaelson’s campaign and became board members of her group to subvert it from within. . .

OTO  members  follow  a  religion  known  as Thelema,  founded  by  occultist  Aleister Crowley.

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Dr Reina Michaelson’s Testimony
The following document was posted by David Icke and on various websites including Above Top Secret. The public reinserted some of the names that Reina Michaelson disguised.

Dr Michaelson’s Statement:
The  following  is  a  summary  of  events  that detail the  infiltration  of a  high-profile, powerful group of child sex offenders into my child abuse prevention organisation. What was uncovered  as  a result  of  this  infiltration  was  the  existence  of a  child  pornography  and pedophile ring that is operating in Australia, under the protection of senior-ranking members of Victoria Police.

The members of the network include senior management and executives from a major television network,  media  celebrities,  high-ranking politicians,  police  officers  in  charge  of pedophile and child pornography investigations, senior management representatives from the Department of Education, directors of ‘child-focused’ service clubs, wealthy businessmen, and others.

I  have  tried  to  keep  the  account  as  brief  as possible  while  including  all  relevant information. The description covers events from 1995 until the time of this writing (2005). Names have been changed.

Victorian Department of Education Protects Rushmore Pedophile Teacher

In 1995, I started running Australia's first child sexual abuse prevention program in schools (CSAPP, Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program). This school-based program teaches children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse and what to do if someone tries to sexually  abuse  them.  The program  also  teaches  adults  how  they  can  best protect  children under their care from sexual abuse.

My assistant and I were at Rushworth high school in the northern region working with Year 9 boys. We received a note written anonymously by one of the boys asking, ‘What do you do if you get raped by a teacher and no one will believe you? What happens if you get raped and you enjoy it?’

Later during that day, we were asked exactly the same question by a boy who was flushed red with embarrassment. I replied, ‘Talk to the Student Welfare Coordinator,’ to which he replied, ‘What if he is the one who won't believe you?’ I emphasized that it is important to keep telling until someone believes you.

During  the  day  my  assistant  and  I  noticed  the strange  behaviour  of  a  Rushworth teacher. Later that afternoon I learnt that the car I had been driving had been rammed in the school's carpark. Witnesses reported that the car had been rammed deliberately by a man who then drove off very quickly.

The local police were called and ran a licence check on the car and discovered that the number plate was fake. They then took photos of the crime scene using the school's camera. Later, when it was revealed that a teacher was under suspicion of sexually abusing the children at the school and then organising the ramming of my car to intimidate me, the photos went
‘missing,’ and no further action was taken.

The Rushworth teacher was the only person at the school who knew my car, as he had taken it upon himself to show me to my car to give me directions to the shops during a break in classes.

It  was  organised  that  the  boys  in  Year  9  would be  interviewed  in  order  to  find  the victims and give them appropriate support. Three people (including myself, my assistant and a counsellor from a sexual assault centre) were responsible for conducting the interviews. At the completion of the interviews, there were concerns for approximately 12 of the boys.

These  concerns  related  specifically  to  sexual assault  by  a  teacher  at the  school. However, by this stage (over a week had passed since the initial program) it was clear that the boys  had  been threatened.  For  example,  when  I  interviewed  the boy  who  had  asked  the questions about sexual abuse by a teacher and not being believed, he huddled into a fetal position, started crying, and said he could not tell me what happened. When I asked him why he couldn't tell me, he replied that he had been threatened with his life. His best friend told me he would never tell what had happened.

Sometime after this, we organised a theatre company performance for the students (on the topic of sexual abuse). While the children were seated and waiting for the play to begin, the offending teacher made an unscheduled visit to the hall. He  proceeded to stand in front of each of the boys we had identified as potential victims and stare them down. The boys,who had been happy and laughing in the excitement of waiting for the play to begin, went grey with fear. Finally, I stood in front of the pedophile teacher so that he could not intimidate the boys any further.

I  was  then  told  no  further  action  would  be taken  as  the  boys  had  not  named  the offender.

Program Infiltrated
I was the recipient of a very prestigious national award (Young Australian of the Year for Community Service). One of the judges (’RS’) was a well-connected government official, and another was Robert Osmotherly, a Network 10 TV executive.

Network 10 General Manager
After winning this award, Robert Osmotherly approached me  and said that he  had never heard of this terrible crime (child sexual abuse) before meeting me. He said wanted to help me get my program into every school in Victoria within five years and said he had the money and the connections to do this. He said he would raise half a million dollars in 6 weeks,and have it matched within 6 months. He said that he and RS would set my program up as an independent organisation and that they would establish a Board of Management consisting of all of their powerful and influential friends. RS would become President of the organisation and Robert Osmotherly Vice-President.

I  agreed  to  Robert  Osmotherly’s  proposal  as  it sounded  as  if  he  would  enable  the program to receive substantial funding and therefore be able to reach many more children within Victoria, and across Australia. I did not consider for a second that Robert Osmotherly and RS could have been deceiving me in order to get control of, and ultimately, to destroy the child sexual abuse prevention program that I had developed.

The Board members and supporters that they brought to the organisation were very powerful  and from  the  highest  echelons  of  society.  These included  the Editor-in  Chief  of  a major Australian newspaper, the former head of a child-focussed service club, the head of the largest agricultural society in Victoria, the partner from a well-known law firm, an extremely wealthy  businessman  and former  Network  10  board  member,  the  head of  a  well-known accounting firm, the head of a successful advertising company, and others.

Despite having such wealth and powerful connections, in the two-year period that they servedon the Board they organised only one donation of $25,000. The board members subsequently despised the donor and ostracised him from their community (which at the time I thought was incredibly ungrateful!). This is compared with over $200,000 my family and I raised doing the fundraising ourselves in the same time period!

Furthermore, my efforts to secure funding were being actively sabotaged. For example, after an interview on the Channel 9 'Today' show (not Network 10), I was contacted by a well-known multi-national company who said that they would like to fund my program. This well-known company was located in Sydney, and as Robert Osmotherly frequently went to Sydney, I asked if he would have a meeting with them on behalf of our organisation. He agreed.

However, when he returned from the meeting, he said for me not to have much hope and not to contact them for six months while they sorted out a new tax issue. I found this very odd, as they had been so keen to fund the organisation when I had spoken to them. I phoned the woman whom I had spoken to, and she confirmed my suspicions. She had been at the meeting  and  Robert  Osmotherly  had told  the  company  not  to  bother  funding  us,  as ‘the organisation won't be around in six months.’ Needless to say, we did not receive the funding.

During this time period, I was without any income for four months. Many other people would have quit and sought other employment; however, I believed passionately in my cause and did not give up, much to the chagrin of Robert Osmotherly. On one occasion he said to me, ‘You have given so much to this cause in your life, why don't you just give up? You have achieved more good in your short life than many do in a long life-time. Why don't you retire down in the country (I was 28 years old). Go on, just give up.’ When I replied that I would never give up, he stormed away! I was confused by this behaviour, but as I trusted him, I did not think too much more about it at the time.

The Board members achieved one other ‘in-kind’ donation. It was the use of a Honda CRV vehicle. I appreciated the use of the vehicle while I had it (approximately 18 months). However, I later discovered that the head of the company that donated it, a close friend of RS,   had just been convicted of child sex offences. These offences included the production of child pornography.

RS organised a meeting with TF, the CEO of a major charitable trust and personal friend of his and other members of the Board. At that meeting I was amazed when TF asked me, ‘Do you ever think that by preventing children from having sexual relationships with adults that you are actually HARMING them?’

I replied by citing the research that strongly indicates adult-child sexual relationships are harmful to children, but he had switched his mind off to my argument. He then stated that in 100 years or so it will be revealed that such relationships are not harmful but that what I was doing was harmful to children. I was certainly taken aback and RS said, ‘Don't worry, TF just thinks on a very high intellectual plane. High above yours.’ Needless to say, we didn't get funding from RS's very good friend after all.

Meeting with Victorian Premiere Jeff Kennett
After winning the award, I had a meeting with a very powerful state politician, Jeff Kennett. At that time, Jeff Kennett was the most powerful person in the state. As well as being politically powerful he also had key business interests, including in the media. When I was first introduced to him, he was staring at me quite sleazily. After he asked what work I do, and my response ‘child abuse prevention,’ he would not make eye contact at all and sought to exclude me from the meeting in a very bullying manner.

It was well-known that Jeff Kennett was a serious domestic violence offender, and that his wife was frequently being admitted to shelters in secret. However, given the power and status of Mr Kennett the issue was never raised in the mainstream media.

I was later to be informed by a very reliable and trusted source from the child welfare field that there is a file containing serious child sex offences (against boys) by Jeff Kennett, but  because  of  his enormous  power  in  Victoria,  the  police  would not  act  on  it.  I  also discovered  from  a  former sex  worker  that Jeff  Kennett  frequently  paid  St  Kilda  boy  sex workers for sex, and that one of these boys ‘talked too much to the wrong people and ended up dead with an 'accidental' heroin overdose.’

It  was  also  alleged  that Jeff  Kennett  intentionally abused  the  boys  in  unusual situations (for example, in a helicopter) so that if it ever got out, the boys' testimonies would seem unbelievable. This of, course, is exactly the same strategy used by offenders in the US child-care  centre  cases. Interestingly,  Jeff  Kennett  has recently  commissioned  a  statue  of himself - as a gargoyle [on St Patrick's Cathedral 92].

Later I met with another politician (from the same Liberal Party) who told me that ‘Jeff Kennett is really into that (child sex abuse).’ This same politician told me that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the police were ‘getting too close to the truth, too close to people in high  positions  of  power  who  are  also pedophiles,’  and  so  the  sex  crimes  squad’s child exploitation unit had been established to investigate organised pedophilia and ensure it was shut down. (Soon after Detective Senior Sergeant Chris O’Connor was put in charge of the child exploitation unit and the sexual crimes squad, to investigate these offences and ensure that the truth never got out and that this high-ranking network of offenders would never get caught).


Network 10 Produces Pornography
One  day  I  was  working  on  a  computer  at Network  10.  As  I  was  working, Robert Osmotherly approached my computer and put a floppy disk in the machine. He said, ‘Look at this’ and proceeded to bring up images of pornography involving humans and Sesame Street characters. I was very embarrassed and did not know how to react.

I asked, ‘Where did you get that?’ and he replied, ‘Oh, someone put it together here,’ indicating  that Network  10  was  producing  pornography.  I  was later  to  discover  that Network  10  is  also producing  child  pornography  and  is,  in  fact, a  cult-owned  and  run television  station.  I  was also  later  to  discover  that  Robert  Osmotherly  is a  passionate member of a cult.

Robert Osmotherly introduces me to Mr. Television
After winning the above mentioned award, I was invited to go on one of the morning television shows on Network 10. (This was before my association with Robert Osmotherly. Ironically, after my association with Robert Osmotherly, Network 10 did not do any promotion of  my  work  at  all!)  It  is  hosted  by one  of  the  most  famous  and  longest  serving television personalities in Australia, Bert Newton.

I  was  asked  to  prepare  a  number  of  questions that Bert  Newton  would  ask  me.  I prepared very straight-forward questions that focused on the work, so I was quite shocked when Bert Newton glared at me and said, ‘Are you doing this because it happened to you?’ I  was  also  stunned  when  he refused  to  allow  the  phone  number  of my organisation  to  be presented on the air for donations.

When I later became closely associated with Network 10 Robert Osmotherly would often say to me ‘You know, Bert Newton really likes you. He really likes you!’ This surprised me because my experience of Bert Newton had been the exact opposite of that. (Interestingly, Robert  Osmotherly  also frequently  said  to  me,  ‘Jeff  Kennett  really  likes me  since  I  started helping you. He has me sit next to him at all of the formal functions we attend now.’ This was indeed true, Jeff Kennett, Robert Osmotherly and ‘RS’ were all the best of friends.)

After my experience with Network 10, I subsequently discovered that in the late 1980's Bert Newton was frozen out of the television industry due to allegations of his involvement in the production of child pornography. Although his alleged involvement in this activity was well-publicised at the time, he was never charged and about a year later he  joined Network 10.

