Category: Sexual Violence

Hamish Alexander Edward Tait identified as Sydney’s worst alleged daycare paedophile | SMH

A Sydney day care worker facing more than 320 charges over his alleged abuse of 150 children can now be identified after this masthead and police fought to lift a year-long gag order over his name.

Hamish Alexander Edward Tait, 35, was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in July 2025 and charged with using children to make abuse material, but his name has never been made public.

Tait had come onto the radar of authorities after allegedly uploading one of his recordings to a cloud server.

Investigators ultimately seized approximately 2.5 million files from his electronic devices. Operation Moonbi has since discovered 158 alleged child victims in the files.

Of that number, 136 children have been identified and 22 are unidentified, despite the tireless work by victim identification teams.

The AFP on Friday laid an additional 137 charges against Tait. They include producing child abuse material, filming a person in a private act and sexual touching – which relates to allegedly posing the children to photograph them.

Tait is now facing 329 charges in total, making him Australia’s most prolific alleged abuser in a day care setting. The scale of the alleged offending means that if found guilty, he will have abused more children than any other childcare worker in the country’s history.

The AFP has information suggesting Tait worked at 62 centres through his career, but the alleged abuse has only been identified at 10. Tait’s alleged victims, spoken to by investigators, are located across Australia and the United Kingdom.

Tait, this masthead can now reveal, had worked in the industry for years at a large franchise called Fit Kidz, which has branches across Sydney’s north-west.

He described himself as a “founder/facilitator and educator” of Fit Kidz at the service in one online profile.

Tait’s online resume said that from 2019 he went on to become the “owner-operator” of Wild Earthlings, a business which took children on bushwalks around Sydney.

Soon after Tait’s arrest, almost all signs of him were scrubbed from the social pages of Fit Kidz and other learning centres, while his Wild Earthlings site was deactivated, along with all private social pages.

The AFP set up a similar contact point after asking a court to lift a suppression order over confessed childcare paedophile David James, to identify the centres in which he had worked.

This masthead was in that case also aware of James’ identity and fought to have the order lifted only once investigators had reached out to directly impacted parents.

Source: Hamish Alexander Edward Tait identified as Sydney’s worst alleged daycare paedophile

Child abuser who preyed on orphans housed at Christian Brothers property | Royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse | The Guardian

Christian Brothers properties have been used to house convicted child sexual abuse offenders, including one brother who preyed on orphans and another who was kept in teaching positions for almost three decades after senior officials became aware of his offending.

The Christian Brothers prompted fury from survivors last month when it declared it was about to go broke, and could no longer afford to meet their claims in court.

Last week, the Guardian revealed that the order had kept nine convicted child abusers as brothers within its order, arguing there was a “Gospel imperative” to “care for all Brothers” and “the needy”, according to court documents.

The documents also show the Christian Brothers’ constitution requires it to provide financial support to current brothers, including by covering housing costs, rates, electricity, gas and water bills, health insurance, reimbursement for medical, dental and physiotherapy, a “Community Living Allowance” of $1,200 per month, the provision of vehicles and associated costs, money for spiritual development, including retreats, as well as some food and entertainment expenses.

Source: Child abuser who preyed on orphans housed at Christian Brothers property | Royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse | The Guardian

The human cost of the Christian Brothers’ asset shifting | The Saturday Paper

Late on Monday, June 22, 2026, plaintiff law firms representing victims of institutional child sex crimes were invited to an urgent online meeting. At the meeting, the legal representatives of the Christian Brothers, Gilbert + Tobin, read out prepared statements. The information can be condensed into fairly simple language: the Christian Brothers had gone broke.

For how long did the Christian Brothers know they were “going broke” while continuing to settle claims in “good faith”?

The Christian Brothers exist in several forms. There is the unincorporated Congregation of the Christian Brothers (Oceania Province), a non-government organisation. They also exist in the form of a body corporate, the Trustees of the Christian Brothers, and multiple associated entities.

The trustees owned and managed all Christian Brothers schools until 2007, when they set up Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) for the purpose of owning, conducting and managing these educational facilities.

