19 Apr 2008 - World News

Quebec organizer of child porn ring sentenced to 20 months
Paul Cherry, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, April 17

LONGUEUIL, Que. - While Marcel Deslauriers obsessively gathered child pornography over the Internet in his dingy basement apartment south of Montreal, he had no way of knowing that somewhere in Edmonton, 3,600 kilometres away, a clever bit of police work would seal his fate.

Deslauriers, 29, was sentenced Thursday to a 20-month prison term for his role as an administrator in an Internet chat room where pedophiles from around the world gathered to exchange child pornography.

As a chat room administrator, the unemployed man could decide who could enter the Kiddypics & Kiddyvids site and who should be kicked out.

Marcel Deslauriers, shown at the Longueuil courthouse in May 2007, was sentenced to 20 months in jail.

While gathering child pornography files for himself, Deslauriers accessed the chat room with anonymity for six years under the nickname Fydei. But in January 2006, the chat room was compromised by a swift police operation in Edmonton.

Members of the Toronto police child exploitation unit, which specializes in patrolling the Internet, tipped off the Edmonton police about Carl Treleaven, a resident the unit had been investigating for a while.

When the Edmonton police burst into Treleaven's home, he was seated in front of his computer and was using the chat room.

"I just look at the pictures. I don't hurt anybody," Treleaven blurted out during the raid. He confessed he looked at the pictures "to make the feelings go away."

The police simply took over Treleaven's computer account and pretended to be him in the chat room while gathering evidence for weeks against people in Australia, Britain, the United States and Canada.

At a news conference held in March 2006, former U.S. attorney general Alberto Gonzales announced that more than 40 people had been arrested worldwide.

Ten days before the news conference, Deslauriers was quietly arrested by the Surete du Quebec. When they searched his apartment they found six computers and more than 1,000 computer files of child pornography including many photos of children in bondage.

Facing an airtight case, Deslauriers pleaded guilty on Nov. 24, 2006, to one count each of possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography.

He agreed to be evaluated by three experts. A pre-sentencing report filed to Quebec Court Judge Denis Bouchard evaluated Deslauriers as a "low to moderate risk" of reoffending.

The risk elevates if he continues his current fascination with adult pornography, which, Deslauriers admitted to a psychologist, helps control his pedophile fantasies.

Prosecutor Helene Decarie had asked for a two-year prison term to be followed by three years of probation. Defence lawyer Yves Tetreault recommended the one-year mandatory minimum that comes with a conviction for distributing child pornography.

Bouchard chose a 20-month prison term, half the sentence Treleaven received in an Alberta court for also serving as a chat room administrator.

However, Deslauriers had no criminal record while Treleaven had prior convictions involving minors. People who acted as chat room administrators in the U.S. have received prison terms between seven and 20 years. The chat room's host, an American named Royal Weller, was sentenced to 10 years in a Tennessee case.

Decarie also informed Bouchard that Deslauriers helped the police locate a Trois-Rivieres man who sexually assaulted his daughter to produce child pornography.

Bouchard ruled that Deslauriers should be closely monitored for three years after he leaves prison. He is required to follow therapy, meet regularly with a probation officer and is not allowed to own a computer or to use the Internet.

During probation, he will also not be allowed to go near a park or school or hold a job or volunteer work that place him in the authority of children. He is also required to turn over a sample of his DNA to the national criminal database.

03 Apr 2008 - World News

April 03, 2008 01:10pm
A MAN who admitted using the internet to try and lure young girls into sex games has escaped going to jail - after insisting outside court he had committed no crime.

Rocco Baldino, 49, of Elizabeth North, was sentenced in the District Court today after pleading guilty to two counts of communicating with the intention of making a child amenable to sexual activity.

Judge Dean Clayton decided there were "good" reasons to suspend Baldino's 27-month jail sentence and 18 month non-parole period.

But prior to being sentenced, Baldino said outside court police should not waste money "on people who have not done any crime".

"There are people in this building who have done the crime, I haven't done this crime, I am innocent and will always be innocent," he said.

"I will have more to say when I come out," he said. But after being sentenced, Baldino declined to say anything as he left the court.

Baldino was caught by police who posed as 13- and 14-year-old girls during an internet operation in April, 2006.

