Child sexual abuse within the Department of Foreign Affairs-Information in the public domain ignored by Peter McClellan's RCI into child sex abuse
by Ganesh Sahathevan
This is an excerpt from Molly Carson's "More Cloak Than Dagger: One Woman's Career in Secret Intelligence"
(Source Molly Carson's "More Cloak Than Dagger: One Woman's Career in Secret Intelligence" page 122)
The incident would have occurred sometime between 1955 and 1962. Government departments ,including the Department Of Foreign Affairs ,are institutions ,even if Peter McClellan's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sex Abuse gives the impression that the Catholic Church is the only institution that matters.As mentioned in my earlier article , child abuse like any other activity ,requires resources to fund it,and government institutions like the Department Of Foreign Affairs provides a very good source of resources for sexual escapades, especially when the activities are better conducted offshore ,for example in Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam or Sri Lanka, to name a few of the more obvious destinations.
Ms Carson's book was published in 2016, and it received a lot of publicity, It is hard to see how that detail above escaped Peter McClellan's RCI.
END
This is an excerpt from Molly Carson's "More Cloak Than Dagger: One Woman's Career in Secret Intelligence"
(Source Molly Carson's "More Cloak Than Dagger: One Woman's Career in Secret Intelligence" page 122)
The incident would have occurred sometime between 1955 and 1962. Government departments ,including the Department Of Foreign Affairs ,are institutions ,even if Peter McClellan's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sex Abuse gives the impression that the Catholic Church is the only institution that matters.As mentioned in my earlier article , child abuse like any other activity ,requires resources to fund it,and government institutions like the Department Of Foreign Affairs provides a very good source of resources for sexual escapades, especially when the activities are better conducted offshore ,for example in Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam or Sri Lanka, to name a few of the more obvious destinations.
Ms Carson's book was published in 2016, and it received a lot of publicity, It is hard to see how that detail above escaped Peter McClellan's RCI.
END
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sex Abuse has made recommendations which on the face of it appear fearless, hard hitting , but look closer and it does seem as if the Commissioners seemed afraid to state the obvious.
First, all cases involved white men preying on children, mostly boys (with the exception of perhaps the Bishop of Parramatta ,who was 21 when he says he was sexually abused).
Yet, the Commissioners seem unable to state the obvious : that men (all white) who were either homosexual or bisexual preyed on boys. Instead the Commissioners have suggested that it is celibacy that is the problem,that these men are good husband material, except for a tendency to prey on boys.
Had the Commissioners been brave enough to state the obvious the number of institutions that would then have had to be investigated is likely to have included a number of secular entities, and it is perhaps that which frightened the Commissioners.
Then even while pursuing Catholic clergy the Commissioners made the glaring omission of not saying anything about the tendency of Australians, including clergy involved in child sex, to take off to Asian cities for a bit of fun. It is as if they were happy to overlook cases like that of Catholic priest Denis McAlinden (see story below). It would have been a simple matter to recommend controls on institutions that would prevent ,curb or curtail travel overseas by white men who prey on boys, but it did not. The role of institutions in facilitating overseas escapades cannot be overlooked. Many men would not be able to afford overseas trips if they had to pay for it out of their own pockets.The Commissioners cannot claim to be ignorant of the fact.
END
TheAustralian
1:57PM July 1, 2013
THE CATHOLIC church received repeated reports that a pedophile priest was abusing children, some as young as four, but failed to pass these on to police for decades, an inquiry has heard.
Church authorities instead actively concealed his abuse and encouraged the priest, Father Denis McAlinden, to move to other dioceses in Australia and overseas, where he was able to continue abusing children.
Even after NSW Police issued a warrant for the priest's arrest in 1999, the inquiry heard, church authorities did not initially provide his address, and the priest ultimately died six years later without being charged.
The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry has heard that the first recorded report of McAlinden's abuse was in 1953, when the parents of one his victims reported it to the then-Bishop of Maitland.
Another child victim who described his own abuse to a priest during confession was given penance as a result, counsel assisting the inquiry Julia Lonergan, SC, told the inquiry.
