Victoria Police did not charge 'monster' cop who raped children, court told

The County Court. Photo: Scott Barbour
 

Victoria Police failed to act on complaints about a policeman who sexually brutalised nine children during his 12 years in the force, the County Court was told on Friday.

Instead, the organisation forced the officer to resign in 1979, the court heard. He then went on to sexually assault and rape children for at least another four years.

The former officer, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, on Friday formally pleaded guilty to 18 offences against nine victims, who were as young as five when he stole their innocence.

The man, now 66, worked as a police officer between 1967 and 1979, during which time he preyed on boys and girls, often in his police uniform.

Crown prosecutor Nanette Rogers told the court that one boy who the man assaulted in 1979 later told his mother what had happened, and she reported the abuse to the officer's colleagues.

While the woman decided not to press charges, Dr Rogers told the court that police went to the woman's house the next day and told her "that the offender wouldn't be in the police force any more and would be moved away".

He was forced to resign but was not arrested over the allegations, to which he finally pleaded guilty on Friday.

Dr Rogers described how the officer had asked one boy, who was between six and 10 when he was raped, whether he wanted to see the police station. He took the boy to a room in the station where there was a bed, and raped him.

Another girl went to the police station for help after losing her mother at a nearby festival. After telling the child, "I'll look after you", Dr Rogers said, the officer took her into the back of a police divisional van and forced her to perform oral sex on him.

Three of the other victims were his step-children. Others were friends of the children, friends of the family, or neighbours.

In harrowing testimony, one of the former officer's step-daughters, now 45, told the man she hoped he rotted in hell for what he had done to her, including holding a police-issue revolver to her head as he raped her.

She wept as she described how she had hoped he would pull the trigger and put her out of her misery. Instead, he forced her to suffer through years of "hell and his sick games".

The woman said she went to her grandmother when she was nine and would not stop bleeding. Her grandmother initially thought the girl was having her first period. Instead, a doctor informed her she was having a miscarriage.

"He is a monster," she raged at the man, who would not meet her eyes. "He needs to never see the light of day again ... once a monster always a monster – he will never change."

While she and her siblings were terrorised at home, she said, primary school was no refuge.

"He would show up in police uniform, in the police car, police revolver ... all the other kids thought it was cool."

Instead, she said, he would take her home while everyone else in the house was away and rape her, before driving her back to school in the police car.

Children were brought up to believe that the role of police was to serve and protect, she said bitterly. "What a load of bullshit that is."

She said that when she was 15, her grandfather helped her go to police and report the abuse, but she was told the man "would probably get off because he was an ex-cop".

She dropped the matter, and told the court she still felt guilty about what he had done to other children after that.

Police began investigating the former policeman in 2011, Dr Rogers said, and he was finally arrested in 2012.

Defence counsel Amelia Beech told Judge John Carmody that: "There is some evidence of remorse on [his] behalf. I don't say that it's strong evidence of remorse ... [but] if I can say this, Your Honour, he is making the right noises."

She said the former officer had no family support, and no visitors in prison.

Since 2012, he has been in jail, serving a 17-year sentence for separate offences which, the court was told, were of a "similar" nature.

Ms Beech said that after leaving Victoria Police the man moved into the private sector.

Ms Beech asked the judge to show compassion in sentencing, and to take into account the man's age and his severe osteoarthritis.

Judge Carmody said he was concerned about a report finding that the man, "even at 66", was in the high-risk category for re-offending.

He will sentence the man on Tuesday.

 

theage.com.au 17 Jun 2016 

Australia's corrupt police 'force' in full swing.

Naturally for the 'greater good of the community'.

eJustice coming to Australia your friendly penal colony

In Australia we have too many criminals roaming the streets where authorities cannot nab them.

The corporate media people will tell you these criminals are 'fine' dodgers, but (deliberately) neglects to tell you that fines in Australia are unlawful.

When you park your horseless carriage longer than what a statutory body tells you, you receive a fine, unlawfully. If you do not pay this fine the matter is listed as a criminal offence in a place of business/commerce/trading called a 'court'.

As a result we have millions of 'criminals' in Australia.

In a certain period in time you had to have a licence to operate a viewing device that received radio frequencies.

In another point in time you had to have a licence for transmitting radio frequencies of audio spectrum quality of no greater than 5 watts.

Fast forward a few years and the government still requires you to register your mobile telephone  / sim card before it becomes operational.

Now, with the advent of smart phones, you are required to register your apparatus via an internet email account which can be hacked.

Your contacts/calendar is no longer personal, nor private and confidential, but rather the data is now available to be abused by others.