Judge Clayton said Baldino made contact with the "girls" in a chat room and invited them to join him in a motel for sexual actitivites.

"During the chats you performed quite explicit sexual acts which were captured on your web camera and transmitted to the persons you were communicating with," he said.

The court heard Baldino's offending happened at a time when he had too much time on his hands.

His lawyer, Stephen Ey, had argued the court should take into account that Baldino had been the subject of police "entrapment".

Judge Clayton said today that while Baldino may have been "led along" by police, "your actions were deliberate".

"It's significant while you may have been led on by the police officers, you did initiate the contact yourself and you chose to continue after the girls' ages were revealed."

He said he accepted that Baldino's actions were "predatory behaviour" and there was an inference that he was prepared to go beyond communicating with the girls and to "follow the matter through".

But Judge Clayton said a combination of factors made him decide to suspend his sentence, including that Baldino pleaded guilty early, had no prior convictions for similar offences, no real child received the communications and there was no evidence Baldino was a pedophile.

He ordered Baldino perform 150 hours of community service.

01 Apr 2008 - World News

A MAN charged with sexually assaulting two girls and making child pornography might have assaulted more than 100 other girls, police believe.

The 30-year-old Pakenham man was charged last week with sexual penetration of a child under 16 and making and possessing child pornography after police identified two Victorian girls depicted in photographs found on his computer.

It is alleged that he met the girls through internet chat sites. Suspicions were raised when the parents of one girl discovered her talking to the man via one of the sites, and child pornography was later found by police on his computer.

As well as pictures of the two girls identified, there were hundreds of photographs of other girls aged between 13 and 15 that police believe he took himself, dating back as far as 2004, along with child pornography that he allegedly downloaded from the internet.

Leading Senior Constable Paul Clavering said the man had travelled to Wangaratta to assault one girl, but said the nature of the alleged offences meant he did not know where other victims might live.

"I can't answer that. He's admitted his intention when he accesses the chat-room site is to groom them for sex, or for making the pornography, so the fact that he's been able to come up with a photograph would suggest to me that he's met them," Senior Constable Clavering said.

"There's a series, it's not just one you'd get off a webcam. If that's the case, it's a natural progression to the sex part. At the moment it's just the two victims, but I could be opening a Pandora's box."

The photographs are variously of girls wearing school uniforms, partly clothed and naked. It is believed some were taken at the man's house and some at the homes of the girls.

Senior Constable Clavering said police want any girls who believe they might have been assaulted by the man to come forward. He also said it is important that parents be vigilant when their children use the internet.

"I need for the parents to be aware of the children on the internet, and if they've got any suspicions they need to talk to them, and if they think that they might have met up with someone like this, they need to report it to the police, whether it be related to this case or any others," he said.

Senior Constable Clavering said the man was adept at gaining the confidence of his alleged victims, buying them presents and coining nicknames for them.

The man is Caucasian with short dark hair, 170 centimetres tall, of thin build, wears glasses and is clean-shaven. He is due to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on May 23.

24 Feb 2008 - World News

JEREMY ROBERTS was a senior teacher, housemaster and cricket coach at a top private school for boys when he was caught sending child porn images to an undercover police officer.

On Friday, the 53-year-old apologised for the first time since his arrest last year, telling how it had destroyed his life and family.

The former year 10 English teacher at The Armidale School - one of the country's oldest rural private schools - pleaded guilty to eight charges relating to the production and distribution of child pornography at Sydney District Court.

Forty charges were initially laid following his arrest last March, which came after a lengthy investigation by detectives from the child exploitation internet unit.

Most of the charges were dropped, mainly because they overlapped, his solicitor Greg Walsh said.

Outside the court, Mr Walsh told The Sun-Herald his client was deeply remorseful.

"He is absolutely devastated by his own conduct," Mr Walsh said. "He has destroyed his whole life.

"Mr Roberts truly regrets what he has done."

He said Roberts was a devoted family man: "He is absolutely devoted and [his actions were] so inconsistent with him as a human being," Mr Walsh said. "His wife is still supporting him [but] it has put enormous pressure on their relationship."