Since  then  he  has  continued  to  play  a significant  role  in  the  production  of child pornography in Australia. One contact who works on the set of the morning program hosted by Bert Newton finds the work to be very distressing as other on-air talent are very open about their pedophilia. This contact is disgusted, as his sister is a victim of child sex offences, however  he  does  not want  to  publicly  disclose  the  information  as he  will  lose  his  job.  In addition to the above, I am now in contact with a boy who was paid $2000 a night to have sex with Bert Newton, from the ages of 15 - 18 years.

Introduction to the Pedophile Police Unit
There is a specialised police unit in Victoria that, since the early 1990's, is responsible for investigating  all  child  sex  offences  involving multiple-victims,  offences  committed  by teachers, as well as child pornography offences [the Child Exploitation Unit within the Sexual Crimes Squad]. I had a meeting with the head of this unit, Detective Senior Sergeant Chris O’Connor, and was very surprised when the first thing he said to me was ‘Does Jeff Kennett know about your program? Jeff Kennett should know about your program.’ I found this a very odd thing for him to say as an opening statement, and especially so, given the information known about Jeff Kennett's alleged sexual abuse of boys. I thought it impossible for this police officer not to know of these things, given his specialist role.

Relationship between Chris O’Connor and network 10 Robert Osmotherly

I subsequently became aware of the ‘unusual’ relationship between Chris O’Connor (police) and Robert Osmotherly (Network 10). I invited Chris O’Connor to do a presentation for the board members. RS was ‘so impressed’ by Chris O’Connor that he wanted to invite him onto  the  Board  of Management  (along  with  all  the  other pedophile  members).  I  later discovered that Chris O’Connor and Robert Osmotherly, although pretending not to know each other    at the Board meeting, have a very cosy relationship indeed.

Specifically, a couple of years ago, a senior staff member at Network 10 was charged with procuring children for prostitution. At the time, the wife of a detective working in Chris O’Connor's unit (Pam Cullen) received a very sudden and significant promotion to become Robert  Osmotherly 's Personal Assistant.  It  was  a  clear  conflict  of  interest  and deeply comprising to the investigation.

Pam Cullen 's husband should not have been involved in investigating Network 10 staff for  their involvement  in  procuring  children  for  prostitution or  any  other  child  sex  offences connected to Network 10. However, with the appointment of the detective's wife to Personal Assistant of the General Manager of Network 10, it was guaranteed that no other information pertaining to Network 10's illegal activities involving sex offences against children would be pursued by Chris O’Connor or his unit. And Pam Cullen enjoyed her unexpected and incredibly well-paid, new position at Network 10.

Chris O’Connor called in to investigate the Rushworth teacher and other offences
In 1999 fresh allegations were made against the Rushworth pedophile teacher. This time, teenage girls reported the Rushworth pedophile teacher approaches students and asks them  to  meet  him after  school  to  meet  'Winston  the  Baseball Bat'.  They  indicated  that 'Winston' was the teacher’s penis. They reported that other students were very affected by this behaviour, and some had taken to writing warnings to each-other on the desks, such as ‘If the teacher asks you to meet Winston, don't do it – it’s his dick!!’

At  last,  the  Rushworth  pedophile  teacher  had been  named  and  the  victims  were prepared to come forward. The teacher admitted to these offences and received 5 sessions of counselling. I then discovered the teacher had conveniently taken up a temporary position in a    country school (like a priest being moved from parish to parish when things get too hot). 

The principal at the original school had not told the new school the circumstances surrounding his transfer and had instead said, ‘Poor teacher, he's had a difficult time lately.’ I later discovered that this Principal was an expert liar and had gone over and above the call of duty in protecting this pedophile teacher.

At this new country high school it was not long before further allegations of child abuse by  the  Rushworth teacher  came  out.  Incidents  of  verbal  abuse, such  as  calling  students ‘fucking stupid’ were revealed, as well as physical assaults, such as dragging students out of the classroom and throwing them on the floor. In another physical assault, the Rushworth pedophile teacher grabbed the 12-year-old boy by the neck and held him by his neck against a wall. The teacher admitted to the latter assault, wrote a letter of apology and provided financial compensation for the loss of the necklace.

With the pedophile teacher being named and various offences being admitted to, I reported his behaviour for criminal investigation to Chris O’Connor's sex crimes unit. It also provided the opportunity for the 1995 offences to be re-investigated. However, Chris O’Connor interviewed only two of the 12 boys on the list from 1995 and reported to me that as the first two boys did not disclose anything, the others would not be interviewed.

In relation to the offences against the teenage girls, Chris O’Connor said that, at 15 years of age, the girls were ‘too young,’ and he did not want to distress the girls' families by bringing up the topic of child sexual abuse. Therefore, these offences by the pedophile teacher would not be investigated either. I could not believe what I was hearing! Child sex offences are offences  because  they happen  against  children!  And  at  15,  the victims were  hardly  at  the young end of the age-spectrum! It was a completely nonsensical reason for not investigating the pedophile.

As for the physical assaults, Chris O’Connor said that he was not responsible for such investigations, so those cases would not be pursued either. He said, ‘You do understand, don't you!’ (it was not a question) and I replied that I did not. However, Chris O’Connor was not prepared to discuss the situation amicably and the pedophile teacher evaded investigation, by both the police in the unit established to investigate such offences, and by the Department of Education.

Further Dealings with Chris O’Connor’s Child Exploitation Unit

Whilst at the country school, disclosures of child sexual abuse by other offenders were made by many children. The disclosures centred on two offenders in the town. The specialised Child Exploitation Unit arrived to ‘investigate.’ However, the main victim of the sexual abuse, Sammy, a 12-year-old girl, did not attend school that day.

Sammy did arrive after school that day on her bike, and her face was visibly disfigured.I was told by her best friend that she had been bashed, but her friend would not tell me who did this to Sammy. Her smashed-in face was warning enough for all of the children. The police later went to her house, where she fainted upon seeing them. She did not disclose any abuse at all. Despite the fact that her face was visibly disfigured and swollen from a recent assault, the police did not pursue the matter further.

The specialised Child Exploitation Unit totally destroyed any chance of the truth being revealed and the victims receiving the justice they deserved. For example, they left children waiting all day to be interviewed and did not end up interviewing many of them, including witnesses to attempted child-rapes.

The Child Exploitation Unit did interview one 12-year-old victim (‘Lucy’) and totally intimidated her. When the girl indicated that the police didn't believe her the first time she told them what had happened to her, one police officer lent right over the top of her, pointed his finger directly in her face and hissed ‘Don't say that! You don't know that!’ I was shaking, and I was an adult sitting next to the girl! As she walked out of the interview room, the police officer said in voice loud enough for the girl to hear, ‘We have serious concerns about the truth of what this girl is saying.’

It had the desired effect, Lucy burst into tears and said, ‘The police don't believe me. I don't want to keep going.’ The Welfare Co-ordinator, who was also in the room during the interview,  and  who  is  also an  experienced  sexual  assault  counsellor  and child  protection officer,  said  to  me, ‘That  wasn't an  interview.  That  was  designed  to  stop  a  child from talking.’

The  Child  Exploitation  Unit  did  not  pursue  the case  any  further  on  the  following grounds: No-one would believe Sammy if she disclosed the abuse in the future, as she hadn't disclosed the first time. (The fact that she had been bashed would not be seen as relevant to her hesitancy to disclose?!) Lucy had led all the children on (to make up ‘stories’ of sexual abuse for fun, even though the children were visibly traumatised). In relation to the sexual abuse of a boy, they said, ‘men try to touch other men's penises after football matches all the time’ so it was not worthy of pursuing.

And finally, the Child Exploitation Unit claimed that there was not enough evidence this is despite the fact that there were witnesses to the attempted rapes of the children, and the  testimonies  of  many victims  provided  significant  corroboration.  Also, many  adults reported having been sexually abused by the same offenders when they were children, but the police refused to interview these adults.

The Case is Stonewalled by Child Exploitation Unit head Chris O’Connor
The police recommended that the Welfare Coordinator make reports to DOCS (Child Protection Department)  as  they  stated  it  was  a  ‘protective issue,  not a  criminal  one.’  The Welfare Co-ordinator did this, but weeks passed and the children were not interviewed, and she inquired as to why. She was informed that DOCS would not be taking any further action ‘on the advice of the police.’ So, after telling the Welfare Coordinator to take the case to DOCS for investigation, the Police effectively stone-walled the investigation by advising Child Protection not to investigate.

Relationship between Robert Osmotherly & Chris O’Connor
During the two-year association I had with Robert Osmotherly, ‘DS’ and the Board of Management that they had established, I trusted them implicitly. Although incidents occurred that often left me confused, and often baffled, and of-course, frequently without funding, I continued to trust them. DS always said to me ‘I'm here to help.’ It was his favourite saying.

I  therefore  reported  all  of  the  events  that  had occurred  at  the  northern  secondary school and the Rushworth school, to Robert Osmotherly. Osmotherly then told me that he knew  Detective  Senior Sergeant  Chris  O’Connor  (in  contrast  to his  earlier  pretence  of  not knowing him at all!). He stated that Chris O’Connor is a ‘really good bloke.’ However, when I spelt out the stonewalling of the Rushworth case, Robert Osmotherly 's face twitched and he became visibly uncomfortable. I had never seen Robert Osmotherly react in this way. It was soon after this that very strange events began to occur.

On one occasion Robert Osmotherly was on the phone to his ‘boss’ (of Network 10).When his boss realized that I was present he began to speak aggressively, not knowing that I could hear him. He was saying, ‘put her on the phone to me, I'll sort her out!’ Of course, I found this all to be very strange as I had never even met this man before. However, when Robert Osmotherly apologise on behalf of his boss, I accepted it and put it out of my mind  again, because at that time I trusted him.

I  had  recently  purchased  a  very  cheap  country property  that  I  planned  to  use  as  a retreat  for abused  children.  I  invited  the  board  members to view  the site.  None  attended,however Robert Osmotherly said that he wanted to go - alone with me. He said he had set aside the whole day for it and was putting me under enormous pressure to go with him. I felt very uncomfortable about it as he had insisted on a number of details.

First, it had to be a complete secret. I wasn't even allowed to tell my parents that I was going, let alone where I was going. Second, he had to drive. I wasn't even allowed to drive my car  to  the  station  and for  us  to  drive  together  from  there  (my  car had to  stay  at  my  unit carpark).  And  third,  Robert Osmotherly  insisted  on  picking  me  up  from my unit  before daybreak. This was unnecessary as the trip only takes two-hours. Of course, all of these bizarre ‘conditions’ and the huge pressure that Robert Osmotherly was putting me under made me feel extremely wary. With my parents' help I made up an excuse at the very last minute and did not go.

However,  if  I  had  done  as  Robert  Osmotherly had  wanted  and  if  anything  had happened to me that day, I could have gone missing without a trace.

Sammy's relationship to Network 10
‘Sammy,’ the 12-year-old-girl from Rushworth, was a main victim of the sexual abuse being perpetrated against children in the town. She referred to the offender (a man in his 60's) as her ‘boyfriend,’ and her close friends knew of the sexual activities between her and the man. The offender also happened to be the best friend of her father.

I was asked to provide support to Sammy, and in one session it became apparent that Sammy's personality had been totally fragmented. In her words, she was like ‘a house with mirrors everywhere, smashed into broken bits.’ It was later that I learned about the use by powerful secret societies of trauma-based mind control, sexual abuse and satanic ritual to force children to create ‘alter personalities.’ Other information from Sammy has led me to believe that she has been subjected to all these forms of abuse.

Sammy also told me that her relative takes her to Queensland (Australia) ‘whenever I want’  and  that she  can  get  ‘whatever  I  want,  too.’  It  was only  later  that  I  learned  of  the immense significance of what Sammy was telling me. Sammy's relative is a Board member of Network 10, who is based in Queensland. It is my belief that Sammy was being used in Network 10's production of child pornography, both in Victoria and Queensland.

Here is another example of the police's failure to investigate a case with ominous connections to Network 10. In particular, Detective Senior Sergeant Chris O’Connor’s unit that has been established specifically and exclusively to investigate such cases well and truly ensured that this case would go nowhere.

After two sessions with Sammy I was told that the school had ‘received complaints’ that I had ‘brainwashed the children’ and the support sessions were terminated.

