AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN FEBRUARY 05, 2014
QUEENSLAND police were aware of allegations boys held in state care were being flown to Sydney to be abused by a millionaire and a chef in the mid 1970s, a former assistant police commissioner says.
But while police and the state government believed a pedophile network was allegedly abusing boys in Brisbane during 1975, including at least one boy from a Salvation Army home, vulnerable children continued to be placed in the home, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
David Jefferies, a former assistant commissioner of Queensland Police, said he had investigated a number of alleged pedophiles said to be “grooming and offending against various boys”, possibly including those from the Indooroopilly home.
He said he had received information a Queensland millionaire, known as JA, flew boys to Sydney to be abused as part of a pedophile ring.
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