Subsequent correspondence between senior church officials show they believe the allegations against McAlinden were factual, but recommend he move to another diocese "because it provides a good cover-up," Ms Lonergan said.
The diocese also paid for a one-way ticket for the priest to travel to Papua New Guinea, where he continued to work as a priest, without warning church officials there about the details of the allegations against him.
"These problems are over now. I would really think he is worth a try," the then-Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Leo Clarke wrote to his counterpart in PNG, the inquiry heard.
In 2002, another victim who reported her abuse to the subsequent bishop, Michael Malone, was told "McAlinden had a known history of child abuse and a file you couldn't jump over," Ms Lonergan said.
This victim told the church she would be happy for her account to be passed to police in order to corroborate any allegations made by other victims, but this was not done.
The current bishop of Newcastle, Bill Wright, apologised publicly to the inquiry for this history of abuse, and inaction by church authorities.
"I acknowledge that these sexual predators used their position in the diocese to gain access to these children and to conceal their acts," he said.
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Exposed - the ugly Australians; Melbourne travel agents linked to Asian child sex tours
Paul Robinson
VICTORIAN and Federal police are closely monitoring the activities of travel agencies and more than 50 known paedophiles after the detection of several organised sex tours to Asia.
The Victoria Police have successfully infiltrated one travel agency owned by two men whose home is in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
The operation, code-named Smart, established that eight suspected paedophiles were leaving on a 28-day sex tour of Thailand. The operation faltered when Victorian police failed to get the co- operation necessary overseas. The paedophile excursion went ahead.
Those travel agencies and the paedophiles are still under surveillance. Their names have been given to Philippines authorities, who have no alert system at Manila airport, but not officially to Thai police.
The targeting of travel agencies follows revelations by Philippines authorities that they have banned at least 10 Australians for allegedly molesting Filipino boys.
Among those banned from the Philippines is a wealthy Toorak businessman who has written regularly to a Filipino youth since the boy was 15. The youth spoke to `The Sunday Age' in Manila last week, confirming his sexual relationship and producing letters from the married man, sent in March this year.
The businessman, however, is not banned from Thailand and is unknown to Thai police. After extensive Victoria Police surveillance, the man flew recently to Thailand with a male friend. On his return two weeks later he was searched by Customs. A video showing young Asian boys at a party was confiscated and sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
According to an unpublished Victorian police report, completed last April on child prostitution in Asia, a joint police-Customs operation has also "uncovered a number of prominent (Australian) male offenders involved in an international boys' association who were travelling to both Thailand and the Philippines and having sexual liaisons with Asian boys, the same age as those normally committed to their care in the youth organisation".
The report, compiled by Sergeant Ian Hopley, who travelled to Thailand and the Philippines last year, has also found that a large child pornography distribution racket, detected in Victoria in January last year shows strong links between Australia and the Philippines.
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"Documents seized showed that the two principal players in the operation were also attempting to set up a child pornography manufacturing and distribution network to be based in Manila using Filipino children and the films smuggled into Australia for reproduction and sale through Australian and international contact magazines," the report said.
The Federal Government has been concerned about the involvement of Australians in the child-sex trade since the former Minister for Health, Brian Howe, visited Thailand last year. Mr Howe advised the then Attorney-General, Michael Duffy, who commissioned a report on the possible legal responses to Australians exploiting children overseas.
Further action has been delayed because of the federal election, the retirement of Mr Duffy from the ministry and the delayed elevation of Queensland lawyer Michael Lavarche to the Attorney-General's position.
Mr Lavarche would only say last week that, if elected in yesterday's Dickson by-election, he would investigate what progress had been made in tackling the problem.
"I'll give it serious consideration next week," he said.
Colonel Surasak Suttharom, the man responsible for combating child prostitution in Thailand, said he would like the Australian Government to enact laws that would enable Australian authorities to prosecute paedophiles who commit crimes in other countries.
Germany was the first country to enact such laws last year.
A spokesman for the Thai Prime Minister, Chuan Lekphai, who is the first Thai leader to order an end to child prostitution, also suggested that Australia follow the German example.
"We hope the Australian Government fully co-operates with this policy ... This Government doesn't want a single baht from the sex industry that revolves around children," he said.
