Vikram Gopinath leaving the Melbourne County Court yesterday. He is a police officer who has pleaded guilty to try to groom a child in his care in Mildura in January 2017. Picture: The Age/Luis Enrique AscuiVIKRAM Gopinath was working as a Senior Constable at Mildura Police Station when he met and began sending explicit messages to a 16-year-old girl who was in state care.
Gopinath, 29, was charged with misconduct in a public office and attempting to procure a child aged 16 or 17 under his care for sexual penetration in January, and this week entered a guilty plea at Melbourne’s County Court.
Retired York police officer who pleaded guilty to child sex offences gets two years in prison
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- Created: Friday, 10 November 2017 10:49
- Written by Emma McIntosh - The Star
A retired York Regional Police officer was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday. Donald Clark, 67, pled guilty last week to one count of sexual exploitation and sexual interference, both charges related to the sexual abuse of children.
Clark was a York police officer between 1974 and 2006, and had a part-time role driving York police vehicles to garages for repairs from 2007 until his arrest in Nov. 2015.
“York Regional Police will not tolerate the victimization of members of our community,” said York police Chief Eric Jolliffe in a press release Friday.
North-West police officer charged with decades old sex offence
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- Created: Friday, 11 January 2019 21:44
- Written by Sandy Powell - The Advocate.com.au
A NORTH-WEST police officer has been charged with maintaining a sexual relationship with a young person.
The offence is alleged to have occurred over a period between 1996 and 1998, prior to the 42-year-old joining Tasmania Police.
The officer has been suspended from duty and has been summoned to appear in the Launceston Magistrates Court at a later date.
Dozens of NSW Police Officers charged with assault and sexual offences
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- Created: Saturday, 29 December 2018 21:38
- Written by Sonia Hickey - Sydney Criminal Lawyers
Police offers swear an oath to uphold and enforce the law, but what happens when officers themselves are themselves charged with violent of sexual offences?
It has been reported that since October 2016, 30 New South Wales police officers have been charged with offences ranging from reckless damage and common assault through to child sex offences.
Domestic violence-related charges have been laid against 17 officers in our state since February 2017 – ranging from stalking and intimidation, to assault occasioning bodily harm, choking, and sexual assault.
Former Mandurah police sergeant pleads guilty to child sex charges
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- Created: Wednesday, 08 May 2019 22:39
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A former Mandurah police sergeant will be sentenced later this year after he pleaded guilty to five child sex offences.
Andrew James Maher, 42, was charged with two counts of exposing a child under 13 years of age to indecent matter, and three counts of using electronic communication with intent to expose a person under 16 years of age to indecent matter.
Police officer who taught cyber safety in schools charged with child sex offences
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- Created: Friday, 26 October 2018 20:42
- Written by Lucy Cormack - Sydney Morning Herald
A senior NSW police officer who gave cyber safety lectures as a youth liaison officer in schools around western and southern Sydney has been refused bail over charges of multiple child sex offences, spanning a period of more than 10 years.
Senior Constable Dean Michael Perkins, 43, from Mount Druitt Area Command has been suspended since his arrest shortly before 4pm on Thursday.
He was arrested by detectives from the Professional Standards Command assisted by the State Crime Command’s Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad.
Fermanagh ‘paedophile ring’: PSNI pledges to investigate every allegation
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- Created: Friday, 19 April 2019 21:05
- Written by Rodney Edwards - Irish Times
Child protection branch boss says a historical abuse inquiry in the county is a ‘priority’
Det Chief Supt Paula Hilman has pledged to review cases relating to a suspected paedophile ring in Enniskillen after several victims came forward to tell their stories in recent weeks.
The abuse was carried out by bus driver David Sullivan, who was found murdered in 1998, while allegations have been made against a series of other men, most of whom are still alive.
Each of the cases that were reported to police during that time were later dropped after the Public Prosecution Service decided there was “insufficient evidence” to justify a prosecution.
Now Det Chief Supt Hilman has said she will review new information and speak to new witnesses, which could provide police with enough evidence to seek prosecutions.
“Our team covering Fermanagh will look at this, but I, along with my deputy, will personally look at the resources that I need to put to this to revisit and carry out investigations,” she said.
Newspaper campaign
The PSNI pledge follows a long-running campaign by Fermanagh local newspaper the Impartial Reporter focusing on historical child sex abuse in the county.
Speaking to the Enniskillen-based newspaper, Det Supt Hilman said: “This has become a priority for us, for me, and for the PSNI. We are listening and we will investigate these cases.”
A specialist team of detectives will now examine the existing investigation filed and any new information that has been recently received, and will speak to new witnesses in a bid to seek prosecutions.
“There have been some cases reported very recently where convictions have happened for historical child sexual abuse where detectives in public protection branch revisited and we had somebody prosecuted very quickly.
“We did get a prosecution from looking back at what we knew and new information coming to light. We will do the same again; we will sit with each victim,” she said.
Sullivan’s abuse
David Sullivan abused schoolboys on his bus up until his murder in 1998. One of his victims came forward last week to reveal how the bus driver had abused him 12 times.
The police have yet to properly outline what the organisation knew about the sexual predator and why he was never prosecuted for the litany of abuse he carried out in Co Fermanagh.
“I am limited at what I can say about the investigation into David Sullivan,” Det Supt Hilman said. “If victims are willing to come forward, we will listen to what they say and revisit that.”
“I can understand victims who have come forward if they feel let down or disappointed, but again we need to look at the evidence, [at] what was the nature of the investigation.
“Of course we will take action. We will look at that in the context of timelines to see who knew what and where and when. That will form part of an investigation to review and revisit these cases. We will do that,” she said.
Source : https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/fermanagh-paedophile-ring-psni-pledges-to-investigate-every-allegation-1.3865020?mode=amp
VIP paedophile ring accuser tells his trial he stands by his claims
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- Created: Thursday, 04 July 2019 20:50
- Written by Simon Murphy - The Guardian UK
Carl Beech again alleges former PM Edward Heath and Jimmy Savile were part of abuse gang.
Carl Beech, 51, is alleged to have falsely claimed he was among the victims of a group of establishment men, including senior politicians and military figures, who raped, kidnapped and murdered boys in the late 1970s and early 80s.
Children's homes were 'supply line' for paedophiles, says ex-minister
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- Created: Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:40
- Written by Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour - UK Guardian
Lord Warner says an inquiry he conducted in 1992 showed how children's homes were targeted by powerful people.
Powerful people in the 1980s targeted children's homes that served as a "supply line" for paedophiles, a former health minister has claimed.
As a former child protection manager warned that a "powerful elite" of at least 20 prominent figures carried out the "worst form of abuse", the former health minister Lord Warner described the sexual abuse of children as a "power drive".
Victorian priest convicted of sexual abuse has suffered enough, his lawyer says
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- Created: Monday, 08 July 2019 15:05
- Written by Karen Sweeney - AAP
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