A former senior NSW public servant, who confessed to being a paedophile, has been granted a suppression order to stop being named in the media for 2 years by NSW Magistrate Jennifer Price.
By itself it is scandalous. But when put together with other similar judicial judgments it shows that a paedophile protection racket by judges is continuing as a national scandal.
The SMH reported (9/10/24):
A man who held senior posts in the NSW government and prominent think tanks has confessed to being a paedophile after officers stopped him at Sydney airport and searched his phone.
The man cannot be named, however, after he convinced a court to suppress his identity because of his mental health.
Australian Border Force stopped the man, who is in his 40s, as he passed through Sydney’s international airport returning from the United Kingdom in August 2023.
The officers searched his phone and found child abuse material stored on the device.
The man was ordered to face court in February this year, but flew under the radar until Tuesday when he appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court to enter a plea.
The man pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing or controlling child abuse material, before Magistrate Jennifer Price.
Price concluded that a link could be made between the paedophile’s mental health and potential publicity. (Click here to read more)
He will be sentenced later this year.
Everyone who is jailed and potentially has media report on it could argue that “a link could be made between” their “mental health and potential publicity”. For Magistrate Jennifer Price to use that as justification for a 2-year suppression order is disgraceful and she should not be a magistrate.
If the average person applied for a suppression order they would be told that Australia has an open justice system, and they will have to deal with it like everyone else.
Why would anyone protect a paedophile ….children are at risk they are used in the porn he had on his phone this magistrate does not get it