More Connections - the Cult in Rushworth
I was to learn later that there is a Satanic cult operating in Rushworth. I learned this from two independent sources. One was from a Christian woman who was raised in the town and who since had moved elsewhere. The other was from an adult survivor of the cult, Mick.The Satanic cult is very powerful within the town and was headed up by the most powerful and influential families  of   the town. One of  the   members owned and operated the photographic   studio   in   the town.Furthermore, Jeff   Kennett,   the   powerful politician mentioned previously, has significant ‘business operations’ extremely close to Rushworth, and he was driven (by his driver) to this location every week.

Mick's Experiences
‘Mick’ was introduced to the satanic cult as a very young child by an extended relative. Mick  informed me  of  many  experiences  he  was  subjected  to as a  child in  this  cult.  From everything that I have been told by Mick, the cult appears to be the Illuminati operating in Australia. Mick now suffers from MPD/DID but has survived his experiences remarkably well considering the traumas he has been through.

As a child Mick was forced to attend blood-rituals, where animals and small children were sacrificed, and their blood and organs consumed. Mick was required to clean up the blood after these rituals. The children and babies were street children or were taken from orphanages, so that they could not be traced and no one would know, or care, if they went missing. The rituals were spoken in Latin and were clearly satanic. The rituals took place at various locations, including Rushworth. Mick and other children would be driven to the rituals in  the boots of cars.

The  members  of  the cult  were  extremely powerful members  of  society. There were numerous politicians  (mainly  from  the Liberal  Party).  These people  would  often  speak of important events before they would actually occur. Mick was also sexually abused by Graham Kennedy, the famous television personality and professional partner of Bert Newton.

Mick  was  one  of  the  many children  who  were used  to  ‘host’  parties  of  the  cult members.  At these  parties  the children  acted  as  waiters  and were  naked.  Many of  the adults, but not all, would wear masks at these parties. After the food was served the adults would have sex with the children. Children who tried to escape were killed, often in front of the other children in order to control the children through fear. Once Mick and another child had tried to escape but were caught. The other child was murdered by having her head smashed open with a rock. Her body was then dumped in a nearby mineshaft. Mick was spared the same fate, as he was told that he was the ‘chosen one,’ selected to carry on the traditions of the group.

Mick  was  forced  to  participate  in  the  production of  child  pornography,  including movies as well as still photographs. This involved sexual activity with other children as well as adults. He would get paid a small amount for his sexual ‘services,’ while the relative who brought him to the events would get paid a large amount of money. As he got older, Mick was no  longer used  for  sexual  purposes by  the group  but  was required to recruit new younger children. When he was old enough (in his 20's), Mick was able to escape the group, but they continue to contact him with threats.

Robert Osmotherly's ‘Religion’
During my association with Robert Osmotherly I got to know him quite well. One day he informed me of his "religious" beliefs. These were the opposite of mine (as I am a Christian).I was also informed by one of his colleagues in the media industry that Bob's ‘religion’ is ‘weird shit.’ At the time I had not heard of the Illuminati and it is only now that I realise that Robert Osmotherly is an active and dedicated member of the Australian Illuminati. The symbolism used in Network 10 promotional material is totally consistent with that of the Illuminati, such as the key colours - blue and gold, and key imagery involving flames.

Telephone Interference and Intimidation Begins
It  was  after  reporting  the  events  at  Rushworth to  Robert  Osmotherly  that  unusual events began to occur. My phone line began clicking, and the voice-mail service recorded the sounds of a tape clicking over (note that voicemail does not use tapes for recording so the tape was from another source). Two of my organisations' staff members had their cars broken into on the same night.

In one car, the book ‘The Clocks’ by Agatha Christie was on the front seat. The book is the story of a series of murders where the only evidence left at each murder scene is a clock. On the front seat of the other staff member's car was a broken clock. Nothing was stolen from either car. On one occasion I purposely said over the phone that I kept all of my files in the backyard shed (this was not true, I just wanted to test the security of the telephone line). Soon after, the back shed was broken into.

Board Members Propose a Name-Change

At one board meeting, the head of the Agricultural Society, proposed to launch the organisation, despite the fact that it had been operating for nearly two years. He had three ideas. The first was that a rodeo would be organised, and whenever a rider fell from their horse or bull, money would be donated. Thus, it would be ‘money for every bruised butt.’

The second proposal was to organise a ‘beauty pageant’ for 12-year-old girls. There would be an award given for ‘the prettiest girl on the shiniest pony.’ A photo of her on her horse would be used as a centre-page-spread in the leading newspaper (courtesy of the Editor- In-Chief contact). The third proposal was to have a photo of sexually abused children in an ‘animal birthing centre.’ This photo would also be published in the leading newspaper.

The Ag Society head also proposed a name-change. He proposed to change the name of the organisation to 'Shine.' I did not want to do this, and the members of the Board put me under incredible pressure to adopt this name-change.

It was only later that I learnt about the Illuminati connections and the significance of their symbolism and language. 'Shine' is a very significant Illuminati term.

Realisation Dawns
It was at this point that I realised that something was dreadfully wrong. I rejected all of  the  proposed ideas  (very  politely,  but  firmly).  I  also  called for all  outstanding  Criminal Records Checks to be undertaken immediately. The Criminal Records Check had been designed only to identify whether a person had committed any sexual assaults against children or had any involvement in related offences, such as child pornography. Therefore, if a person had smoked marijuana in their university days, this would not be revealed in the Criminal Record Check.

This was a policy that I had insisted on right from the start (nearly two years ago), however Robert Osmotherly had given numerous excuses every time I had requested his. He even went so far as to suggest that he would organise it "on the sly" using his "contacts in the force".  I  did  not  pursue  that option  and  instead  gave  the  Board  members two weeks  to complete their forms and submit them. Robert Osmotherly, while initially embracing the policy at the start, ultimately refused to submit a Criminal Records Check.

The Significance of Shine
I discovered that there is an Australian Internet-based group called 'Shine'. The site includes a membership section where members are able to exchange photos etc, including ‘S&M’ and ‘hard-core Bert Newton style.’ It is a child pornography club that operates similar to the notorious Wonderland club. I noted the code-names used by the operators of the Shine site, one of which was Natas (Satan backwards). I went to the Network 10 site and entered a secret section on the site (which members of the public would never know about). It asked for the password, so I typed in Natas, which took me to another level. It then asked for the next level  password,  which  I  didn't  have.  The computer  then  went  berserk  and  was almost impossible to turn off. I managed to do so only by pulling out all of the connections. Soon after this, the Internet site for Network 10 was shut down and remained shut down for a number of months, which is rather unusual given that Network 10 is such a large company.

After that year, the Department of Education put on a concert involving thousands of children.  They  chose to  call  it  'Shine'.  This  was  an  interesting  choice of  title,  given  my experience  and  other  people's experiences  of  the  Department  of  Education protecting pedophile teachers.


A  further  interesting  connection  was  that  Robert Osmotherly  and  RS  organised  a meeting between us and the senior managers of the Department of Education. When we all met, the men acted as if they did not know each other and were meeting for the first time (exchanging business cards, etc). However, when the men thought I was gone (I was in fact standing just out of their sight), it was very clear that they not only knew each other, but that they knew each other extremely well. They were saying things such as ‘Great to see you again, mate!’ and slapping each other on the back!

Escape from Robert Osmotherly and the Pedophile Board
After I discovered what was going on (at least, I started to discover what was going on) I knew I had to break away from Robert Osmotherly, RS and the people they had put on the Board of Management. The AGM was coming up and I organised for my family to attend. We did this secretly, as we knew that the phone lines were being monitored. On the night of the AGM, the board members were visibly shocked when they saw that members of my family were attending.

It transpired that, rather than undertake a Criminal Records Check, the members of the Board had planned to resign on the spot. This served two purposes; (1) they avoided having to undergo the Criminal Records Check; (2) the organisation would effectively fold as there would  be  no-one  to  take up  the  Board  member  positions.  This  is  exactly what  Robert Osmotherly had wanted from the beginning, but especially since I had begun to  uncover the corrupt pedophile police activities and the crimes in Rushworth.

However,  as  my  family  had  attended  the meeting,  they  were  able  to  take  up  the positions on the Board, and the organisation did not fold. On the surface, the meeting was very amicable and civilized, Robert Osmotherly tried to remain calm, but he ended up storming out of the meeting half-an-hour early.

Mother Receives Death Threat from Robert Osmotherly

My family and I all waited for half-an-hour after the meeting had closed (to recover!) before leaving. We had all come in different cars, and my mother had parked her car in a nearby car park. She walked to her car by herself. We had not learnt to be security conscious at that stage. As she approached her car she was surprised to see Robert Osmotherly there (he had left the meeting half an hour early). He then approached her and said, ‘You had better watch yourself. If you don't, someone might just run over you.’ He then drove off very suddenly and another board member followed in a different car.

My  mother  and  father  told  me  about  this incident,  which  had  left  my mother  very shaken. Soon after I received a message from Robert Osmotherly saying, ‘I only want to help.’ I was infuriated at this man, so I phoned his office and left a message with his Personal Assistant, Pam Cullen (I didn't know the significance of her husband's relationship with Robert Osmotherly and Network 10 at this time) saying, ‘Bob has said he just wants to help me. Could you please tell him that it would be helpful if he could undertake the Criminal Records Check that  he  has  avoided  for so long.  After  all,  it  is  designed  to  only reveal  if the  person  has committed  sex  offences  against children  or  related  offences,  like  the  production of  child pornography.  Oh,  could  you  also  tell him it  would  be  very  helpful  if  he  did  not threaten members of my family. Death threats against my family really aren't helpful. If you could pass this message on, that would be great. Thanks.’

Soon after leaving this message, my mother received a letter from Robert Osmotherly. In the letter he stated that he was only joking when he told her to watch out or she'd end up being run over. Yeah, real funny joke.

Report to Department of Education - Complaints and Investigation Unit
After these experiences I made a complaint to the Complaints and Investigations Unit of the Department of Education. My complaint related to the conduct of Rushworth pedophile teacher,  which amounted  to  repeated  acts  of  misconduct against  students,  and  the  police investigation at Rushworth.

Interestingly, the head of the Department of Education Complaints and Investigations Unit, PG, was at the very first meeting I had to outline my complaint. It was after this meeting that the material, which I had been assured by PG would remain strictly confidential, was given to Chris O’Connor and EI (who subsequently paid a visit to the new President of the Board in an effort to pressure me to drop the complaint). PG then left that posting, but ‘coincidentally’ was brought back to it to finish off the case involving the pedophile teacher.

PG wrote a letter to me exonerating Rushworth teacher on all counts ‘because the witnesses (which I had provided) cannot substantiate your claims.’ As you know, of the eight witnesses that I had provided to corroborate the case, only one had been contacted and she re-confirmed  the  concerns  about  the pedophile  teacher.  In  fact,  she  stated  that  she was amazed  that  it  had  taken  so  long  for  the matter  to  be  investigated! She  was  shocked to discover that Rushworth teacher had been exonerated and that the Department of Education had LIED about her testimony!

After I did the telephone round of the witnesses I had listed and learnt that only one had been contacted, I phoned PG to ask how many of the witnesses had in fact been contacted. He said that he didn't know but that he would call me back ‘within 24 hours.’ Needless to say, I did not receive a return phone call from pedophile-protecting PG.

I  truly  believe  that  if  the  parents  of  children attending  Victorian  schools  knew  the extent to which pedophile-teachers are being protected by the Department of Education, they would  boycott  the education  system  altogether.  And  if  they  knew the  suffering  that  some children and families have had to endure as a result of the pedophile-protecting actions of the Department of Education, they would boycott the system on those grounds too.

I  am  convinced  if  the  parents  of  children attending  the  northern  region  secondary college knew of the abhorrent behaviour of the man teaching their children, and his shocking and extensive history of abusing students, there would not be a single child enrolled in that school in the future!

Leaked Document
After numerous meetings concerning the complaint (which I was told would be kept strictly confidential, particularly from Chris O’Connor and his unit), a document was leaked to me from within the Department of Education. This document revealed that the Department planned to absolve the Rushworth teacher from all complaints. The investigation had been totally and completely corrupted in order to absolve the pedophile teacher.

