Predatory Podcast: list of paedophiles, child sex offenders jailed abroad

A shocking number of Australians are in jail overseas after being charged with child sex offences. See the horrifying list.

The Australian Federal Police helped save at least 46 children from international paedophiles in the past year — and another 33 back home.

High-end artificial intelligence tools are now being developed by the federal agency to combat child exploitation that continues to grow despite Australia’s most well-known predators remaining behind bars around the world.

A total of 221 people were charged with 1746 child abuse-related offences as a result of “Operation Molto” in the 2021-22 year, according to the AFP.

Of the human exploitation crimes, the AFP disrupted internationally from its posts in Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Mexico City, the vast majority (87 per cent) were related to online child sexual exploitation.

These are the Australians that remain locked up as a result of the global effort to crack down on paedophiles and their international rings of child abuse and porn.

Peter Gerard Scully – The Philippines

Jailed paedophile Peter Gerard Scully, 59, was sentenced to an additional 129 years in the Philippines for raping a baby and girl whose bodies were found buried under his home. Considered one of the world’s most depraved child traffickers and rapists, the former Melbourne businessman fled Australia in 2011 before being arrested in 2015 in Mindanao. The Philippines is an epicentre of child sex exploitation due to the country’s poverty, internet connectivity and fluency in English. Scully’s girlfriend, Lovely Margallo, was sentenced to 126 years in jail. Two others were given sentences of more than nine years. The videos were allegedly sold to customers in Germany, the United States and Brazil.

Peter Gerard Scully. Picture: AFP

Dustin Linklater – Indonesia

The former restaurant worker from Darwin was jailed for seven years for sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy in Indonesia in 2019. He was found guilty of luring the boy from a waterpark and paying him the equivalent of $11 for oral sex. The boy went home and told his parents, with medical exams finding that the boy suffered significant swelling to his internal organs. Chief judge Nova Flory Bunda said Linklater “damaged the child’s future”. “The defendant committed tricks, carried out a series of lies and persuaded a child to commit obscene acts,” Mr Bunda said. While the maximum sentence for the crime was 15 years behind bars, Linklater was sentenced to seven years.”

Dustin Linklater at Banyuwangi District Court in East Java, Indonesia.

Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis – Indonesia

The Victorian man described as “Bali’s worst paedophile” was sentenced in 2016 to 15 years in an Indonesian jail for grooming and sexually abusing girls aged between seven and 17. At his trial, he denied being a paedophile because he had paid “generously”. He tested positive for Covid in 2020 at the age of 74, when he expected he would die in Bali’s Kerobokan prison despite having his sentence occasionally reduced for good behaviour.

Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis in a holding cell. Picture: AFP

Mark Newton and Peter Truong- United States

Queensland’s notorious paedophile couple ran an international child sex abuse ring with the “son” they bought from Russia for $8000. They were convicted of offering the child for sex with at least eight men in the US, France and Germany when he was aged between two and six years old. Newton and Truong were sentenced to 40 and 30 years respectively. The couple, from Cairns, was planning to buy a second child from a Malaysian surrogate for $100,000 before they were arrested in Los Angeles in 2011.

Australian paedophile Peter Truong, 36, was sentenced to 30 years' jail and his long-time American partner, Mark Newton, 42, was jailed for 40 years.

Boris Kunsevitsky – Singapore

A serial paedophile who abused children across southeast Asia, Boris Kunsevitsky was sentenced to 35 years in prison in Australia after he was arrested during a 2017 visit from his home in Singapore. He pleaded guilty in 2020 to sexually abusing 44 children over 16 years.

Thirty-six of his victims were aged between 10 and 15 years old, another eight were 16 or 17. Of the victims, 37 were Filipino, five Singaporean, one was Indonesian, and one was Australian. He was the second Australian to be sentenced to a significant amount of time in jail in Australia for the sexual exploitation of children overseas.

Melbourne father Boris Kunsevitsky.

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