The myth that 'your' data is secure is exactly that - a myth.

For many years now the 'authorities' have been wanting/needing/requiring your mobile phone number and email address when filling out forms.

Because there are so many people that are dodging unlawful fines, the government (read corporation conglomerate) is claiming on missing out hundreds of millions of dollars annually in (unlawful) revenue.

Any person involved in the legal industry should be able to tell the lay-person that law is fluid, and changes as society changes.

e-Justice (Electronic Justice) will be a new delivery mechanism in the near future.

In the European Union it is 'advertised' as a 

"future electronic one-stop-shop in the area of justice".

In Australia have the people the right to not go into a 'shop'?

Can you have a choice of not buying?

Will the Australian advertising slogan be:

"If you can't come to us, we know where you are anyway, so we'll deliver it to your phone"?

While technically people can come and go as they please from the continent known as Australia, once you're on it then it's a different story.

Australia, at law, is still a colony of the British empire, which is reflected by the penal colony laws implemented and not of a (true) democracy or remotely a place of 'free-men'.

The occupiers have not signed a treaty with the Indigenous people, as they have in New Zealand with the Treaty of Waitangi, hence the different standing of law in this country.

Currently, there is no mandate in any law in Australia that states that you must provide your mobile phone number or email address.

Stay tuned for eJustice to your smartphone or email address.

Australia - Alcatraz v2

Police to use new home invasive smartphone technology without warrants

It all may seem a bit 'James Bond' at times when it comes to technology released to the general population, but it really pales in comparison as to what is available to 'governments'.

With the introduction of the GSM phone came another technology that was 'conveniently' not mentioned to the general populous that being the location of the user, within an error margin of approximately 10 meters or less, via a technology that is referred to today as A-GPS (Assisted GPS), that being the location of the mobile phone via cell tower triangulation. See illustration below.

This data was available to government departments from the very inception of this technology being introduced to the masses, and was primarily used in the utility sector in Australia, as well as law enforcement later on.

People who mentioned that they knew this data was used by law enforcement, were ridiculed and scoffed at, as a 'conspiracy theorist' or watching too many James Bond films, by the police.

Phone technology progressed, where more computing power and functionality was crammed into the device with the emergence of real GPS technology also being crammed in.

This data was now being made available to the masses, where the market has embraced this surveillance technology which can be used and abused by not only authorities, but also now (private or government sector) app developers.

As usual technology and law are intertwined, and in Australia law is very different to other parts of the world, including the close neighbour of New Zealand.

The laws of Australia are different to the laws of New Zealand, where after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, the British Crown is not an oppressive force (at war) on the Indigenous population.

What the general population should know is that Australia was started of as an 'economic' project with the invasion on the Indigenous population with a boat load of convicts.

With no treaty signed the act of war being current, Martial Law was installed on the continent now referred to as Australia since 1788.

To this day, since there is no treaty with the Indigenous population, technically a state of war is still upon this land, unbeknownst to the general populous, but well known within legal circles within government ranks.

Why would the (colonial) past be brought up where some trailer trash uneducated radio DJ (Kyle Sandliands - @kingkyle) would even comment as to move on or even 'get over it'?

From this thing called the past is where the current law stands at.

It is the fundamental basis of current actions of the 'executive' - i.e. law makers, politicians and the law enforcers the police, that effects the people on this land.


If people comprehend how they are seen by the authorities, they will then comprehend the actions of those people in power.

Now moving on to Australia's law enforcement history, which is quite dodgy to say the least.

To put it as concisely as possible, Australia's police 'force' started off as criminals, just really good behaved ones.

As mentioned previously, at law, since there still is no treaty with the Indigenous population the general populace are still technically an occupying force, occupying the role of military non-combatants.

This is further supported  by the military designations of Mr, Ms, Mrs or Miss the Australian government uses in classifying the general population, as defined their very own Style Manual Sixth Edition as described in the post:
http://corpau.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/the-true-meaning-of-title-mr-ms-mrs-or.html

At law, Australia is still a colony of the British empire, which also reflects how the authorities see their inhabitants.

At law, meaning Australian law makers classified you as a 'criminal' if you overstayed your allocated time frame in a car parking space.

At law, you are a criminal if you did not obey a traffic/road/speed signage.

At law, strict and absolute liability is enforced via Roman Curia law.

At law 'owner onus' applies implicating that you are guilty and you must prove your innocence.

So what's this 'history' crap got to do with mobile phone technology? 

Plenty.

The general populace are viewed as criminals (past present or future), and they are treated, at law as such.

This can be further enhanced by the fact that law makers are making laws that invade the privacy of the convicts allowing police to access data WITHOUT warrants without any repercussions.

