A top prosecutor has called for one of Australia’s worst paedophiles to receive a life sentence, saying the “true horror” of the ex-childcare worker’s offences is difficult to describe.
Ashley Paul Griffith, 46, faced Brisbane District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to 28 counts of rape against girls primarily aged three to five at childcare centres in Queensland between 2007 and 2022.
Griffith pleaded guilty to 307 offences including ongoing sexual abuse and making child exploitation material against nearly 70 victims beginning in 2003.
Griffith was identified through an “extensive and painstaking investigation” of objects in the background of child sexual abuse videos he uploaded in 2014 to a website run by notorious South Australian child rapist Shannon McCoole.
Griffith was twice investigated in the years before he was arrested, once over a complaint from a child he had touched her and another time after a colleague saw him acting suspiciously with a child.
Both times the complaints were not substantiated after Griffith told centre management the first child was mistaken and told police he was just trying to help the second child get to sleep.
Source: Push for ‘horror’ childcare rapist to face life in jail
Life sentence… no child will ever be safe around this life wrecking ped he has no sense that little girls are deserving of care and respect