Yolanda Borucki told reporters she was feeling “nervous’ as she headed into Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.
In 2023, the whistleblower leaked information to Channel 9’s A Current Affair after she became frustrated at the police investigation into Ashley Paul Griffith who worked at the same Uniting Church childcare centre as her.
Queensland Police investigated an October 2021 complaint about Griffith made by Ms Borucki and another complaint in April 2022 but found there was insufficient evidence to establish a criminal offence.
Ms Borucki is alleged to have sent emails about Griffith to the Channel 9 show in August 2023.
She told the program he had been seen kissing a child at the centre, and how she raised her concerns with management and eventually passed on those concerns to police.
It’s alleged that Ms Borucki also sent A Current Affair a copy of an internal Uniting Church report into the incident in the days before she finished working for the organisation.
The report recommended that Griffith remain working at the childcare centre.
Ms Borucki has been charged with computer hacking and misuse causing detriment for allegedly sending details of Griffith from her work computer to her home computer and A Current Affair.
Source: Twist in case of Australia’s worst paedophile | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Bearing in mind what has happened here – the offender being described as the ‘most prolific’ child sexual abuser in Australian history – and one can rest assured that far more than 300 girl children have been subjected to his crimes – surely there should be protection under whistleblower legislation. When the employer is unmoved and unmoving, incapable and collusive (my opinion based on what is known through reports), and police are (as appears to be the case) incompetent or ? what is one to do? Be collusive in the activity and the cover-up? Go mad with worry anxiety care for the children? Or go to the media. Surely there is one path only.