Kylie Maybury killer Gregory Keith Davies sexually attacked many other children
KYLIE Maybury killer Gregory Keith Davies, who is due to be sentenced in the Supreme Court on Thursday, sexually attacked many other children in the years before and after the 1984 murder.
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PAEDOPHILE and killer Gregory Keith Davies held “group sessions” where he molested several children at a time in a caravan at his family home.
Davies is due to be sentenced in the Supreme Court on Thursday, after admitting to the kidnap, rape and murder of Kylie Maybury, 6, in 1984.
One of Davies’ victims recently told the Herald Sun she had been abused during some of his perverted caravan parties, and witnessed him “fiddling” with other young girls.
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“I would love to know where that caravan is now because it could contain evidence as I wouldn’t be surprised if that was where he took Kylie,” she said.
Jane, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, said she was just five when Davies began sexually assaulting her in 1980 — four years before he murdered Kylie.
The sexual assaults went on over four years. The first of many was in the back seat of a moving car as her unsuspecting parents sat in the front.
“He was that cunning and brazen. He was prepared to do it under the noses of my mother and father, who trusted him” Jane said.
She said she still kept in touch with some of Davies’ other victims. Davies had regular and easy access to all the girls he molested.
Jane said news reports about Kylie’s murder eventually led four of his victims to tell their parents that Davies had sexually assaulted them.
“When Kylie was killed, not long after, one of the girls saw a newspaper article about it,” she said.
“She asked her mum, ‘What would you do if someone did that to me?’
“This prompted her mother to ask if something had happened to her. Then her mother and aunty asked the rest of their siblings if anything had happened to them.
“This involved two families and four victims. They went to the police station to tell them about the girls.
“Police said if they pressed charges they would have to go to court, and advised them not to do so, as the interrogation from the defence would be too much for the girls to cope with.
“So they decided not to press charges.
“He then went on to commit other sexual assaults against other children that could have been avoided if he had been taken to court when police were first notified.”
Jane said she hadn’t told her parents what Davies had done to her until 1996.
Her father had been told by another victim what Davies had been doing.
“He didn’t believe her so my dad brought me in and told me what the other victim had said,” Jane said.
“Dad said to me, ‘OK, did this happen?’ and I said ‘yes it did’.
“An incident with Davies had happened when I was with the other victim, at the caravan.”
Other victims were identified after further investigations were conducted.
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Police charged Davies with sexually assaulting Jane and five others, and he was jailed in 1996 for 2½ years.
“But he only did about 16 months,” Jane said.
“I cried that day when I found out he got out after just 16 months for what he did to me and the other child victims. He ruins our lives and goes to jail for 16 months — that’s just not right.
“He sexually abused me and five other children, and gets a slap on the wrist.
“That’s not justice. It’s a joke, a sick joke.
Jane said she was nine when she finally realised what Davies had been doing to her since she was five was wrong.
“I was alone with him one day and he undid his pants and started towards me,” she said.
“I knew by then that this wasn’t right so I told him I had to go to the toilet and I ran out the back door.
“The next minute I saw him walking down the driveway and he got in his car and drove away and I haven’t seen him since — that was about 35 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday.”
“Up until that day I ran away I was too young to realise what he was doing was wrong.
“When you are five you just do what adults tell you, you don’t ask questions.
“It wasn’t always just one on one with him; it was sometimes a group thing, with a few children at once.
“You would have all the parents inside the house and all the kids in his caravan.
“It started innocently enough with him playing a game like him being a doctor and us the patients and he would then molest us girls.
Jane said none of the children said anything when it was happening.
“We were just kids. What do you say? How do you say it? What do you say to your parents? It was just too hard to raise it so we didn’t,” she said.
“His behaviour was swept under the carpet by some in his family; they knew what he was doing by didn’t report him.
“I’ve been told by older members of the Davies family that he used to take off and go for long drives by himself and he was away for days or weeks at a time.
“Nobody knew where he went or what he was doing, so God knows what other offences he committed while he was away.”
Jane said almost every member of Davies’ family turned their back on him once they knew what he had been doing.
“The whole way through I have felt anger towards him,” she said.
“For a while I thought to get over it that I had to forgive him to help me heal.
“Well I’ve now reached a point where I know I don’t have to forgive him and I know I didn’t do anything wrong. I’ve learned to live with it.
“I can’t wait for the day he dies. I am going to go there and I’m going to spit on his grave.”
Jane said she had wracked her brain thinking of what message she could send to Kylie’s mother Julie Maybury.
“But I’m just lost for words, there’s probably no words to say to her besides to say I wish it hadn’t happened,” she said.
“I would like to say to her that I wish somebody had reported what he was doing to me and other children before he killed Kylie.
“Sadly that didn’t happen.”