A former childcare worker in Queensland, Australia, was found guilty of over 300 sex offences against 73 young girls. The case highlights concerns about past failures to investigate allegations of child abuse and the need for improved police responses.
Ashley Griffith was found guilty of more than 300 sex offences committed against 73 young girls while he was employed at childcare centres in Queensland between 2003 and 2022. He was arrested in 2022 when police searched his Gold Coast home and found more than 4,000 child abuse images and videos on his devices documenting most of his offending. A Brisbane mother believed her son was also a victim of Griffith, saying she reported allegations to police in 2009 but no investigation was launched.
“We tried so many years ago to make it known that Ashley Griffith is a dangerous paedophile – no one listened, no one cared,” the woman said in a statement to Nine Network’s A Current Affair.The mother said her son disclosed to her in 2009 that Griffith had abused him two years earlier at a childcare centre.The mother took her son to the police station where she hoped the allegations would be taken seriously but claimed that was “far from the reality”. “My four-year-old son was placed in a room with two police officers. They did not build rapport with him, and he did not talk about anything of significance to police that would cause concern in those few brief minutes,” she said. “We were then asked very few questions and advised that there was nothing to warrant further investigation, and it was over.The mother claimed the allegations were not raised with the childcare centre, and when she called another police station to alert authorities of her concerns, they dismissed it as a “rough nappy change”.Queensland police’s acting assistant commissioner, Rhys Wildman, confirmed the matter had been referred to the Ethical Standards Command for an overview.“From the police perspective, it’s just been requested that an independent area look at that review to make sure that everything was done correctl
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