In the Philippines, the chairman of the special board of inquiry into deportation, Stanley Canta, also urged the Australian Government to crack down on paedophiles leaving Australia for his country's shores.
The Australian Government has also been strongly urged by Justice Elizabeth Evatt, the president of the Law Reform Commission, to legislate to allow the prosecution of Australian citizens who commit sexual offences against children overseas.
Justice Evatt told a child prostitution conference last November: "Prosecutions within Australia of Australian men who committed sexual offences against children while overseas would have dramatic impact.
Not only would it signal to our neighboring countries that Australia is committed to fighting sex tourism, it would show Australian men that we will not tolerate the sexual exploitation of children by our citizens, whether committed at home or overseas."
Scores of Australian child sex offenders tried to enter Indonesia this year Jewel TopsfieldPublished: July 6 2017 - 3:26PM
Jakarta: Almost 100 child sex offenders from Australia have tried to enter Indonesia this year, which child advocates say underscores the need for world-first new Australian laws that will cancel the passports of paedophiles.
Indonesian immigration officials have revealed that 92 of the 485 foreigners barred from entering Indonesia this year were Australian child sex offenders.
Indonesia, and in particular Bali, has long attracted Australian paedophiles.
Victorian Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis was last year sentenced to 15 years' jail after he sexually abused 11 girls - the harshest penalty ever imposed for this type of crime in Bali.
The 70-year-old had insisted he did not deserve to be jailed because his crime was "not a serious thing" and he "paid them generously".
In 2014, Indonesia eclipsed Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia to become the number one destination for Australian sex tourists over the previous three years. Most started in Bali.
This paved the way for a deal between the two countries in late 2014 which sees Indonesia deny entry to registered sex offenders when notified by the Australian Federal Police.
In May this year the Turnbull government announced that more than 20,000 people on the National Child Offender Register would have their passports cancelled while they were on the list. There are 3200 offenders on the register for life.
According to the Australian government, almost 800 child sex offenders travelled overseas last year.
Indonesian immigration spokesman Agung Sampurno welcomed the new law, saying it gave legal support to the ongoing cooperation between the AFP and Indonesian immigration authorities.
"The law is very helpful, however with or without the law the immigration cooperation on the field has been going very well," he said. "Based on common agreement we do database integration. It makes it easier now."
Former Victorian police officer Glen Hulley's anti-child sex exploitation organisation Project Karma lobbied senator Derryn Hinch to push for the new laws after he was elected to Parliament last year.
Mr Hulley said the laws were in the implementation phase and he expected them to be imposed by the end of the year.
Of the 107 sex offenders denied entry to Indonesia this year, 92 were from Australia.
"These figures absolutely show the need for the laws," Mr Hulley said.
Project Karma is lobbying the US and New Zealand to introduce similar laws. It is also the first Western organisation to partner with local government and police in Bali to raise awareness in villages about child sex abuse.
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Commissioners
The Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sex Abuse has made recommendations which on the face of it appear fearless, hard hitting , but look closer and it does seem as if the Commissioners seemed afraid to state the obvious.
First, all cases involved white men preying on children, mostly boys (with the exception of perhaps the Bishop of Parramatta ,who was 21 when he says he was sexually abused).
Yet, the Commissioners seem unable to state the obvious : that men (all white) who were either homosexual or bisexual preyed on boys. Instead the Commissioners have suggested that it is celibacy that is the problem,that these men are good husband material, except for a tendency to prey on boys.
Had the Commissioners been brave enough to state the obvious the number of institutions that would then have had to be investigated is likely to have included a number of secular entities, and it is perhaps that which frightened the Commissioners.
Then even while pursuing Catholic clergy the Commissioners made the glaring omission of not saying anything about the tendency of Australians, including clergy involved in child sex, to take off to Asian cities for a bit of fun. It is as if they were happy to overlook cases like that of Catholic priest Denis McAlinden (see story below). It would have been a simple matter to recommend controls on institutions that would prevent ,curb or curtail travel overseas by white men who prey on boys, but it did not. The role of institutions in facilitating overseas escapades cannot be overlooked. Many men would not be able to afford overseas trips if they had to pay for it out of their own pockets.The Commissioners cannot claim to be ignorant of the fact.
