SA child sex offender Geoffrey William Moyle abused children while at the same time trying to improve living conditions, says District Court Judge.
An Adelaide sex offender who abused children in impoverished countries was being paid to help those very communities out of poverty, a court has heard.
A child-sex offender who abused multiple girls overseas was employed as an international development officer trying to address poverty, disadvantage and crime, a court has heard.
Geoffrey Moyle’s offending when he was working in South East Asia in numerous roles has set the stage for a landmark case on whether a victim is entitled to compensation.
On Friday District Court Judge Paul Cuthbertson asked whether the offending should be considered offensive and shameful after hearing details of the 47-year-old’s crimes.
“It seems to me that he is an Australian citizen helping people while he is a sort of representative of the Australian people and he is corrupting the young children on a poverty-riven country,” he said.
“Is one warranted in taking offence to that?”
Moyle pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual intercourse with a child outside of Australia, as well as possessing child exploitation material.
He was arrested in May 2019 after a USB led Australian Federal Police to identify Moyle in several videos online of him abusing children in South East Asia.
The identity of the some of the victims’ remains unknown and the court heard it was not obvious whether they had been found in local brothels.
On Friday, the District Court heard a victim impact statement from one of Moyle’s victims who was being forced to work in a brothel when she was abused.
The court heard a horrific insight into life in a child brothel in Cambodia with the 12-year-old victim saying three quarters of her clients were white, foreign men.
The young woman was sold to the brothel by a stranger and kept there for a year.
She said the woman who ran the brothel, who she named “Lady Boss”, threatened to take her to police if she did not please the customers.
“I felt like I was a dead body with no value for anyone,” she said.
On two occasions she was taken to see Moyle at a hotel. She said Moyle had two cameras set up in the hotel room.
She asked him not to film and he said the cameras were off. But during the subsequent abuse the victim noted that Moyle did not say anything and avoided turning his face to the camera.
“I did not want to be filmed and was terrified that someone might see photos of me,” she said.
The young woman eventually escaped the brothel and provided a victim impact statement to police via a translator.
The victim was among six young girls who Moyle abused overseas between 2002 and 2005.
At the same time he was working to improve conditions in several poverty-stricken counties and went on to work on crime-reduction campaigns specifically targeted at protecting women and children.
Heath Barklay QC, for Moyle, said the offending was serious but that his client had done good work too.
“He has done good things for people who are struggling,” he said.
“Although he has done a lot of wrong, he has also done a lot of right as well.”
Moyle posted some of the videos of his abuse of the children online in 2010.
Mr Barklay said Moyle had a problem with sexual deviancy that went some way to explaining why he posted the material online.
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“It seems to me that he is an Australian citizen helping people while he is a sort of representative of the Australian people and he is corrupting the young children on a poverty-riven country,” he said.
“Is one warranted in taking offence to that?”
Yes ... you stupid cunt
“Is one warranted in taking offence to that?”
Yes ... you stupid cunt
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How does a creep like this slip through the gaps? Him posting videos of his offending online is someone wanting to be caught.
Initially he was only suspected of and charged with possessing and transmitting child exploitation footage. It was only after he was raided for that that the police watched the footage and realised it was him in it.
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I read that quote several times in an effort to see the angle that didn't make that utter spastic sound like someone who shouldn't even be a lawyer, let alone a judge. And totally failed. I just can't see the point in that statement, even as a rhetorical question.ricecakes wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:40 am“It seems to me that he is an Australian citizen helping people while he is a sort of representative of the Australian people and he is corrupting the young children on a poverty-riven country,” he said.
“Is one warranted in taking offence to that?”
Yes ... you stupid cunt
Stupid cunt indeed.
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This rockspider was targeted and in 2 months was charged ,there will be more similar convictions ,garentteed .They know who they are ,there supposed " tight networks " are anything but .
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Ditto. To add, the judge was inferring all the 'good work' the perp had done could offset his heinous crimes. Wtf?bipolar bear wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:58 pmI read that quote several times in an effort to see the angle that didn't make that utter spastic sound like someone who shouldn't even be a lawyer, let alone a judge. And totally failed. I just can't see the point in that statement, even as a rhetorical question.ricecakes wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:40 am“It seems to me that he is an Australian citizen helping people while he is a sort of representative of the Australian people and he is corrupting the young children on a poverty-riven country,” he said.
“Is one warranted in taking offence to that?”
Yes ... you stupid cunt
Stupid cunt indeed.
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Wondering if this is about Moyle. Why haven’t they named him?
“An Adelaide man who sexually abused several minors in Cambodia and kept a collection of child abuse material has had his sentence increased to 12 years’ imprisonment by the South Australia Court of Appeal today (22 June, 2022).
The Commonwealth successfully appealed for an increased sentence after the man, 49, was sentenced to eight years, nine months and 19 days imprisonment in 2021.”
Source: https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media ... qK6a5pSW8E
“An Adelaide man who sexually abused several minors in Cambodia and kept a collection of child abuse material has had his sentence increased to 12 years’ imprisonment by the South Australia Court of Appeal today (22 June, 2022).
The Commonwealth successfully appealed for an increased sentence after the man, 49, was sentenced to eight years, nine months and 19 days imprisonment in 2021.”
Source: https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media ... qK6a5pSW8E
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It is Moyle. The sentence is still shorter than others with similar overseas offending.
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