In January 2013, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was established by then prime minister Julia Gillard. A month later, EREA was incorporated as a body corporate with seven council members appointed by the Provincial of the Christian Brothers. The council members became the trustees of this newly formed EREA Trust.

A few months later still, the multiple entities of the Christian Brothers and EREA entered into a master agreement to transfer the Christian Brothers’ properties to EREA. This was for a peppercorn consideration. The Christian Brothers excluded a copy of this master agreement from the documents before the court.

The total property, land and equipment value of $2.5 billion was assessed at cost – that is, at book value. The true market value now is considerably higher.

So, the Christian Brothers tell us they have no money and EREA tell us they have nothing to do with the Christian Brothers. Divine magic.

At least 2500 children are estimated to have been raped and assaulted by Christian Brothers. These people have suffered for decades with drugs and alcohol, suicide attempts and shattered lives. That is, if they survived at all. Yet the Christian Brothers continue to treat them with contempt.

If Edmund Rice Education Australia looks, acts, sounds and smells like the Christian Brothers, it is the Christian Brothers – and the Christian Brothers must pay.

Source: The human cost of the Christian Brothers’ asset shifting | The Saturday Paper

Breaking: NT Children’s Commissioner walks away, ci… | National Indigenous Times

The Northern Territory’s Children’s Commissioner has resigned in a bombshell announcement, citing concerns about the Territory Government’s approach to governance, transparency and child protection reform.

Shahleena Musk — a Larrakia woman and former crown prosecutor — has been outspoken in her criticism of multiple Northern Territory governments’ policies on child protection and youth incarceration, citing the impact policies have on some of the most vulnerable children in the country.

On Thursday afternoon, she said the decision to resign had not been made lightly. Instead, she argued that it reflected a growing concern about the “current environment for independent oversight, evidence-based policy development and transparent decision-making in the Northern Territory”.

“In particular, I have been unable to support the Northern Territory Government’s approach to substantial and wide-reaching changes to child protection laws,” she said.

“In my view, reforms of this significance must be grounded in evidence, informed by those with frontline experience, and developed through genuine consultation with experts, independent institutions and frontline organisations established to protect children and promote accountability.

“I have been concerned by the effective sidelining of myself as the Children’s Commissioner in the development of these reforms. In taking on this role I swore an oath to fulfil the mandate, including all functions and responsibilities set out in the Children’s Commissioner Act 2013.

Source: Breaking: NT Children’s Commissioner walks away, ci… | National Indigenous Times

The Pedophilic Roots of Gender Identity

My name is Genevieve Gluck and I am the co-founder of Reduxx, a news platform that I launched with my partner and editor Anna Slatz in January 2022. Anna was expected to be here today, but unfortunately had to step back due to illness.

Since then, we’ve published over 1,800 articles – hundreds of which were exclusives that made international waves and directly promoted change. We’ve been cited in Supreme Court cases, prompted the resignation of politicians and even Olympic officials, been translated into multiple different languages, and worked with women and families all over the world to publish their stories about the damage gender ideology has wrought on them.Over the past four years, we have addressed a variety of issues, including male participation in female sports, the influence of pornography on gender identity practices, the abuses of female inmates by trans-identifying male inmates, and many instances of trans-identifying men filing lawsuits against women or facilities in an attempt to force compliance with their demands.

In addition, we have published exclusive reports exposing connections between the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and both pro-pedophile academics and convicted pedophiles.

[Ed: Please go to the source to read the entirety of this important article.]

Source: The Pedophilic Roots of Gender Identity

Victim-survivors of alleged sexual abuse speak out on legal impact of receiving EMDR therapy – ABC News

A woman who reported alleged sexual abuse to Queensland Police says it was “retraumatising” to learn the investigation would not proceed because she had undergone eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.

In EMDR therapy, a person is asked to recall a traumatic memory while engaging in another task.

Queensland DPP guidelines refer to EMDR as a form of hypnosis or regression therapy and provide strict conditions in which it must be performed.

