AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Tuesday 4 February 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.
Retired assistant commissioner David Jefferies told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse that he received information a Queensland millionaire, known as JA, flew boys to Sydney to be abused as part of a paedophile ring.
“This JA was certainly known as a millionaire and had, I believe, a construction business, and we certainly had received information about children actually going to his home,” Jefferies said.
“We were aware that boys in state care and from some institutions had in fact been flown to Sydney.”
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