Yolanda Borucki, who reported notorious paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith, faced charges for accessing confidential records. Magistrate Kerrie O’Callaghan found her not guilty, stating the prosecution failed to prove she used a work computer to send emails.
A childcare worker who tipped authorities off about one of Australia's worst paedophiles has been found not guilty and had charges dismissed against her for accessing confidential records. Yolanda Borucki, 59, was charged with using a restricted computer service and causing more than $5000 in detriment to her former employer. She is the former colleague of Queensland childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith, 45, who was sentenced to life behind bars in November over 1600 child abuse offences.
Yolanda Borucki had allegedly accessed confidential records on children from her Brisbane home and sent them to a Channel Nine reporter.Borucki and Griffith worked at the same childcare centre in 2021 and she assisted in reporting him to authorities that year. The charge related to Borucki allegedly accessing confidential records on children at a centre on August 3 from her home in Brisbane and sending them to a reporter at the Nine Network’sBorucki had previously appeared on the program and said she had notified authorities almost two years previously in relation to Griffith’s inappropriate behaviour towards young children.On Friday Magistrate Kerrie O’Callaghan found Borucki not guilty and dismissed the charges because it had not been proven beyond reasonable doubt that she used a work computer to send the emails.“There is no evidence of communication about policy and the policy documents themselves have no connection to the employees’ use of their computer,” the magistrate told the court.“Accordingly, even if I was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that she used the computer to send the emails, I’m not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the use was without consent of the controller.”A Current Affair O’Callaghan also found the prosecution failed to prove Borucki did not have permission to send the emails or that it would cause harm. Prosecutors argued that in disclosing the information Borucki caused psychological harm to relevant familie
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