Ashley Paul Griffith, 47, pleaded guilty to 307 offenses against him, including 70 rapes and sexual assaults against girls aged between one and seven. Facts that occurred in daycare centers in Australia and Pisa, Italy.
He is considered “one of Australia’s worst pedophiles”. This Friday, November 29, Ashley Paul Griffith, 47, was sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually abusing nearly 70 girls aged one to seven. During his trial, the man, who worked in different nurseries in Australia and Italy between 2003 and 2022, pleaded guilty to the 307 offenses charged against him, including 28 rapes. All the events took place within the framework of his missions as an educator.
Considering that Ashley Paul Griffith suffers from a “pedophilic disorder”, that he “lacks empathy towards the victims”, “minimizing the facts” and that he presents “a high risk of reoffending”, the judge ordered a non-parole period of at least 27 years against him, describing the scale and nature of the crimes as “depraved” and “horrific”. “The large number of victims demonstrates the need for a sentence that protects the community,” he said, according to “The Guardian”.
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Other charges have been brought against him in the Australian state of New South Wales and in Italy, leading to speculation that more trials will follow.
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Assaults filmed
Ashley Paul Griffith was arrested by Australian police in August 2022 after a report of “sexual abuse” of four girls. Investigators then found “thousands of photographs and videos” of child sexual abuse on his computer. Some had been downloaded on the dark net and the others made and filmed by the educator, who was betrayed by the very specific sheets from the nurseries where the abuse took place.
Investigators also unearthed a report from a colleague of Ashley Paul Griffith who, a year earlier, had reported to the police having seen the educator kiss on the mouth a sleeping child. At the start of the investigation, some 1,600 sexual offenses against 91 minors were held against him, but the majority of these charges were dropped.
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At the hearing, investigation director Todd Fuller KC said the “real horror” of the actions d’Ashley Paul Griffith “is difficult to describe in words”. “This offense is heinous and difficult to understand,” he said.
“Devastating”
A victim, who had never been aware of the rapes she suffered during her childhood, told how “discovering what he was really doing was devastating”, reports “The Telegraph”. Another woman also spoke about how her actions deprived her of a “normal” childhood, recounting her struggle with mental illness in the years that followed. “I will never know what it would have been like to grow up without being afraid of people,” she lamented. “(My daughter) loved you like an uncle and you used her like a toy,” lamented a parent quoted by News Corp Australia.
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