END
Catholic church concealed pedophile priest Denis McAlinden's abuses
DAN BOXTheAustralian
1:57PM July 1, 2013
THE CATHOLIC church received repeated reports that a pedophile priest was abusing children, some as young as four, but failed to pass these on to police for decades, an inquiry has heard.
Church authorities instead actively concealed his abuse and encouraged the priest, Father Denis McAlinden, to move to other dioceses in Australia and overseas, where he was able to continue abusing children.
Even after NSW Police issued a warrant for the priest's arrest in 1999, the inquiry heard, church authorities did not initially provide his address, and the priest ultimately died six years later without being charged.
The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry has heard that the first recorded report of McAlinden's abuse was in 1953, when the parents of one his victims reported it to the then-Bishop of Maitland.
Another child victim who described his own abuse to a priest during confession was given penance as a result, counsel assisting the inquiry Julia Lonergan, SC, told the inquiry.
Subsequent correspondence between senior church officials show they believe the allegations against McAlinden were factual, but recommend he move to another diocese "because it provides a good cover-up," Ms Lonergan said.
The diocese also paid for a one-way ticket for the priest to travel to Papua New Guinea, where he continued to work as a priest, without warning church officials there about the details of the allegations against him.
"These problems are over now. I would really think he is worth a try," the then-Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Leo Clarke wrote to his counterpart in PNG, the inquiry heard.
In 2002, another victim who reported her abuse to the subsequent bishop, Michael Malone, was told "McAlinden had a known history of child abuse and a file you couldn't jump over," Ms Lonergan said.
This victim told the church she would be happy for her account to be passed to police in order to corroborate any allegations made by other victims, but this was not done.
The current bishop of Newcastle, Bill Wright, apologised publicly to the inquiry for this history of abuse, and inaction by church authorities.
"I acknowledge that these sexual predators used their position in the diocese to gain access to these children and to conceal their acts," he said.
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Exposed - the ugly Australians; Melbourne travel agents linked to Asian child sex tours
Paul Robinson
VICTORIAN and Federal police are closely monitoring the activities of travel agencies and more than 50 known paedophiles after the detection of several organised sex tours to Asia.
The Victoria Police have successfully infiltrated one travel agency owned by two men whose home is in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
The operation, code-named Smart, established that eight suspected paedophiles were leaving on a 28-day sex tour of Thailand. The operation faltered when Victorian police failed to get the co- operation necessary overseas. The paedophile excursion went ahead.
Those travel agencies and the paedophiles are still under surveillance. Their names have been given to Philippines authorities, who have no alert system at Manila airport, but not officially to Thai police.
The targeting of travel agencies follows revelations by Philippines authorities that they have banned at least 10 Australians for allegedly molesting Filipino boys.
Among those banned from the Philippines is a wealthy Toorak businessman who has written regularly to a Filipino youth since the boy was 15. The youth spoke to `The Sunday Age' in Manila last week, confirming his sexual relationship and producing letters from the married man, sent in March this year.
The businessman, however, is not banned from Thailand and is unknown to Thai police. After extensive Victoria Police surveillance, the man flew recently to Thailand with a male friend. On his return two weeks later he was searched by Customs. A video showing young Asian boys at a party was confiscated and sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
According to an unpublished Victorian police report, completed last April on child prostitution in Asia, a joint police-Customs operation has also "uncovered a number of prominent (Australian) male offenders involved in an international boys' association who were travelling to both Thailand and the Philippines and having sexual liaisons with Asian boys, the same age as those normally committed to their care in the youth organisation".
The report, compiled by Sergeant Ian Hopley, who travelled to Thailand and the Philippines last year, has also found that a large child pornography distribution racket, detected in Victoria in January last year shows strong links between Australia and the Philippines.
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"Documents seized showed that the two principal players in the operation were also attempting to set up a child pornography manufacturing and distribution network to be based in Manila using Filipino children and the films smuggled into Australia for reproduction and sale through Australian and international contact magazines," the report said.