The  grounds  for  this  were  that  ‘no  complaints of a  sexual  nature  have  been  made against the Rushworth teacher since 1995.’ This was unbelievable! So, the pedophile teacher's invitations for students to meet his penis after school were not considered to be sexual! Also, it was stated that as the schools had taken action in relation to each case, there was nothing more to be done. So, it was therefore acceptable for a teacher to commit repeated acts of serious misconduct, against multiple students, at different schools.

It was very clear that this teacher was being actively protected.

Theft of Department of Education Files
I  left  a  message  with  the  Minister  for  Education to  inform  her  that I  had  received information to indicate that the investigation had been seriously corrupted. Soon after, the unit that I lived in was broken into and files containing information about the Department of Education's protection of pedophile teachers were stolen.

This included a letter from a mother pleading for help as her son had been sexually assaulted  by  a teacher  and  was  now  suicidal.  She  wanted  my help  as  the  Department  of Education was covering up for this pedophile teacher. Nothing else was stolen from the unit.

Visit to the New President of the Board
A new President was appointed to the Board, along with other new members. One day, the new President of the Board received a visit from one of the workers in the child protection field.  This  woman,  EI, approached  the  new  President  and  told  him  that Detective  Senior Sergeant  Chris  O’Connor  knew about  the  complaint  I  had  made  to the  Department  of Education (indicating a significant breach of confidentiality). She told the new President to cease  any  association  with me  and  my  organisation  ‘for  the  sake  of  your professional reputation.’ The incident spooked the new President enough for him to telephone me in an effort to get me to drop my complaint against Chris O’Connor and his unit, which I refused to do. Thankfully, the new President had the integrity and courage to stick with our organisation despite the pressure he was being put under.

Anonymous reports to Crime Stoppers
Approximately 12 months had passed when I decided I would make an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers, a phone-in service where people can give anonymous tips to police about crimes. I telephoned Crime Stoppers from a public phone and informed the woman, Katie, of the pedophile network that was operating in Melbourne. She asked me to call  back again with further information and I did so.

I told Katie that the network was operating under police protection and at that stage had  not  given her  the  police  officers'  names  who  were implicated.  She  then  asked  me  to provide the names of the police officers who were involved. I told her that I was very nervous to    do this, as my family and I had suffered very negative repercussions as a result of this group and I didn't want us to have to go through any more traumas.

She spoke to her boss and he promised me that the information I provided would not go to the police officers of concern, and that the information would go straight to the Ethical Standards Division (ESD), which is the same as Internal Investigations. As she and her boss had promised that the information would go straight to ESD, I gave her the names of  the officers.

When I called back again to find out how the case was proceeding, I was shocked when Katie told me that her boss had forced her to send the information to Chris O’Connor 's unit! The information had gone directly to Chris O’Connor!! Katie apologised and appeared to be genuinely distressed at what had happened.

I asked to speak to her boss and I told him that he had promised that the material would go to ESD, and he exclaimed: ‘Do you realise how serious your allegations are?’ I replied that of-course I did - that's why I wanted the information to go to ESD, and not to the police officers of concern! He said, ‘We don't pass on information to ESD.’ Katie then got back on the phone  and  was  clearly  very  upset.  She implored  me  to  contact  ESD   and  give  them the information myself.

Intimidation and Harassment Begins Again
Soon after this, my family and I were subjected to harassment and surveillance. For example, nearly every day there would be a car out the front of my parent's home (where I had now moved to, for safety reasons), with two men just sitting there. The men often had large walkie-talkies. The cars often had large, thick aerials. Whenever a member of the family walked out of the house the people in the cars would speed off. However, sometimes we were followed by the people in the cars.

The cars were usually very flashy, like large four-wheel-drives or dark shiny sedans. I was often followed by men in white shiny cars with the number plates beginning with VHA and was to later learn that these cars were often used as government vehicles.

Sometimes I would come out of a location, say a friend's house, and there would be a man in one of the flashy vehicles just waiting there. It was very menacing and very stressful for my family and I. We also received unusual phone-calls at that time, clicking noises over the phone  and  sometimes the  phone-calls  were  actively  intercepted with  heavy  breathing  or laughter or shuddering screams. My incoming mail was very clearly being interfered with.

Visits from the Mormons
One day my mother and I came out from my parent's house and there was a group of men waiting in a car out the front of our house again. They sped off when we came out, but this time I got in my car and followed them. As I drove towards them (they had turned their car around and were facing me) they flashed their lights at me.

I drove around the cul-de-sac and was shocked when I got to my parent's house again.The men were talking to my mother from in their car. I called for her to get away from the men and she replied, ‘Its OK dear, they're Mormons.’ I did not believe they were Mormons and I held my hand on the car horn and chased them out of the street. A licence check on their car however,  seemed  to  indicate  that  they really  were  Mormons,  or  were  using  a  Mormon-registered car.

I  did  not  think  they  would  ever  return (especially  if  they  really  were Mormons!). However, two weeks later I was getting into my car and saying goodbye to my mother. The same men approached my mother, not realising I was in the car. They asked if  they could ask her a few questions about me.

I then stuck my head out of the car window and said, ‘If you've got any questions you can ask me!’ They were very surprised that I was there and asked, ‘Why did you chase us out of the street that day. We are just Mormons.’ I replied, ‘Because some of your behaviour is most un-Mormon-like!’ The man then said, ‘Like what?’ and I replied, ‘Like flashing your lights at me.’ He then said, ‘Oh, you mean when we were taking photos of you? You didn't like us taking photos of you?’ The 'Mormons' had just admitted to taking photos of me, without my knowledge or consent. I told them to stay away from me and my family.

Soon after this I saw the same men in a different car. It was a dark, flashy sedan, similar to those that were often sitting in our street. I got the licence plate of this car and gave it to a trusted police office. He told me that the car was owned by a debt-collecting agency, or more likely, a surveillance company as they often used debt-collecting as a front. The owner of the car, however not one of the men who had been seen in the car, was a Mormon. The Mormons were very clearly conducting surveillance on my family and me.

Reports to Deputy Ombudsman
After the problems with Crime Stoppers, I decided to call the Ombudsman's office and pass on the information I had to them, including the incident with Crime Stoppers. The Deputy Ombudsman put me under a great deal of pressure to meet with him and hand over all of my information  to  him  for investigation.  I  said  that  I  wanted  to  meet  with the  new  Chief Commissioner  of  Police,  Christine Nixon,  as  she  was  dedicated  to  flushing  out bent  police. Deputy Ombudsman told me that he would try to arrange this. However, he reported that it was not possible and again put me under great pressure to give all of my information to him for investigation.

I finally did succeed in getting an appointment with the Chief Commissioner. Contrary to  the  Deputy Ombudsman's  claim  that  she  could  not  meet with  me,  she  had  never  been informed that I had tried to get a meeting with her through him. She was extremely annoyed when she had been left out of the loop in this way, and the incident just added to my suspicions about the motives of the Deputy Ombudsman.

Thefts of Evidence
While  I  was  reporting  information  to  the  Deputy Ombudsman  over  the  phone anonymously, two thefts of evidence occurred. On the first occasion, the file was stolen from the boot of the car. I had left it there for two hours while I attended to a matter at a school. When I returned, I discovered that it had been taken. I rushed home to check that the copy left at my parent's house was still there. I discovered that my parent's house had been broken into, the dogs drugged, and the file stolen from a hiding place. Much was taken, including the letter of admission from Robert Osmotherly (of the threat to my mother). Luckily, I had kept a third copy with somebody else.

Fires at Network 10 Studio, Melbourne GPO and Celebrity’s Home
At this time a number of significant fires occurred.One was at a studio used by Network 10.Interestingly,  the  copy  of  the network's  recent  multi-million-dollar  production had ‘coincidentally' been removed from the studio two days before the fire. All that survived the fire was a Sesame Street character, which took centre place in a photo of the scene in the leading newspaper's report.


Within a week there was another fire, this time at the Melbourne General Post Office. All  of  the  post offices boxes(and their contents)  were destroyed,  though  little  else  was affected. Finally, again within a week, a suspicious house fire occurred in the home of a well- known television celebrity. This celebrity is a member of the same secret society as RS. All that was  destroyed  in  the  fire  was  a collection  of  videos  and  photographs. Interestingly,  the comment of the celebrity was, ‘It can all be put to bed now.’ A strange thing to say after your house has just gone up in smoke.

A  further  interesting  incident  occurred  at Melbourne's  largest  brothel. An  armed intruder stole a relatively small amount of cash from the brothel but was led to the safe where videotapes  of clients  engaging  in  sexual  activities  were  kept. Video  tapes  of  clients  were ‘stolen,’  including those  of  Jeff  Kennett,  a  frequent  client  of this  establishment.  A  reliable contact informed me that the theft was actually an ‘inside job.’

Within a two-week period, thousands of videos had gone up in smoke or destroyed. These  events occurred  at  the  time  of  the  reports  being  made to  Ian  Snow.  It  is  also  very interesting to note that at that time, the British section of Interpol was in Victoria conducting a ‘secret’ investigation into child pornography.

Children Tortured or Die in Mysterious Circumstances
It  was  also  around  this  time  that  a  number  of children  connected  to the  child pornography industry were either killed in suspicious circumstances, or tortured. I was working with a young girl and was very concerned for her safety at this time. I told a trusted police officer  of  my concerns  for  this  girl.  A  week  later  she  had been  rushed  to  hospital.  An unregistered ‘tank’ (her word, meaning a very solidly built car) had come out of nowhere and slammed into the car in which she was a passenger. Thankfully, she survived.

Fears for My Life
I had managed to arrange a meeting with the Chief Commissioner of Police (this was no small feat, as there had been many stumbling blocks, and it appeared that there were people actively trying to prevent such a meeting). In the weeks leading up to the meeting I was in real fear for my life.

On one occasion I came home late at night and saw two men sitting in a car just up from my parent's house. As no-one was home at my parent's house, I drove to the top of the hill to stay with my friends. They did not hear the doorbell, and while I was standing in the street wondering where I would go, the men in the car drove up the hill very slowly, looking for me.

I had all of the evidence with me (since the thefts I did not let it out of my sight) and had to quickly hide in the bushes. The men drove up and down the street no less than five times looking for me. I had to cut through the backs of homes in order to get to another friend's house, where I stayed the night. They also witnessed the men driving up and down the street looking for me.

The next evening, I heard and saw the same car drive up the hill. As no-one was going to be home that evening, I quickly got in my car and drove to another friend's house where I stayed  the  night. The  next  morning  the  friends  discovered  that their  front  light  had  been smashed in. No other houses in the street had been affected. However, the neighbours did report hearing strange cars driving up and down the quiet street late that night. It was after this that I wondered if I would live to be able to hand over all the information I had to the Chief Commissioner.

Meeting with Christine Nixon, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police
I attended the meeting with Christine Nixon, Chief Commissioner of Victorian Police, along with the trusted police officer who had investigated the house break in and thefts of the files.  The  Chief Commissioner  believed  me  and  was  very concerned.  She organised  for  the matter to be thoroughly investigated. The Chief Commissioner asked me if I wanted police protection for my family, which I declined (sometimes that results in more trouble). She told me  I could contact her office whenever necessary.

Soon after this my unit was broken into and one of my collectable dolls had the eyes painted over. I phoned the Chief Commissioner's Personal Assistant and let her know that I would be sending the Chief a letter via registered mail. At the start of the conversation the line was clearly intercepted, which the Personal Assistant heard. She told me to call her back from a public phone.

Interestingly, after letting her know that a letter was coming to her via registered mail, the Chief Commissioner did not receive it. I called some weeks later after having received no response and was told that the letter had somehow been intercepted! All letters to the Chief are signed for, and the person who had signed for the registered letter I had sent was not known in the police force.

However, after two days of the Chief Commissioner demanding to know where the letter went, it turned up with a post-it note attached, 'Sorry, didn't know where to send this.' Well, to the person it is addressed to might be a start!

Ethical Standards Department (ESD) Investigation Gets off to a Questionable Start
I had a meeting to begin my statement to the Ethical Standards Department. It was clear that the officer appointed to the case did not believe what I had to report. While he went to have a smoke, he (accidentally) left me with the report that had been written by another police officer in response to my own report (that had been submitted to the Chief).

