Police swoop on criminal syndicate which ‘helped steal children, mothers after custody disputes’
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- Category: Australian Antipaedophile Party
- Created: Friday, 19 October 2018 19:30
- Written by Ben Hill - Daily Mail Australia
Inside the 'child-stealing syndicate': Three men including a vigilante paedophile hunter accused of hiding mothers and kids in $140,000 yacht to secretly ship overseas are arrested.
- Founder of Antipaedophile Party accused of masterminding criminal syndicate
- Dr William Pridgeon allegedly organised for children to be taken from fathers
- His 'clandestine' organisation allegedly accused fathers of being paedophiles
- Pridgeon allegedly bought yacht to move women and children from Australia
The founder of the Australian Antipaedophile Party has been accused of masterminding a criminal syndicate which allegedly kidnapped children and their mothers.
Dr William Russell Pridgeon, 64, his friend Patrick O'Dea, 64, and an 83-year-old man have been charged in relation to the alleged criminal operation, which plotted to transport women and children on a $140,000 yacht from Australia to start new lives in New Zealand or Zimbabwe.
Patricia Plaisted, 78, and a 37-year-old vigilante who calls himself a 'paedophile hunter' have been issued with notices to appear in court in relation to the operation.
The children were allegedly taken after marriage breakdowns or custody battles - often contravening Family Court orders - with the mothers claiming their partners were paedophiles, the Courier-Mail reported. Too bad the Courier-Mail is nothing short of a mouth-piece for the government these days. And shame on each mainstream media (so-called) journalists that followed suit like a bunch of lackeys.
Police allege Pridgeon undertook sailing lessons in order to use the yacht 56 South, and had sold his assets for gold bullion - at one point having 11kg (worth $750,000) at a storage facility in Sydney. So what. He's a doctor, having $750,000 in assets nearing retirement isn't anything surprising really now is it.
Pensioners and professionals are believed to be part of the syndicate, which allegedly used encrypted messages in order to avoid detection. "Syndicate"? Really? If the family court sent your children to live with or have unsupervised access with a paedophile, what would you do to help them? Any decent human being would help. Criminalising the good guys and covering for the real criminals is such a gutless act.
If mainstream media weren't so pathetic, they would do the research the staff at Alecomm have and discover, to their disbelief, that the Australian Government and Family Law Courts routinely give paedphiles and convicted sex offenders access to their child-victims.
Pridgeon - who was arrested at his home in Grafton, New South Wales on Wednesday - is a GP and founded the Australian Antipaedophile Party.
He allegedly used Commonwealth money to create a network of 40 people which were part of the operation.
Police allege O'Dea, who was also arrested on Wednesday, was given the job of driving around Australia for days at a time to pick up women and their children.
O'Dea - who once served in the Rhodesian army - allegedly stalked and threatened a father who eventually had his children returned to him years after they were taken.
It is alleged Pridgeon ran a Facebook page where women would send messages asking to escape from men they claimed to be paedophiles. Surely the mainstream media is aware that one in four girls is sexually assaulted by the time they are sixteen. The figures aren't much different for boys. Given that 24% of abuse cases in the family court are allegations of sexual assault, I'd say the figures match the statistics - meaning it isn't possible that all these women are lying and or jilted. What it does mean is that everytime a magistrate calls a protective mother a liar in the federal and family courts, and gives custody or access to the children, he is highly likely placing the child into the hands of the paedophile. The statistics do not lie.
Pridgeon allegedly wrote prescriptions in different names to give mothers drugs - also performing surgery on one of the women.
Pridgeon has been charged with conspiracy to defeat justice, dealing in the proceeds of crime and aid and abet child stealing, and will face court on Thursday.
The operation allegedly spanned across the country, from Perth to New South Wales.
The children were allegedly taken after marriage breakdowns or custody battles - often contravening Family Court orders - with the mothers claiming their partners were paedophiles
The arrests came after a two-year operation in which Pidgeon's yacht was raided by police.
Ten search warrants were carried out in Grafton and Dubbo in NSW, in Perth and in Townsville, Queensland.
Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Debbie Platz said the group were 'organised and well-resourced'.
'The actions of this group do not protect children. What it does is potentially endanger the safety and wellbeing of them,' she said.
'During this two-year investigation, 10 missing children have been safely located in the custody of a parent who has abducted them. Five of these are believed to be linked to this group of people. Under queensland legislation it is a crime
Police allege O'Dea (pictured in red shirt) was given the job of driving around Australia for days at a time to pick up women and their children
'We believe this group has sought assistance from other people – some who may be unaware of their involvement in criminal activity – so we are urging anyone with any knowledge about these activities to come forward to the AFP.'
AFP lead investigator Sergeant Darren Williamson said the alleged syndicate acted in a 'clandestine' way.
'So if parents and children went into hiding, (Pridgeon) provided his vehicle. He provided a car to move these people around the country,' Williamson said.
'He's also given them provisions (like) food (and) medical support and everything suggests so far… that it was off the books.'
