Paedophiles: Should Be Destroyed Like the Lives They Destroy!
Guilty By His Own Admission
A September hearing into Australia’s worst paedophile has made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Ashley Griffith confessed to over 300 offenses he committed at childcare centers in Brisbane, Australia, and Pisa, Italy, over a nineteen year period between 2003 and 2022.
The charges against him included 28 counts of rape, 190 counts of indecent treatment, 67 counts of making child exploitation material, four counts of producing such material, and one count of distributing it.
He was charged in November last year with more than 1,600 child sex offenses, but most of these were eventually dropped.
When asked in court if he had anything to say, he just shook his head and indicated ‘No.’
The court was told that he had recorded his offenses on his phone or with a camera as trophies of his antics.
The Dirty Dozen series looks at people who display extremely unethical behavior. This guy takes the cake!
A Broken System but No Excuse
This case, like many others before, raises several questions:
– How did this guy ever get the required qualifications for childcare, or at least how did he retain them for so long?
– Why were previous reports of his behavior from his parents ignored?
– Why was a formal report by one of the childcare centers of him allegedly kissing a young girl on the lips dismissed?
The system is broken!
There will be a psychiatric report, but for what purpose? The guy confessed, and nobody in their right mind would do the things he did. He has marred the lives of over sixty victims.
Having experienced sexual abuse, it doesn’t go away, and it is always there. It haunts you in some way, shape, or form for life.
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Capital Punishment: Life Is Not Enough
So here is my bombshell — love it or hate it, it is how I feel.
He should not be allowed to live!
Amnesty International (2022) states fifty-five countries still have the death penalty. The highest are in China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, where more than 100 people were executed in 2022. In the US, there were 18, and 11 in Singapore.
Unfortunately, capital punishment and the death sentence were abolished in Australia in 1985. The last person to be executed was Ronald Ryan in 1967.
He killed a prison guard while escaping from jail. Many since him should have been denied their life for destroying the lives they have taken from one or more people.
There is still a lot of debate about ‘the death sentence.’ The harshest penalty in Australia is life imprisonment, but it is not life. It is a sentence between 15 and 25 years, with an allowance for early parole for good behavior.
Life without parole is just 25 years without exception, but sentences are not additive. If you kill one person or ten, the maximum sentence is still the same.
Scum of the Earth
In this case and others, such as an earlier case this month where a man poured a hot cup of coffee over a baby in a park, causing extensive third-degree burns that will scar that baby for life, twenty- five years at most in prison hardly seems like justice to me.
Young children, certainly those under 10 years, are innocent beings, and to abuse that innocence should deny the perpetrators any leniency.
I doubt whether Ashley Griffith will survive in prison without isolation and special protection. Hardened criminals take a dim view of paedophiles.
Fellow prisoners have already attacked Griffith. He suffered facial burns after a combination of jam and boiling water (“jail napalm”) was poured over Griffith. The mixture sticks to the skin, making the burn more severe and painful.
What happens with his sentence is yet to be seen. For now, all I can do is put him at the top of my list of the Dirty Dozen (revisited). It should certainly be more than 25 years in jail.
What are your thoughts about this guy and paedophile punishment?
A worthy member of the Dirty Dozen?
Till next time, thanks for reading my story,
Calvin
