CrimePsych

In April of this year a pedophile that preyed on his common law partner’s children as well as his own was sentenced to 18 years with a non-parole period of 13 years in what the presiding judge referred to as ‘shocking and appalling’ sexual offences.

Courtesy of Australia’s extremely tight legislation when it comes to the publication of names in cases involving children (a good thing for the children involved and lucky for the defendant in these cases as i would love to ‘name and shame’ them) i have been unable to obtain anything other than the perpetrator’s initials (BR). What follows are the situations for which the defendant has now been tried, convicted and sentenced – and an ample sentence at that.

While reading this post, please keep in mind i have done my best to report the situations that occurred, staying true to the story, but this may make a lot of the content here ‘graphic’ depending on what you are used to. I read a lot of books, research papers and court transcripts etc so this is fairly mild stuff for me (although disgusting) but others out there might not find the following stories bearable.

In total five unfortunate children were involved in this case; 1 of whom is female and now aged eleven years old. The other 4 were male and are now aged 10, 9, 6 and 3. What makes this more disturbing is that that makes the youngest only 2 years old at the time of the offences being committed!

Firstly, some time during the first half of 2006 the defendant, BR, removed the clothing of the 11 year old girl while her mother was either at work or asleep and proceeded to rape her – although it was not a violent rape like so many others that are reported in our societies today it was still a forceful act that the young girl felt obligated to. What i mean by that is she did not believe she had a choice and was too afraid to say ‘no’.

The next two offences were also perpetrated against this poor girl and involved not only BR but her half-brother who is referred to in the court records as WH. WH had come over to the defendants house for a visit when the accused asked WH what he would do if LH, the female, were to ‘suck him off’. The defendant then directed the girl to do just that – but to himself, not the half-brother – which she complied with.

A few months later, again when the half-brother had come over for a visit, the defendant showed every child in the house a pornographic film and they masturbated. Again the defendant requested that LH (the girl) perform oral sex on him, which she again complied with.

At the same time that these offences were committed a number of others were also committed that resulted in additional charges being laid. The defendant took the girl, then aged 10, into her mother’s bedroom where he removed her pants, spread her legs and once again raped her. At some stage during this disgusting act the younger brothers of the girl entered the room and the accused showed them where ‘a man puts his penis’ before directing one of the boys, aged five at the time, to touch his sisters vagina.

A further act of depravity again occurred sometime in late 2007 when the accused picked up all the children from school, except for his own son who was aged 2 at the time. Upon returning home, when all the children began heading for their bedrooms, the defendant stood in the hallway blocking their planned route before pulling down his pants and exposing his genitals to them. A comment along the lines of you have to ‘suck to pass’ was made with which every child complied, even the defendants own 2 year old son, who only complied on being told it was ‘just a sausage’.

Thankfully this was the end of the events that transpired – the eleven year old girl reported the heinous acts to her aunt and a police investigation was carried out. That being said the damage, both physical and mental, had already been inflicted on these poor children. According to victim impact statements:

His mother pointed out that he appears very confused about his own sexuality as a result of the offences. He has changed his appearance as a result and has developed certain problems in sleeping. He himself described himself as being sad about what happened and having changed a lot and suffering from nightmares. He also noted that he has had to change schools.

Another statement from the boy now aged ten:

He described himself as being really scared and unsure what was going on when BR was committing these offences. He thought he was like a proper father until it started happening. He said he has changed a lot. People found out at school and he has had to change schools. This has resulted in a disruption to his life. He has nightmares, he feels like there is evil in his room. He feels faint and sick when he gets pictures in his mind about what BR did to him. He gets startled when he is touched by people unexpectedly.

And finally a segment of a victim impact statement regarding the defendants own son (as observed by his mother and GP):

She observed that what occurred had a huge impact upon the boy. She said his GP had noticed that his behaviour had regressed to being more like a two year old than a three year old. He had nightmares and would wake up screaming. He would kick his mother whilst sleeping in the bed and throw himself around yelling out “No, no, no” in his sleep. As it happens he was very close to his own father, the offender. The boy will not try new foods that the offender did not feed him.

Thankfully for the community this particular individual is not eligible for parole until December 2020. Anybody that has any first hand info regarding this case and individual i would love to gain some of your insight as i would like to conduct a case study on the psychology behind these types of offenders.

For those of you who believe your children or somebody elses children are being exploited or abused then please use the poster image below the menu system on the left to report it.