The Federal Government has been concerned about the involvement of Australians in the child-sex trade since the former Minister for Health, Brian Howe, visited Thailand last year. Mr Howe advised the then Attorney-General, Michael Duffy, who commissioned a report on the possible legal responses to Australians exploiting children overseas.
Further action has been delayed because of the federal election, the retirement of Mr Duffy from the ministry and the delayed elevation of Queensland lawyer Michael Lavarche to the Attorney-General's position.
Mr Lavarche would only say last week that, if elected in yesterday's Dickson by-election, he would investigate what progress had been made in tackling the problem.
"I'll give it serious consideration next week," he said.
Colonel Surasak Suttharom, the man responsible for combating child prostitution in Thailand, said he would like the Australian Government to enact laws that would enable Australian authorities to prosecute paedophiles who commit crimes in other countries.
Germany was the first country to enact such laws last year.
A spokesman for the Thai Prime Minister, Chuan Lekphai, who is the first Thai leader to order an end to child prostitution, also suggested that Australia follow the German example.
"We hope the Australian Government fully co-operates with this policy ... This Government doesn't want a single baht from the sex industry that revolves around children," he said.
In the Philippines, the chairman of the special board of inquiry into deportation, Stanley Canta, also urged the Australian Government to crack down on paedophiles leaving Australia for his country's shores.
The Australian Government has also been strongly urged by Justice Elizabeth Evatt, the president of the Law Reform Commission, to legislate to allow the prosecution of Australian citizens who commit sexual offences against children overseas.
Justice Evatt told a child prostitution conference last November: "Prosecutions within Australia of Australian men who committed sexual offences against children while overseas would have dramatic impact.
Not only would it signal to our neighboring countries that Australia is committed to fighting sex tourism, it would show Australian men that we will not tolerate the sexual exploitation of children by our citizens, whether committed at home or overseas."
Scores of Australian child sex offenders tried to enter Indonesia this year Jewel TopsfieldPublished: July 6 2017 - 3:26PM
Jakarta: Almost 100 child sex offenders from Australia have tried to enter Indonesia this year, which child advocates say underscores the need for world-first new Australian laws that will cancel the passports of paedophiles.
Indonesian immigration officials have revealed that 92 of the 485 foreigners barred from entering Indonesia this year were Australian child sex offenders.
Indonesia, and in particular Bali, has long attracted Australian paedophiles.
Victorian Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis was last year sentenced to 15 years' jail after he sexually abused 11 girls - the harshest penalty ever imposed for this type of crime in Bali.
The 70-year-old had insisted he did not deserve to be jailed because his crime was "not a serious thing" and he "paid them generously".
In 2014, Indonesia eclipsed Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia to become the number one destination for Australian sex tourists over the previous three years. Most started in Bali.
This paved the way for a deal between the two countries in late 2014 which sees Indonesia deny entry to registered sex offenders when notified by the Australian Federal Police.
In May this year the Turnbull government announced that more than 20,000 people on the National Child Offender Register would have their passports cancelled while they were on the list. There are 3200 offenders on the register for life.
According to the Australian government, almost 800 child sex offenders travelled overseas last year.
Indonesian immigration spokesman Agung Sampurno welcomed the new law, saying it gave legal support to the ongoing cooperation between the AFP and Indonesian immigration authorities.
"The law is very helpful, however with or without the law the immigration cooperation on the field has been going very well," he said. "Based on common agreement we do database integration. It makes it easier now."
Former Victorian police officer Glen Hulley's anti-child sex exploitation organisation Project Karma lobbied senator Derryn Hinch to push for the new laws after he was elected to Parliament last year.
Mr Hulley said the laws were in the implementation phase and he expected them to be imposed by the end of the year.
Of the 107 sex offenders denied entry to Indonesia this year, 92 were from Australia.
"These figures absolutely show the need for the laws," Mr Hulley said.
Project Karma is lobbying the US and New Zealand to introduce similar laws. It is also the first Western organisation to partner with local government and police in Bali to raise awareness in villages about child sex abuse.
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Follow Jewel Topsfield on Facebook
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/world/scores-of-australian-child-sex-offenders-tried-to-enter-indonesia-this-year-20170706-gx5xvg.html
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