At law - The police are NOT your 'friend' never were and never will be.

Naturally all this technology is for YOUR benefit.

See article from 12 Jun 2016 from news.com.au of the headline:

Your phone may soon sense everything around you

Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo CEO, reveals the Moto Z Family and Moto Mods ecosystem at Lenovo Tech World at The Masonic Auditorium on June 9, 2016 in San Francisco. Picture: Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Motorola Mobility.

SUPPOSE your smartphone is clever enough to grasp your physical surroundings — the room’s size, the location of doors and windows and the presence of other people. What could it do with that info?

We’re about to get our first look. This week Lenovo was to give consumers their first chance to buy a phone featuring Google’s 3-year-old Project Tango, an attempt to imbue machines with a better understanding of what’s around them.

Location tracking through GPS and cell towers tells apps where you are, but not much more. Tango uses software and sensors to track motions and size up the contours of rooms, empowering Lenovo’s new phone to map building interiors. That’s a crucial building block of a promising new frontier in “augmented reality,” or the digital projection of lifelike images and data into a real-life environment.

If Tango fulfils its promise, furniture shoppers will be able to download digital models of couches, chairs and coffee tables to see how they would look in their actual living rooms. Kids studying the Mesozoic Era would be able to place a virtual Tyrannosaurus or Velociraptor in their home or classroom — and even take selfies with one. The technology would even know when to display information about an artist or a scene depicted in a painting as you stroll through a museum.

Tango will be able to create internal maps of homes and offices on the fly. Google won’t need to build a mapping database ahead of time, as it does with Google Maps and Street View. Nonetheless, Tango could raise fresh concerns about privacy if controls aren’t stringent enough to prevent the on-the-fly maps from being shared with unauthorised apps or heisted by hackers.

At the Lenovo Tech World conference in San Francisco this week, the Chinese company was expected to announce the phone’s price and release date.

Google already has released experimental Tango devices designed for computer programmers, spurring them to build apps that will work with Lenovo’s new phone. At a conference for developers last month, Google demonstrated an app for picturing furniture in actual living rooms and for taking selfies with digital dinosaurs.

Google plans to bring Tango to other phones, but is focusing on the Lenovo partnership this year, according to Johnny Lee, a Google executive who oversaw the team that developed the technology.

Lee believes three-dimensional imagery and data — whether through the new Tango phone or another technology — will help reshape the way people interact with e-commerce, education and gaming.

Idiot 'engineers' should be sacked for approving high rise next to helipad in Melbourne

Apparently we are told that the people in power rule over the peasants with decisions that are for 'good governance'.

So how is putting the plebs lives at risk, 'good governance'.

How could you trust 'town planners' that gave the go-ahead to a high rise residential dwelling, that is a flight risk to the already established Royal Melbourne Hospital, just across the road.

These people responsible should be dismissed immediately, never to work in their field again, as it is clear that their decisions put peoples lives at risk.

Another one for the 'Failure of Governance' file, all in the name of 'big business'?

From the article of 14 Jun 2016 by abc.net.au of the headline:

Concerns Melbourne high-rise could interfere with hospital flight paths

Posted about 8 hours ago

 

 Photo: An artist's impression of The Principal on Flemington Road, North Melbourne. (Supplied)

Related Story: Hospital forced to close helipad due to nearby construction

The Victorian Government is appealing to the planning tribunal to stop a high-rise development amid concerns it could interfere with flight paths to one of the state's busiest hospitals.

Key points:

• 15-storey development was approved before new regulations were introduced to protect flight paths
• Planning Minster says Melbourne City Council 'did not give due consideration'
• Royal Melbourne Hospital helipad closed for weeks last year due to nearby construction

The Department of Health and Human Services has told the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) a 15-storey building approved for development on Flemington Road could stop helicopters from landing at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

The Principal building will comprise 162 one, two and three-bedroom apartments and two penthouses, according to the website of property services group Olive Hume.

Sixty per cent of the dwellings have already been sold, according to the website.

Planning Minister Richard Wynne said the development was approved by Melbourne City Council before new regulations were introduced to protect hospital flight paths.

"The Melbourne City Council in this instance did not give due consideration to ensuring that the flight path was protected," he said.

"They need a clear flight path in and out of the hospitals and if you have buildings obviously that block the flight path, it's often not safe for the helicopter to weave around them."

The department has asked VCAT to reduce the height of the building.

The tribunal hearing concluded earlier this month but a decision is yet to be made.

The hospital's helipad was forced to close for weeks last year due to concerns a nearby crane on a construction site was intruding airspace.