Source: Victim-survivors of alleged sexual abuse speak out on legal impact of receiving EMDR therapy – ABC News

EXCLUSIVE: Pedophile, Rapist, and Murderer Are Behind Oregon Lawsuit Demanding Transfer of Trans-Identified Male Inmates to Women’s Prisons – Reduxx

The class-action lawsuit brought against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) demanding to house all trans-identified male inmates in women’s prisons was brought by a pedophile, a rapist, and a domestic abuser who murdered his girlfriend, Reduxx can reveal. At the end of April, a federal judge ordered the ODOC to reassess its policies and house trans-identified males on the basis of their “gender identity” in a sweeping injunction.

Inmate “J.F.” is Jessica Anne Marie Foust, previously known as John Jay Chapman. He has been designated as a “vulnerable” inmate by the ODOC, and asserts that he is “a legal female.”

In 2008, Chapman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping a developmentally disabled woman who resided at an adult foster home in Gresham, Oregon, managed by his mother. While incarcerated, Chapman was convicted on four counts of assaulting a correctional officer. Three years later, in 2015, he began to identify as transgender.

The class action suit also includes the experiences of inmates identified as “Z.Z.” and “L.B.” Reduxx can identify Z.Z. and L.B. as “Zera Lola Zombie” and “Lillithia Moon Blood-Gaia.”

Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, is a violent trans-identified male who is classified as a “female” inmate in the Oregon inmate directory and is housed in women’s prison Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF). He is serving a 35-year sentence for charges including the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Samantha Brown. In 2014, Brown was beaten to death, her corpse left in the trailer home she and Zombie shared. While the motive for the crime was never made clear, Brown was survived by four young children.

“Lillithia Moon Blood-gaia”, identified in the suit as “L.B.”, was previously known as Nova June Gaia and Joseph Daniel Neilson. Gaia is a convicted pedophile who was first arrested in 2018 at a property in Portland, Oregon after being reported for sexually assaulting a child he was babysitting. The exact nature of the relationship between Gaia and the victim is being withheld by Reduxx for the purposes of protecting the child’s identity and safety.

When placed in custody, Gaia’s legal sex was male and he had a full beard. But despite there being no indication Gaia identified as transgender prior to his arrest, in July of 2019, while awaiting sentencing, Gaia submitted an inquiry to his jail asking when he would be transferred to Coffee Creek — Oregon’s only women’s prison.

Source: EXCLUSIVE: Pedophile, Rapist, and Murderer Are Behind Oregon Lawsuit Demanding Transfer of Trans-Identified Male Inmates to Women’s Prisons – Reduxx

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY – Signing ePetition – Establishment of a National Working with Children Check

We, the undersigned, draw to the attention of the House the urgent need for a fully nationalised Working With Children Check (WWCC).

Progress on this reform has stalled due to the Standing Council of Attorneys-General, having been unable to agree on a single, unified set of rules. As a result, states and territories continue to operate under separate laws. This creates inconsistencies across jurisdictions and allows individuals to cross borders and commit crimes. These gaps place children at risk and must be addressed.

[Ed: Go to source to sign petition].

Source: LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY – Signing ePetition – Establishment of a National Working with Children Check

Babies need women | Jean Hatchet | The Critic Magazine

In their lifetime not all women have babies, not all can, and not all want to. Yet every person who gives birth is a woman and all mothers are female. Feminists in the UK fought very hard for reproductive rights, and we defend them fiercely just as we do the right to retain the word “woman” and “mother” exclusively for female people. 

You can’t and shouldn’t force women to be mothers, then, but at the same time men should not be allowed to completely replace women in the parenting of children, whether that is by adoption or surrogacy. Given the statistics on male violence against children, it simply isn’t safe for the child — and especially for babies — to be raised exclusively by male strangers.

This week saw the horrendously distressing court case of Baby Preston. Preston Davey was 13 months old when he was brutally murdered after serious sexual and physical cruelty, by two men who were allowed to adopt him.  

There are on average 63 child homicides a year. Infants under 1 are over-represented in statistics, accounting for between 19 and 20 homicides each year. Most of these are committed by a parent or step-parent, and this murderer is most often a male.  Over 90 evident of all homicides in the UK are committed by men. It is statistically evident that it is significantly safer to place a child in a home with a woman or multiple women.