I could see why the police officer I was dealing with was so dismissive of what I had to say. The report discredited everything that I had reported. It made a mockery of my claim that Bert Newton and other high-profile individuals were involved in pedophilia and stated that there was nothing to support my claims of intimidation and harassment. This was despite the fact that there were numerous witnesses to these events.

The  author  went  on  to  say  that  an  investigation must  be  seen  to  be conducted,  however, because if the information was to be made public there would be a public outcry. That is, make it   look like it is being investigated, but don't do anything!

Even more disturbing was the specific recommendation that a Detective be appointed to conduct  the  investigation.  The  detective  was  a close  friend  and  colleague  of  Chris O’Connor's and had in fact worked with him in his unit for many years. Indeed, he had only left Chris  O’Connor's unit three  months  ago  to  be  transferred  to  ESD.  It was  very  interesting timing. At the same time Chris O’Connor receives information that someone is dobbing him in for misconduct, his close friend and colleague gets a transfer to ESD and ends up with the job of investigating his best mate! How very convenient.

The Deputy Ombudsman Gets the Investigation
After  this  turn  of  events  (I  reported  it  all  to the  Chief  Commissioner),  the  Deputy Ombudsman was given the investigation.

Child Care Centre, Pedophile Network, Police Pedophiles and Network 10
The Deputy Ombudsman informed me briefly about a case in the early 1990's. I did my own  research into this  case  and  discovered  that  it  involved  a creche in  the  Mornington Peninsula   region.   A high-profile   group   of  men  were sexually abusing, torturing   and hypnotising the children. The owner and his wife took the children out of the centre during the day to  the  homes  of  the  rich  and powerful,  where  the  children  would  be  sexually abused, tortured and filmed. The children were also subjected to satanic ritual abuse. This case was almost identical to those in the USA (Little Rascals, McMartin and others).

The offenders were wealthy and powerful men in the community and included police officers. Video copies of  the  children  being  abused  were  obtained  by Network  10  (how interesting it is that Network 10 should be involved). However, when the story went public, the video tapes went ‘missing’ and the police claimed that they never received them. Ultimately, the police did not take any action against the owner of the creche, on the grounds that    the  children were  too  young  to  be  viewed  as credible  witnesses.  While  there  was conclusive evidence that four of the children had been raped or sexually abused while at the day  care centre, the owner was never charged.

A  concerned parent  with links to the underworld offered  the head  of  a  bikie group $10,000 to inflict enough damage so as to ensure that the owner of the creche could never sexually abuse another child again. The head of the bikie group said that they knew about the owner of the creche, and what he was up to, however, they could not do the job. Much as they would like to, the owner had protection from the very highest levels. He was untouchable.

When   the   Mornington   Peninsula   child-care-centre   case   broke,   an   investigative journalist infiltrated an elite child-pornography and pedophile club based in Melbourne. Its members were all wealthy and elite members of Melbourne society. It was chaired by the CEO of a  major  Melbourne Charitable  Trust.  This  article  included  information on  their  use  of telephone monitoring, courtesy of the group's contacts within Telecom.

The children from the Mornington Peninsula child-care-centre reported being taken to a ‘pink’ room with a spa and other significant decor. It was in a house where the children were sexually abused, tortured and filmed (amongst other locations). Three children independently identified to the investigators the house that they had been taken to.

Sure enough, the room had been painted a dusty-pink color, and it had a spa and the other decor items described by the children. However, as you now know, no further action was taken against the owner of the child-care-centre, nor others suspected of being involved in the ring.  What  is  most significant however,  is  that  the  pink  house WAS  REGISTERED  TO  THE VICTORIA POLICE!!

I am now working with some of the young survivors of the child-care centre and their families. It is clear that a cover-up of the highest order occurred in 1992, and the children and their families are still suffering from it.

Present Days
All  of  this  material  is  currently  being investigated by  the  Deputy  Ombudsman. However,  the investigation  has  been  marred  by  suspicious activity.  Perhaps  the  most significant  example  is the  conduct  of  the  police  officer  Ian Soft  appointed  to  head  the investigation: Detective Jock Westland.

My  colleague,  a  counsellor  who  worked  on  the 1992  Mornington  Peninsula  Creche case, provided Jock Westland with information pertaining to a video tape that depicted police actively involved in the satanic-ritual-sexual abuse of children from the creche. This is highly significant information. However, I discovered from one of the other investigators that Jock Westland had decided not to pass this information on for further investigation. In fact, his notes read, ‘This witness (my colleague) has no information of significance.’

In  addition  to  this,  Jock  Westland  refused  to investigate  my  claims  of  intimidation and harassment on the grounds that I was ‘paranoid.’ This is despite the fact that there are many witnesses to certain events who can corroborate my claims, and indeed, several have provided Statutory Declarations to do so.

Jock Westland has been under ‘investigation’ for these actions for two months now, and I am yet to find out whether he will continue to be involved in this investigation. If he remains on the case, we can be sure that this so-called investigation is just another example of  high-level  white-wash  and cover-up  of  organised  pedophilia  and  child pornography  in Australia.

A final note on the Department of Education investigation. I received a letter stating that  the Rushworth  teacher  had  been  cleared  of  all charges,  as  the  witnesses  could  not substantiate my claims. However, of the pool of eight witnesses I had provided ONLY ONE HAD BEEN  CONTACTED and she  clearly  re-affirmed  the  concerns  about the  Rushworth  teacher. Another  cover-up  of  the highest  order  and  complete  protection  given  to one  of  the untouchable pedophile elite.

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Ombudsman Bashed plus Other Anomalies

- Norman and Alison Shulver ran the Mornington Child Care Centre and Nursery School,in Parwan Crescent, Mornington, a bayside suburb of Victoria.

- The  Police  Child  Exploitation  Unit  investigated and  determined  that  24  children alleged abuse while attending the Centre. The State Government Office of Preschool and  Child  Care  inquiry  heard evidence  that  in  1992  while  attending  the centre,  a number  of  children  were  taken  in  a car  to  a  nearby  house,  undressed by adults, photographed and videotaped while naked, forced to play sexual games, and urinated and defecated upon by adults. The adults wore masks and ‘funny clothes’ including police uniforms.

- Ann Sherry, who chaired the 1992 inquiry by the Office of Preschool and Child Care found that the Shulvers were not appropriate people to be running a childcare  centre, having  at least allowed  the abuse to  take place. She  further found,  ‘There  is a substantial amount of evidence that the person or persons who actually committed the     acts of abuse may have included Norman Shulver.’

- In 2002, Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon referred complaints to the  Victorian Ombudsman  Dr  Barry  Perry.  Shortly  before  he was  due  to report  his findings, Ombudsman Barry Perry was bashed and left for dead.

- His successor’s 2004 report alleged serious misconduct on the part of Chris O’Connor and his mate, the ESD investigator, including failure to obtain witness statements and evidence, and mishandling evidence. Police denied speaking to witnesses or receiving evidence,  until  telephone  records proved  this  was  a  lie.  Police  denied  receiving a videotape of men in police uniforms raping the preschool children in a Mornington house registered to a member of the Victorian Police, and the videotape subsequently went missing from the police evidence locker.

- Chris O’Connor (head of the Child Exploitation Unit and the Sexual Crimes Squad) and the  other detective  who  threatened  and  intimidated child  victim-witnesses,  were destined for transfer until the Victorian Police union threatened industrial action. In 2005, Simon Overland, Assistant Commissioner for Victorian Police, said the findings against the two detectives were ‘minor failings’ and he took no further action against them.

- The Ombudsman’s report was never published, on the grounds it ‘would identify the child victims.’

Victorian Law Changed to Silence Dr Reina Michaelson
Dyson Devine and Vivienne Legg ran a website called gaiaguys in which they typically covered  topics including  environmental  issues  and  government corruption. In  2005,  the Melbourne  OTO  (Ordo Templi  Orientis)  used  an  interstate  ACT  judge to  sue  the  website owners for publishing Reina Michaelson’s aforementioned experiences on their site. On 28 June 2005, the ACT Magistrate's Court ordered Devine and Legg to remove the article and pay the OTO $30,000. The OTO subsequently repeated this tactic of using ACT judges to silence anyone from any state who posted anything negative about them on the internet, until a defendant won their case.

In 2006, Victoria’s Labor government amended the Religious and Racial Tolerance Act of  2001 specifically  to  target  Dr  Reina  Michaelson.  The Victorian  Civil  and  Administrative Tribunal tested the amendment by hearing a case the OTO brought against Reina Michaelson.The VCAT (Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal) wrongly determined the OTO met the Act’s definition of a religion. Thelema, which the OTO practised, technically met the definition, but  the  OTO  did  not.  Reina Michaelson’s  lawyer  ignored  this  fact  and ruined  her  case. Consequently, the VCAT decided Dr Michaelson’s account of the Victorian pedophile network religiously vilified OTO members and ordered her to remove the document from the internet. Reina had been set up for this court case because she did not have control over the websites that published the document and never gave her permission for the document to be posted. On 28 November 2007, VCAT Judge Harbison sentenced Devine and Legg to 9 months prison for contempt of court for not removing the document from their gaiaguys website.

The alleged pedophile network was never investigated, the alleged perpetrators were never charged, and the alleged victims were silenced via threats, torture or murder. Norman and Alison Shulver, who ran the Mornington Child Care Centre and Nursery School, resettled in Brisbane. Dr Reina Michaelson fled for her life to the Northern Territory.

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NSW Pedophile Network

While  Reina  Michaelson  was  battling  pedophiles in  Victoria,  I  was  confronting  an identical pedophile  network  in  New  South  Wales.  The following  articles that  I  wrote  for Independent Australia online news journal capture my experiences:

NSW Education Department Covers up Teacher’s Alleged 18-Year Child Sex AbuseSpree
Fiona Barnett, Independent Australia, 25 June 2013.

The Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, which has commenced private hearings in Brisbane this month, is expected to shed light on one of Tweed Shire's darkest secrets

— horrifying abuse, systematic cover-ups and institutional failure and corruption in NSW schools and the police service. Parent and whistle-blower Fiona Barnett fronts the Commission tomorrow — here she tells part of this story

ON  14  MARCH  2006,  Jill  Carlon,  Chief Investigator  for  Employee  Performance  & Conduct of the Department of Education and Training, sent concerned Tweed Shire parents a letter:

I am writing to advise you of the finalisation of the investigation and follow up action taken in respect to allegations that a teacher at Centaur Primary School, acted in a manner that could amount to improper conduct against students... In reviewing the investigation,  all  the  available information  has  been  carefully  considered  and, as  a result,  steps have been taken to ensure that the person will no longer be employed or involved in school, TAFE or student-related activities.

The letter brought to an end, at least for the parents involved, an 18-year nightmare and an alleged reign of terror by that teacher — of physical, emotional and sexual assault and abuse.  However,  many questions  still  remain,  including  how  this man  was  allowed  to  be exposed to vulnerable children over such a long period? How has this matter been covered up   for so long? How was he able to continue teaching in NSW independent schools, and in public schools just a few miles away across the border in Queensland? Why have NSW police consistently  refused  to  properly investigate  his  activities?  And  why  has  he  never faced criminal prosecution?

The  teacher  in  question  was  Gary  Willis,  a middle-aged  man  who  transferred  to Northern NSW in the late 1980s. Despite allegedly having no prior experience in special needs, Willis received a 3-year position at East Murwillumbah Primary School’s Special Education Unit.  Almost  immediately  Willis began  working  at  the  School,  allegations  of inappropriate behaviour emerged — even directly in front of parents. For instance, one outraged mother related, in a written statement, that Gary Willis had allegedly exposed his penis and urinated directly in front of children, parents, and teachers during a school excursion:

Gary Willis made no attempt to be discrete [sic] or hide his penis from any of us and grinned the whole time he was urinating. I was horrified that a teacher would conduct himself  in  this  manner  in  front  of young  children,  so  I  reported  the  incident  to the principal, Al Gudgeon.

Principal  Gudgeon  asked  the  parent  to  tell  him specific  times  and  dates  of  the incidents, apparently  so  that  he  could  report  them.  The mother  provided  the  requested information, but said the principal never followed through with the complaint:

I became very frustrated and angry with Al Gudgeon because I believed he was not taking any of these matters seriously and trying to cover up all complaints. I felt so strongly about the lack of protection and moral obligation to all children attending East   Murwillumbah   Primary School   because   of  Al   Gudgeon   and   Gary Willis,   I transferred my children to another school.