The sexual risk to children from men makes this even more necessary. Last year a sensational revelation from Gavin Thomas, the President of the Police Chiefs Association was that there are so many child sexual offenders that it would be impossible to jail them all and he called for “softer measures”. Around 98 per cent of child sexual offenders are male. The National Crime Agency meanwhile revealed that it is possible that 750,000 men are interested in sex with children.

A 72-year-old widowed man was granted permission in Scotland to become a parent to a surrogate child. The question anyone evaluating his suitability needed to ask is why he wanted this? His answer could never have been sufficient to make it primarily about the benefit to the child. Men like this make such a demand due to their own selfish needs — and in some cases those “needs” will be very much against the interests and safety of the child. 

As Sanchez Manning discovered via FOI, since it became legal 43 men over 60 have applied to become the parent of a child born to a surrogate mother. These men are taking babies from women and some of these men will be a sexual and physical risk to those babies. It is an evil practice and governments are morally and ethically empty in allowing it to proliferate. 

Ian Watkins targeted and seduced women with babies in order to be able to rape the infant. He was sentenced to 35 years for some of the most hideous crimes against very young children and few shed a tear when he was in prison killed last year. Men with depraved sexual needs will do whatever is available to ensure those needs are met whether it is grooming or adopting. 

Gay men are not any less risky than straight men, despite a willingness by some diversity and inclusion devotees to suggest otherwise. They are still men. For this reason, it is crucial that babies and young children are never adopted into homes where there are only men. It is vital that the government makes moves to ban surrogacy altogether. No one should be buying children or renting women’s wombs (including women and not even if those women are famous).

Source: Babies need women | Jean Hatchet | The Critic Magazine

Final Report | National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse

Findings relating to Family Court, police and child protection responses are based on a review of 65 published family law cases and qualitative interviews with practitioners and survivors.

Domestic violence in the home somewhat increases the risk of co-occurring child sexual abuse; however, child sexual abuse in the home significantly increases the risk of co-occurring domestic violence.
Girls are more likely to experience co-occurring child sexual abuse and domestic violence than boys.

In the majority of cases (90.7%), initial allegations of abuse were made by the mother. In half of these instances, the child ultimately came to live primarily with their mother, and in the other half, with their father.

In 40% of cases, one or both parties were self-represented for some or all of the proceedings. Just over a quarter (27.1%) of matters were case managed by the Magellan List, which is designed expedite matters that involve (or are suspected to involve) allegations of child abuse.

The majority of cases involved an Independent Children’s Lawyer (ICL). In our study, the ICL supported the account of:
the accused parent (usually a father) in 66.7% of cases
the accusing parent (usually a mother) in 23.8% of cases

The Court either partially or totally adopted the orders proposed by the ICL in the majority (85.7%) of cases where an ICL was involved. In almost half of cases (44.1%) where mothers made allegations of co-occurring domestic violence and child sexual abuse, the Court found their parenting capacity was affected by mental illness.

Child sexual abuse is more difficult to substantiate than domestic violence. In cases of co-occurrence, the alleged perpetrator may have a documented history of domestic violence while a sexual abuse allegation is less likely to be substantiated.

This evidentiary picture has multiple cascading implications. Women are in a double bind: Even where domestic violence has been documented, women can be penalised if they are seen to have overreacted to the possibility of child sexual abuse, but they can also be punished if they are viewed as not responding swiftly or proportionately enough to child safeguarding risks.

Children are at risk of harm: Where domestic violence is documented but child sexual abuse is not substantiated, children may be obliged to spend unsupervised time with their father despite having disclosed sexual abuse by him.

Responses to domestic violence and child sexual abuse are siloed and relevant services are not cooperating to provide holistic support for women and children.

Responses to complaints of co-occurring domestic violence and child sexual abuse are shaped by gendered stereotypes that heighten suspicion and judgement for women in ways that are not present for men.
Domestic violence constrains and complicates women’s reactions where they suspect, or where their child alleges, sexual abuse by the male partner. Child sex offenders can abuse and groom women in ways that undermine women’s social supports, autonomy, mental health and confidence in their own judgement.

Source: NC_Comissioned_Research_Salter_Improving_Responses_Final_Report.pdf