In  the  classroom,  Gary  Willis  was  responsible for the  most  vulnerable children imaginable — children who were intellectually disabled, autistic, unable to walk and unable to  speak.  Former  students, parents,  and  teachers  allege  that  Gary  Willis sexually  and physically  assaulted  these  disabled children.  Witnesses,  including  other teachers,  also say they  witnessed  Gary  Willis  being  violent toward  students,  including  allegedly  ramming a wheelchair bound child into a wall and thrusting another disabled boy’s head into a sink. Two teachers stated that Gary Willis constantly refused to allow female aids to toilet the female students  and  that he  insisted  on  doing  this  delicate  task himself.  Arguably  even  more shocking, witnesses allege that Gary Willis taught mainstream schoolboys to sexually assault the disabled girls. Medical evidence, police interviews and local DOCS intervention appear to support  this  claim. Police,  DOCS,  and  a  paediatrician  concluded that  two  girls  had  been sexually assaulted at East Murwillumbah Primary School; Gary Willis was named in both cases. Parents subsequently watched him being seized by police from the school for questioning.

How  was  he  allowed  to  allegedly  perform  these heinous  acts  almost  entirely unchecked? To begin with, it seems his line manager, East Murwillumbah’s Special Needs Unit head Steve Tyler (now deceased), at best turned a blind eye to his alleged activities and, at worst, according to some reports, may have even been an active participant in the abuse.

Numerous witnesses complained to East Murwillumbah Principal Al Gudgeon about these  and other  abuse  allegations.  But  Al  Gudgeon apparently  delayed  notifying  the Education Department and DOCS of the allegations and instead tried to cover the matter up including by making late night phone calls to parents, where he allegedly  threatened them with  legal  and departmental  action  if  they  continued  their complaints, amongst  other repercussions. To keep the staff quiet, Gudgeon allegedly threatened teachers with dismissal if they spoke to parents about what they had witnessed at the school. What is more, teachers also complained about Al Gudgeon’s own inappropriate behaviour. One described an incident when the principal allegedly used a child to deliver a picture of a penis to a 22-year-old female teachers’ aide, and then complained when his gift was returned.

Parents and staff complained about the child abuse allegations at East Murwillumbah School ‒ verbally, personally, and in writing ‒ to the Education Department’s Head Office in Sydney,  to  the Lismore Regional  Office  and  to  the  Cluster  Director  at the  Murwillumbah District Office.

A  special  needs  teacher  aide,  Debra  Edwards, submitted  a  hand-written  complaint (dated 25 July 1991) to Cluster Director John Quill. Mrs Edwards reported catching Gary Willis with a naked, disabled, female student ("AA") on an excursion. In her complaint, Mrs Edwards alleged that she witnessed Gary Willis take the child AA to the men’s toilet during another excursion and doing something to her that made her laugh uncharacteristically while toileting. On another excursion, she said she witnessed Gary Willis take AA for a lone motorbike ride into the bush and then admit to having toileted her. Mrs Edwards also says she witnessed Willis physically assault children. Debra Edwards never heard from the Education Department regarding her written complaint to the Cluster Director. To her knowledge, neither Principal Al Gudgeon nor the Department ever informed the girl's parents that formal complaints had been  made  concerning  the alleged  abuse  of  their  daughter  whilst  in  the care  of  the  East Murwillumbah Primary School. The Department did, however, subsequently ban Gary Willis from approaching the child.

When parents further complained to Cluster Director John Quill that Gary Willis was allegedly sexually abusing their children, Quill concluded that the best outcome parents could hope for was to have the perpetrator transferred to another school.

In  response  to  multiple  child  abuse  complaints, witnesses  say  the  NSW Education Department sent three investigators to East Murwillumbah Primary School to monitor the behaviour of Gary Willis for three weeks. Unfortunately, Gary Willis was allegedly warned that these investigators were coming and so behaved impeccably during the observation period. After  concluding  their watching  brief,  the  investigators  reported that  they  perceived  no problem with Gary Willis. They reached these conclusions despite not having interviewed any parents or staff witnesses.

Parent ‘DM’ stated that she received a phone call from a Sydney solicitor acting on behalf of Gary Willis. The solicitor stated that she was representing Willis in some matter involving ‘AA.’ The solicitor sent a document for DM to sign, which asked her to attest that Gary Willis never hurt her intellectually disabled daughter. But Gary Willis did, allegedly, hurt her daughter — as the former student’s statement reveals:

Mr Tyler was watching when Mr Willis put the stick between my legs… Mr Willis put stick in other girls – L… Mr Willis pulls pants down all the time, and Mr Tyler, before he died, he watched him. Mr Willis showed everyone what he’s got. He played with it…

Teacher Jeff Fallon stated that around 1994 (the same time DM received the phone call from a Sydney solicitor), he received a visit from a frantic Al Gudgeon, who stated that a complaint concerning DM's daughter had ‘gone up a notch’ and was now with the Minister for  Education.  The  principal allegedly  asked  Fallon  whether  he  possessed  a copy  of  the minutes from meetings he and Gudgeon attended concerning the abuse allegations at the school. Jeff Fallon said the Education Department suspended Gary Willis from teaching in the early 1990s, and placed him at Murwillumbah District Office for 12 months while he was being investigated for misconduct.


South Tweed Primary School
In  1991,  the  NSW  Education  Department transferred  Gary  Willis  to  South  Tweed Primary School,  where  he  was  assigned  to  teach  infants. Parents  and  teachers  soon complained  to  the principal  about  how  Gary  Willis  presented himself  and  acted  around students. For example, one teacher described in a statement his work attire:

He wore short ‘ruggers’ with no underpants, and often you could see the cheeks of his bum, his testicles, and his penis hanging out the bottom. He wore thongs and old, faded stretched round-neck t-shirts. I can’t remember ever seeing him dressed differently.

Parents at the new school soon began complaining about Gary Willis’ mistreatment of their children. For instance, a Grade One boy (‘E’), told his mother that Gary Willis constantly locked himself with little girls in the class storeroom. Other former students recalled similar incidents:

I remember Mr Willis took one or two girls into the classroom storeroom alone and shut the door. He would stay in there for a while. The girls would go into the storeroom with neat hair, but would come out with messed up hair. Sometimes the girls would look upset and as though they were about to cry. Mr Willis chose the pretty girls to take into the storeroom.

‘E’ also complained that he was being constantly harassed and physically assaulted by Gary Willis. E’s mother appealed for help to a friend of hers, Dawn Mitchell. Mrs Mitchell happened to know about Gary Willis from East Murwillumbah Primary School, where she had accompanied  DM  to meetings  with Al  Gudgeon. Mrs  Mitchell also  happened  to know the family of an Indigenous boy in Gary Willis’s class (‘T’). In a signed statement, T recalled being physically  and  emotionally  abused  by  Gary Willis,  who  –  he  alleged  – regularly  called him‘coon,’  ‘nigger  and  ‘the  black  snake.’  Two former  classmates  and  one  former teacher corroborated T's testimony in writing.

Mrs  Mitchell  consulted  South  Tweed  Primary School’s  Aboriginal  Liaison  Officer  /School Counsellor, Joan Sheriff, and relayed the child abuse allegations against Gary Willis that had arisen at Murwillumbah East Primary School. Ms Sheriff apparently reprimanded Mrs Mitchell for making the accusations, but then allegedly said: ‘I never did like his short shorts.’ The Principal then contacted Mrs Mitchell and arranged a meeting with her, during which Mrs Mitchell reported Gary Willis’ extensive history of child abuse allegations.

But just days following the two meetings, Gary Willis supervised a school sleepover attended by infant children. During the sleepover, Gary Willis allegedly sexually assaulted six young  girls.  The following  day,  parents,  teachers,  and students  witnessed  the  girls  in  a distressed state at school assembly.

Three  Tweed  South  parents  complained  to  the school  principal,  counsellor  and teachers regarding Gary Willis’ abuse of children. According to them, their complaints were mishandled and denied. One of the parent's daughter's wrote a statement when she was 20:

I recall that Gary Willis came to my house out of the blue one night and insisted on getting some takeaway and having dinner with my mother and I. My mother looked shocked at this, and she couldn’t get rid of him. In an effort to get him away from our house, my mother suggested we go somewhere else for dinner. We went to Club Banora and had the buffet. All night during this meal, Mr Willis sat me on his lap, played with my hair, and told me how beautiful I was.

Despite parents’ ongoing protest, Gary Willis was allowed to supervise a second school camp at Hastings Point. Again, teachers, parents and students allegedly witnessed Gary Willis visit young girls’ tents late into the night.

Parents and teachers complained that Gary Willis allegedly made young female school children change into their sports uniforms in the back of his panel van while he watched. Witnesses also recall Gary Willis taught girls dancing at Tweed Heads South Public School and an occasion in which he supervised these dancers at a combined schools’ concert at a local club. During the concert, Gary Willis was allegedly seen refusing to allow parents to change his young dancers backstage, so that he alone changed them.

A Tweed Heads South Public School teacher witnessed complaints about Gary Willis allegedly flood into the school, particularly from Grade 5 and 6 students. When she consulted the principal about these complaints, she was told that ‘photographic evidence’ was needed before   the   allegations could be   acted   on.  The   teacher   stated  that   Gary Willis   was subsequently banned from associating with the older students at the school, but was still placed in charge of infants.

In 1992-93, the parents of an 8-year-old child girl in Gary Willis’ class phoned their friend, South Tweed teacher ‘Ms X’ and reported that Willis had just sexually assaulted their daughter ‘BB.’ Ms X immediately attended the family home and spoke with the victim. Gary Willis had allegedly asked BB and another little girl to stay behind after school that afternoon.He  then allegedly  took the  girls  into his classroom  storeroom,  fondled them,  and digitally penetrated them. Consequently, BB suffered bed-wetting and screaming in her sleep. Despite Ms X’s pleading, the parents declined to have Gary Willis charged because they did not want to put their daughter through the police and legal system.

Ms X reported the assault to the Principal Genevieve (Geni) Coughlin. The principal allegedly told Ms X to remain silent about the assaults. She also allegedly bullied her, yelled abuse at Ms X through her classroom window. She also subsequently allegedly criticised Ms X’s teaching to parents, though many of the same parents responded by supporting Ms X — at least one calling her ‘the best teacher ever.’ Ms X was pregnant during the worst of this abuse and says she began to experience stress and high blood pressure after these highly stressful experiences.

Ms X complained to the District Inspector at Murwillumbah about Gary Willis and the principal’s bullying. The Director allegedly advised Ms X to: ‘Tell the people at South Tweed to have enough intestinal fortitude to stand up to her and come to me with their grievances, so I can do something about it.’ Ms X’s work colleagues shied from following the Inspector’s second-hand advice, allegedly out of fear of reprisal.

The  NSW  Department  of  Education  sent  a counsellor  to  speak  with  South  Tweed teaching staff. Without interviewing either the victim or her parents, the counsellor dismissed Ms X’s allegations of child sexual abuse against Gary Willis as being unfounded. The counsellor allegedly told Ms X that she was being irrational, to think of her unborn baby, and she advised the whistle-blower to ‘punch a pillow’  to relieve her frustration and anger regarding Gary Willis and the principal. Ms X subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown and resigned from the NSW  Department  of  Education  altogether.  She could  not  cope  with  entering  a  school again for 20 years. The once-passionate teacher concluded:

I was the one who the Department said needed counselling, and I was the one who ultimately resigned in frustration, and yet a suspected child sex abuser was left alone in his classroom, teaching.

Following multiple complaints against Gary Willis at South Tweed Primary School, the NSW Education Department eventually transferred him to the neighbouring Centaur Primary School.

Centaur Primary School
In 1998, when Ms X’s youngest child started school at Centaur Primary School she was appalled  to  see Gary  Willis  at  the  school,  still  teaching. She immediately  consulted  the principal Mary-Anne Judge. Ms X told Ms Judge about Gary Willis’ history of abusing children, and  warned  that  he  was  not to  approach  her  child.  The  principal  allegedly responded:  ‘I absolutely understand. I wouldn’t have him here if I had any other option. I’m stuck with him.’

Dawn Mitchell’s  own  daughter  attended Centaur Primary School.  In  1998, upon discovering that her child had  been  placed  in  Gary  Willis’ English  class, Mrs Mitchell (accompanied by parents Eric and Jeanette Ackerman) met with principal Mary-Anne Judge. Mrs Mitchell raised concerns about Gary Willis teaching her children and his history of alleged abuse at his two previous schools. Principal Judge allegedly told the three parents that she was unaware of any abuse allegations and she challenged Mrs Mitchell to either prove them or stay silent.

That evening, Principal Judge phoned Mrs Mitchell and allegedly stated that what the mother had said regarding Gary Willis’s abuse allegations was true, but that she would not confirm  it  in  front  of  other parents.  Mary-Anne  Judge  said  that  she  had been  trying unsuccessfully to get rid of Gary Willis for quite a while but that the Education Department had resisted her efforts. Mary-Anne Judge indicated that, with this mother’s help, she might successfully ‘get rid of’ Gary Willis.

During their next encounter, Principal Judge allegedly told Mrs Mitchell that she had contacted the Education Department’s Regional Director, and that she was waiting to hear back from him. Mrs Mitchell next saw Principal Judge at a Grade 6 break-up dinner. Principal Judge is said to have asked this mother: ‘Have you noticed someone’s been conspicuous by their absence?’ She was apparently referring to Gary Willis, who had been absent from the school for some time. Mrs Mitchell said Principal Judge then stated: ‘Expect a visit by the NSW Education  Department  over  the holidays.’  The  mother  was  never  contacted  by the  NSW Education Department. Feeling threatened, Mrs Mitchell pulled her daughter out of Centaur Primary School.

Following a stint in administration at the Murwillumbah District Office, Gary Willis was  reinstated at Centaur Primary School. Upon his return, multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour and sexual abuse were subsequently reported to Principal Mary-Anne Judge.

A former Centaur teacher, Sandy McGrady, alleged that every single Centaur teacher was aware of Gary Willis’ history of paedophilia allegations. She added that a Centaur parent confided in her that Willis sexually abused her daughter. Another teacher, Alison Howells, alleged that a cleaner caught Gary Willis sexually assaulting a girl in a Centaur Primary School
storeroom. Another parent stated that Gary Willis sexually assaulted a Grade 5 student (‘CC’)in    2003.

In  2004,  Centaur  parent  Sharon  O’Grady allegedly  confronted  Principal  Mary-Anne Judge about Gary Willis and she asked whether her daughter was at risk in the teacher’s care.Sharon O'Grady says Principal Judge replied ‘no’ and she denied any knowledge of Gary Willis’ history.

At a Centaur Primary School disco to celebrate Harmony Day in 2004, parents Steven and Victoria Boyce reportedly saw Gary Willis dancing with young girls in an inappropriate fashion. They said he was dressed in a toga and ‘dirty dancing’ with the girls, including pelvic thrusting towards them from behind. When Mrs Boyce complained to a teacher supervising the disco, the teacher apparently responded: ‘It’s all part of the fun.’ Teachers were seen taking  photos  of  Gary  Willis  dancing  at  the disco.  During  the  disco, Gary  Willis allegedly entered the girls’ toilet and peered underneath a locked door at Mrs Boyce’s daughter. Mrs Boyce said she witnessed the deputy principal chastise Gary Willis for being in the girls’ toilet. Mrs Boyce alleged that Gary Willis made the girls in his class sit immodestly on the classroom floor. Instead of sitting with their legs crossed, he made them sit with their legs apart and knees bent up. Mrs Boyce said that she complained to the school about Gary Willis’ behaviour at the disco. When she mentioned other abuse allegations regarding Gary Willis, the deputy principal, Mr Burgess, allegedly stated: ‘I’ve heard that before, but it’s a load of bullshit.’

In 2006, the NSW Department of Education finally determined that the rumours were not bullshit — and they banned Gary Willis from teaching in the NSW public education system. However, because he had never been charged with a crime, Gary Willis was free to seek child- related employment in the NSW private education sector and interstate. After leaving the NSW Education Department, Gary Willis found two years of employment as a bus driver at a private Tweed  Shire  school,  Lakeside  Christian  College (renamed  Pacific Coast  Christian School). Gary Willis was last seen living and working in Queensland.

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NSW PROTECTS ALLEGED TWEED HEADS PEDOPHILE RING
Fiona Barnett, Independent Australia, 26 June 2013.

In 2004, concerned parent and whistle-blower Fiona Barnett became determined to end teacher Gary Willis’ (then) 15-year alleged child abuse spree — but the NSW Education Department and police had decidedly different ideas. Here, Fiona tells the  second part of this story


In 2004, when I was six months pregnant, my lawn mowing lady raised the alarm. She began complaining about a male teacher at her children’s primary school who was reportedly abusing students. When the woman described the man’s extremely tight and brief shorts, I instantly recognised him as Gary Willis.

I first  heard  about Gary  Willis when  I was attending  a  local high school in the late 1980s. I grew up hearing horrifying stories of this teacher allegedly abusing young disabled children at three local primary schools. Indeed, Gary Willis allegedly sexually, physically and psychologically abused children from the homes of four different family friends.

I  reasoned  that  the  previous  campaign  against Gary  Willis  failed  because  parents complained from the bottom up. This approach allowed the perpetrators and their allies to intercept and quash any action. So, I lodged a complaint against Gary Willis, who was then teaching at  Centaur  Primary School. I alleged that Gary Willis had exhibited inappropriate behaviour toward students at three schools, raising concerns about the protection of Centaur children.  I  also  named  other  teachers whom  parents  and  staff  had  also  alleged  were pedophiles. 

I  requested  an  investigation  into  the  NSW Education  Department’s  mishandling  of abuse allegations concerning Gary Willis over a 14-year period. I was aware that each time abuse allegations began  pouring  in  at  a  school  Gary  Willis worked  at,  the  Education Department simply transferred the man to another local school.

The complaint letters were signed by a large group of concerned parents, and they were accompanied by copies of numerous witness statements. A former teacher aide and I collected signed letters from witnesses, including letters of complaint written up to 14 years prior. Former child victims, now in their 20s, themselves wrote some of these letters. Other victims, including disabled and illiterate witnesses, dictated and signed letters.

Approximately 30 concerned parents signed various letters of complaint that were posted to Prime Minister John Howard, Bob Carr (NSW premier), Brendan Nelson (Federal education  minister),  Jenny Macklin  (Federal  Opposition education  spokesperson),  Andrew Refshauge (NSW minister   for   education),  Jillian   Skinner (NSW Opposition   education spokesperson), and the NSW Ombudsman.

I approached Tweed Heads Police detectives Josh Burton and Murray Baker, who told me that Gary Willis was known by the justice system with regards to child abuse allegations, and that DOCS involvement was mentioned onscreen. Detective Baker said that he put an Intel report into crime manager regarding the information I had gathered and he expressed concern over possible corruption within the Education Department. He stated that Willis had never been charged with anything. He told me that one complaint had been in the system from about  8  to  9  years  ago,  that  it  had  not  been substantiated.  He  told  me  that  certain complaints I knew had been made to police did not appear on the screen under Gary Willis’name.

An EPAC Child Protection Investigator, Sandra Cameron, informed me that the NSW Education Department  held  a  considerable  number  of  files containing  abuse  allegations against teacher Gary Willis, including numerous written complaints by teachers. Ms Cameron said that much of the information was horrendous and allegedly of a criminal nature and that it had subsequently been turned over to the police.

Our  complaint  was  assigned  to  Chief  Inspector Bob  Sullivan  of  the  NSW  Child Protection  and Sex  Crimes  Squad.  On  27  October  2004,  Bob Sullivan  phoned  witness  DM (refer to Part 1), whose daughter (‘Y’) had recently alleged that teachers Gary Willis and Steve Tyler  (now deceased) had  sexually  assaulted  her  while  she  was a  student  at  the  East Murwillumbah Primary School. Y told her mother (DM) that she would like to pursue charging Gary Willis for his alleged crime.

As a result of Bob Sullivan’s phone call, DM complained to the NSW Ombudsman. DM complained that Bob Sullivan had said our efforts were a waste of time and we wouldn’t get anywhere. He allegedly also said DM should think hard about pursuing a complaint against Gary Willis because it would go nowhere, since Y was disabled. Bob Sullivan also allegedly insisted  that  Y  be  interviewed  at  the Tweed  Heads  police  station  instead  of  at  her local Brisbane sex crimes unit. Bob Sullivan did not, according to DM, ask for further information or clarification of existing information. DM also complained that Bob Sullivan left her with an overall feeling that there was no point to pursuing Y’s complaint against Gary Willis and that the policeman had been trying to talk her out of pursuing the matter.

On 3 November 2004, I received a phone call from Inspector Bob Sullivan. During this call, Inspector Sullivan made what I allege are some startling and disturbing statements:

- He criticised victims, parents and witnesses for expecting me to help them.

- He described alleged serial pedophile Gary Willis as a ‘poor bloke’ and the victim of a ‘witch hunt.’

- He said there was no such thing as justice, and that achieving justice in this matter was not the aim of the police;

- He  accused  me  of  fabricating  witness  letters, including  a  hand-written  complaint personally submitted to the Education Department by a teacher aide some 14 years previous.

- He said that NSW police have no record of any complaints against Gary Willis made by victims. When I challenged this by saying that two Tweed Heads detectives had told me  the  opposite, Inspector  Sullivan  contradicted  himself  by saying  that  police  had investigated a number of complaints against Gary Willis, but that none of these had been substantiated. Then, he contradicted himself again, saying: ‘action was taken in 1993.’

- He said there was no evidence of child abuse — just ‘innuendo and rumour.’

- He said he was not prepared to launch a proactive investigation into Gary Willis, as the victims probably would prefer to forget the past and get on with their lives. When I suggested he was pre-empting their reaction and added that many witnesses had been threatened and bribed into silence, and maybe they would feel safe and relieved talking to the police in such a way, Bob Sullivan asked: ‘Mrs Barnett, have you ever been the victim of a sexual assault?’

- He said police were certainly not interested in the ‘minor assaults’ listed.

- He said that if Y's case went to court, witnesses certainly could not be subpoenaed to testify  and that  only  a  Royal  Commission  had  the  power  to interview  reluctant witnesses.

- He stated that Y had the best chance of charging Gary Willis, but that if her letter was the extent of her language ability, she would get nowhere and therefore there’s no point in her pursuing the matter.

- He concentrated on just one of the alleged pedophiles, Gary Willis, and refused to acknowledge allegations against other named teachers and DOCS workers.

- He stated that it was not a crime for Gary Willis to constantly call an Aboriginal child ‘coon,’ ‘nigger’ and ‘the black snake.’

- He stated that he was immediately returning the file to the Education Department and closing the investigation, without contacting any other people or witnesses named in the file.

I complained about Bob Sullivan in writing to the Prime Minister, the Police Integrity Commission, and the NSW Ombudsman. On 7 February 2005, I received a phone call from Kim McKay, Commander of the Child Protection and Sex Crimes Squad. Commander McKay stated  that  Bob  Sullivan  was currently  on  sick  leave  and  that  stress accounted for  his inappropriate behaviour toward me and DM.

Commander  McKay  stated  that the  Sex  Crimes Squad would not  be  conducting an investigation into the Education Department’s allegations of criminal misconduct on the part of Gary Willis and other teaching staff. She stated that this was because Bob Sullivan had assessed  the  file  and  determined the  case  did  not  meet  their  criteria  for investigation. Commander McKay added that the Sex Crimes Squad was already investigating 600 other cases. Commander McKay stated that Bob Sullivan alone made this decision and that she had not read the file herself.[did not meet their criteria?,just what the hell would be criteria? got nothing but anger for this DC]

I suggested that if Bob Sullivan’s functioning was impaired at the time he assessed the Gary Willis case, then perhaps the case should be reassessed by a medically fit, stress-free, police officer. Commander McKay denied this request. She neglected to explain why the Gary Willis case did not meet the Sex Crime Squad’s criteria for investigation.

Commander  McKay  told  me  that  I  must  report everything  else  I  knew  about  the alleged  Tweed Heads  pedophile  ring,  or  else  I  could  be charged  with  an  offence  called ‘Concealing a Crime’. This seemed an odd statement, given Bob Sullivan had refused to accept any further information about the case and McKay had just told me that NSW police were not prepared  to investigate  the  information  they  had  already received.  But,  as  instructed,  I handed over the following information:

- I  reported  a  female  teacher  who  allegedly regularly  took  two  female high  school students for the  weekend.  (One  of  these  students  later  died from  complications following an operation which she underwent soon after her breasts suddenly became engorged.)

- I reported that one set of parents had tried to have a female special needs teacher charged for allegedly sexually assaulting their son.

- I  reported  that  a  male  Murwillumbah  High School  special  needs  teacher's  aide allegedly regularly took a male student home for lunchtime sex. The teacher's aide also allegedly provided the student with pornography, that he would bring home.

- I reported a male Murwillumbah High School careers teacher who allegedly drugged a 17-year-old male at an adult party. The student allegedly awoke in his teacher’s bed, naked, with no memory of how he got there. He allegedly saw the teacher standing naked in his bedroom doorway, saying: ‘It’s okay, sweetie.’

- I reported a Murwillumbah high School English teacher who allegedly had an affair with his Grade 11 student.

- I reported a female Murwillumbah High School English teacher who allegedly had an orgy with a group of her surfing students.

-     I reported my own Murwillumbah High School teacher, who continually photographed female students, including naked arty shots of my friend.

- And, while I was at it, I also reported my Grade 3 teacher from Budgewoi Primary School on the NSW Central Coast, who allegedly sexually abused a classmate during a sleepover at his Wyong farmhouse.

In a letter (dated 9 February 2005) Commander Kim McKay wrote to me:

As a result of my inquiries I have established that there is a disparity between yourself and Detective Bob Sullivan on a number of the issues you have raised and are unable to  determine  where  the truth  lies.  However  I  acknowledge  that if  Detective  Bob Sullivan did ask you if you were a victim of sexual assault, then this was inappropriate and should not have been said. In relation to the manner in which he addressed you I have found that this also was not always appropriate in the circumstances. On behalf of the New South Wales Police Force I apologise for this occurrence.

Parents complained to the NSW Ombudsman concerning the NSW police's refusal to investigate the  alleged  Tweed  Shire  pedophile  ring. Consequently,  in  a letter  dated  18 November 2004, a Detective Sergeant M.N. Robinson of Byron Bay informed us that Detective Sergeant Brett Greentree of Tweed Heads Police station had been assigned to investigate Gary Willis and that witnesses were to contact him and make formal statements at the Tweed Heads police station.

Five of Gary Willis’ former students were prepared to make statements to the Tweed Heads  police.  Three of  these  witnesses  were  intellectually disabled  (ID).  I  had  already contacted the Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS) for legal advice and asked them to supply   a support person to attend the Tweed Heads police interviews with three ID witnesses, including Y. The IDRS lawyer, named Tamara, informed me that their service had trained Joint Investigation Response Teams (JIRT) police officers to interview ID witnesses, including adults. The  lawyer also said that the current police policy and procedures stated that Tweed Heads police must initiate contact with JIRT regarding the three ID witnesses.[IDRS is useless then dirty dirty cops down under DC]

However, when we contacted Ballina JIRT, an officer called Melissa Williams told me that no JIRT police officer was trained to interview intellectually disabled people. She also stated that JIRT refused to interview the three disabled witnesses because they were now adults. One of my initial contacts, Detective Murray Baker at Tweed Heads, said he could not understand why Ballina JIRT would not touch the historical material, because they do ‘all the time.’

When  I  complained  to  Commander  Kim  McKay about  JIRT  refusing  to  interview  ID adults, she stated to me that not one police officer in the whole of NSW had been specifically trained to interview intellectually disabled victims of sexual assault. This, of course, flew right in  the  face  of  the statements  by  IDRS  lawyer  Tamara. Commander  McKay,  however, attempted to placate me by saying that Brett Greentree could be trusted to interview the three disabled victims because he was ex-JIRT (with two years’ experience) and because he was ‘a nice bloke with good intentions.’

NSW   Education   Department   employee   Sandra Cameron   arranged   with   Brett Greentree to be present at the witnesses’ formal police interviews. Ms Cameron allegedly told       a  parent  that  she must attend  her  daughter’s  interview  with police because  she represented the Department and so had to be sure the police questioning was fair to the Department. Ms Cameron subsequently insisted on attending the police interview, even after the parent told her not to. Ms Cameron told another parent that she planned to attend the police interviews so that she did not have to conduct independent interviews.

The IDRS lawyer responded that it was ludicrous for a NSW Education Department representative to attend a police interview where a victim was making a statement and an allegation against the NSW Education Department. Tamara explained that if Sandra Cameron spoke during the interview, it could render the interview inadmissible in court.

I arranged for an IDRS support person to attend the police interviews with the three disabled witnesses, but Detective Sergeant Greentree refused to allow this. I also specifically requested that Brett Greentree video the interviews, but he refused to do this.

To the knowledge of victims and concerned parents, NSW police never investigated our complaints, Gary Willis was never charged with any of the reported crimes and victims were never given the chance to claim compensation for their child abuse experiences.

A Gun to the Head
Following my whistle blowing efforts against what I allege was a pedophile ring in the Tweed Shire, I came under increasing threat from parents, the local police force and various government authorities. The threat began subtly with offers of free ‘counselling’ from the NSW Department of Education. Owing to the increasing number of telephone threats, my mother answered   my   phone.   ‘This   must   be  very stressful   for   Fiona,’   the   Education Department counsellor spoke consolingly. But after my mother politely declined the woman’s invitation,  her manner changed.  The  counsellor  called  repeatedly, each  time  sounding increasingly frustrated and angry at my refusing her ‘services.’

At the same time, my telephone provider informed me that my phone was tapped. Two other whistleblowing parents complained that their phones had been bugged also.

Certain parents who had previously been helpful and collaborative with the whistle-blowing process suddenly began threatening other whistleblowing parents and me. ‘ZZ,’ the mother of East Murwillumbah victim L, phoned me in a hysterical state. She demanded that I give her the numbers and addresses of all the witnesses to Gary Willis’ abuse of children, particularly her daughter. She swore at me and told me she’d sue my ‘fucking arse’ if I did not stop pursuing the Gary Willis matter. She said she would hire a private detective and track everyone down.

When  I  said  it  was  too  late  and  that  the evidence  had  been  forwarded  on  to  the Education Department, she accused me of not having given her the opportunity to view the evidence and discuss her views on the whole matter.

‘I phoned you weeks ago and gave you that chance,’ I reminded her.

ZZ screamed at me: ‘I don’t want to be dragged through no fucking kangaroo court again! My daughter was examined under a general anaesthetic and they found she was still a virgin!’

I explained that someone can be sexually assaulted without damaging the hymen, but ZZ concluded with a tirade of abuse.

I was advised to phone a parent ‘FF’ for information about the alleged abuse of her daughter ‘GG.’ FF had worked at South Tweed Primary School for 18 years.

She told me: ‘I’ve been waiting for your call … It would be best if you handed all those statements back to the parents and don’t implicate yourself further, as this could get bad for your stress levels.’

One  whistleblowing  parent  (‘AF’)  began  receiving phone  calls  from  ZZ  who  would phone and say, ‘Fucking bitch!’ and then hang up. ZZ told AF to retract her statement. She referred to AF’s poor state of health and to the fact that I was pregnant. When AF said she was not going to retract her statement, ZZ became aggressive, illogical, and  spewed profanity at AF. ZZ added: ‘You’re disturbing Al Gudgeon’s retirement. How could you do this, as he has done so much for the community and for children? What happened all those years ago has nothing to do with what is happening today.’

My own daughter attended Banora Point Public School. I attended a P&C meeting at the  school  and raised  the  alarm  about  Gary  Willis.  I  warned parents  and  teachers  not  to employ  Gary  Willis at  our  school  —  the  only  place  he  had not  worked  at  in  our  area. Attendees, including the treasurer David DeClosey and his police officer friend, became visibly angry at me and verbally attacked me in the meeting. Following that, DeClosey and the police officer  attended  the  P&C Federation’s  Annual  Conference.  Upon their  return,  DeClosey passed on a threat to me. A NSW Education Department representative at the conference, he said, had told him to warn me to stop talking about Gary Willis — or else the NSW Education Department would sue me for defamation.

After this, the threats became more tangible. To begin with, the P&C police officer issued me a hefty parking fine for something which, as my daughter’s teacher testified in writing, I simply did not do.

The  threats  became  physical.  The  RSPCA  turned up  at  my  house  following  a  false report of pet neglect. When my fat, happy dog greeted him, the inspector remarked: ‘He’s fine.’  Next, a health and safety officer turned up at my house following a false report that my builder was using a ramset gun while unlicensed. Then police turned up at my house following a  false  report  that  there  was  a  stolen vehicle  parked  in  my  garage. On  several occasions, Tweed Heads police drove slowly by my house, glaring menacingly at me.

Heartbreakingly, my ‘neglected’ dog was dragged beneath our fence and killed, and my pet chickens and ducks were also found slaughtered.

On one occasion, I reported to police that the 13-year-old child of my neighbour had been driving his father’s car at excessive speeds on the highway and had near backed into my car. The petite blonde officer who responded to my complaint failed to identify herself. She verbally abused me for making the complaint, called me a ‘shit-stirrer,’ and slapped me with an AVO from the juvenile’s father. In the end, I paid $14,000 to successfully challenge the spurious AVO.

My husband and mother subsequently attended a meeting with Superintendent Tim J.  Tarlinton  to discuss  our  concerns  regarding  the  increasing threats  against  our  family. Tarlinton treated my family with hostility and contempt.

I began to feel so threatened by Tweed Heads police that I took my 10-month-old baby and six-year-old child into hiding for the next six weeks. My suspicions were justified days later when Tweed Heads police dispatched five squad cars to ambush my home at 5 Anthony Avenue and two relatives’ homes in Laura Street, Banora Point. My accountant husband, due to fly interstate for a work conference, pre-booked a taxi to the Gold Coast airport. Three squad   cars followed   the   taxi,   which   pulled  up   on the highway   just   south   of   the Queensland/NSW border. The taxi driver told my husband to exit his vehicle. Police, dressed in vests, thrust three loaded semi-automatic weapons at my husband’s head, ordered him face down on the side of the highway and handcuffed him.

Five months later, I received the letter from the NSW Education Department informing me  that  they  had banned  Gary  Willis  from  teaching  in  the  NSW public system.  I  then discovered  that Superintendent  Tarlinton  had  retired  from  his position  as  Local  Area Commander and Brett Greentree had been transferred to Bourke on a promotion to Detective Inspector.

Yet my victimisation at the hands of Tweed Heads police did not end there.

The  petite  blonde  female  officer  returned  in 2012,  unidentified  and  armed  with handcuffs and a weapon, to arrest me. Some stranger had illegally parked a trailer on my front lawn and reported that it was damaged while left there unattended. Instead of issuing a $180 fine for the illegal park, the police officer sought to arrest me. Hand clasped on her gun, the officer rang my front door bell. My mother answered. ‘Where is she?!’ the officer hissed. But I had already fled with my family for the third time since blowing the whistle on the alleged Tweed Shire pedophile ring.

It then struck me: the NSW police force displayed more concern for an illegally parked trailer, rather than an unfathomed number of young, disabled children who were assaulted and mentally scarred by a violent sexual predator.

So many questions remain. Where is Gary Willis today? Does he have contact with children? Why were the whistle-blowers, including me, being ostracised and victimised, while the alleged perpetrators were seemingly being protected by the NSW Police. Why did the NSW Police seem so disinterested in investigating an alleged pedophile network, in which there was numerous witnesses and a wealth of documentary evidence? 

Does this suggest that network extends beyond the Education Department and into the police? And does it extend even further than that?

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After   being   banned   from   employment   in NSW, Gary   Willis   was   hired   by the Queensland Education  Department  to  work  at  Tallebudgera Primary  School  on  the  Gold Coast. A Tallebudgera neighbour of Gary Willis told me he tutored her children and assisted with children’s Nippers lessons at Tallebudgera Surf life Saving Club.

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