Roberts has been on conditional bail since his arrest and has since moved to Sydney from Armidale, where he had lived on the school's 25-hectare grounds. His family has been living separately.

Roberts's arrest came after he sent child pornography to an officer posing as a pedophile in internet chat rooms.

Local police and detectives from the Child Protection and Serious Sex Crimes Squad then raided his schoolground residence.

Two laptops, digital cameras and electronic devices were seized for forensic analysis.

At the time, a letter was sent to all parents reassuring them that no harm had come to their children.

School principal Murray Guest said the allegations did not relate to any of the 600 students at the 114-year-old school on the NSW northern tablelands.

The school is an Anglican boarding and day school for boys, with 200 boarders and 220 day students.

Its 180-student junior school, which educates children as young as four, is co-educational.

Roberts will be sentenced in the District Court on April 18.

01 Jan 2008 - World News

The Channel 10 investigation that caught men attempting to meet 13-year-old girls broadcast a few weeks ago, and reports of a major Internet pedophile ring uncovered in Germany last month, have highlighted the frightening aspects of the Web - as well as the extent to which fear boosts ratings.

"The Internet's connection to pedophilia has created a modern-day fairy tale whereby the Web is a Black Forest teeming with monsters," says Dr. Mike Dahan, who lectures on science, technology and society at Bar-Ilan University, and digital culture at Sapir College. "It's nothing new. Look back at the 1990s, at the Time magazine scandal, where they supposedly revealed that children are exposed to tremendous amounts of pornography online."

The article that provoked massive hysteria was based on research by a student at Carnegie Mellon University. It maintained that pornography was a mainstay of the content children found online.
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"In retrospect, it became clear that the findings were exaggerated and fabricated," Dahan says. "Since then, the best way to make headlines has become to associate the Internet with pedophilia. It's voyeuristic, and it plays on the fear of technology and what it brings into our homes. Similar headlines were blasted on television in the 1970s and 1980s."

Dahan, a father of four, does not deny that potential sexual predators and people with questionable intents use the Internet. However, he stresses that the Internet apparently has not increased the number of sexually violent acts.

"Use of the Internet does not turn individuals into pedophiles," says Dahan. "One interesting study of pedophiles, conducted in Germany, found that only 20 percent used a computer, and only 6 percent actively used a computer to entice victims. In general, there is no proof to the claim that the Internet promotes pedophilia. To some extent, it even makes it easier to catch them, as we saw in Germany."

Despite that, Zvia Elgali, a safe browsing advisor at the Israel Internet Association, says that even if the Web did not increase the phenomenon of pedophilia, it did make it easier for predators to contact children, communicate among themselves, and hide behind false identities. Elgali says that at a recent workshop for children, she met an 8-year-old girl who is frequently home alone and chats with a variety of people on the ICQ chat program. "One of them presented himself as another girl. He sent her digital gifts - cute icons - and gave her a lot of attention and affection. He also asked her to switch their mode of communication to video chat," says Elgali.

Elgali contacted the girl's mother and suggested that the mother and daughter hook up the Web cam together. They discovered the girl's friend was actually a man.

"Now I'm very sad because no one sends me presents every day," the girl said.

But how can you keep children safe without provoking panic? Elgali says that the less time one spends with one's child, the more that child is exposed to risks.

"It is enough for a parent to take an interest in what the child does online - not in a threatening manner, but out of a desire to know. That alone helps the child stay on the better side of the Internet. There is no reason for children to surf the Web without an adult present - it's simply wrong. It's worth sitting with the child when he is first learning to browse, to play with him and work on the computer. That sends the message, 'This is something we can do together - I care about what you do there.' It is also always wise to keep the computer within the parent's range of vision, in the living room or next to the kitchen."

Windows Vista or Apple Mac OS X users may take advantage of built-in parental controls to monitor their children's browsing, choose the sites they can visit, and limit the time they spend online. Others may employ software like System Surveillance Pro, which logs every keystroke and can even send parents screenshots via e-mail of what their child is seeing. But Elgali firmly opposes such tactics. "I think it's terrible - completely 'Big Brother.' It violates the trust between parent and child."

Then, what should parents do?

"I would make an agreement with the child to tell me if he encounters a site that is shocking or not good for children. That works really well at younger ages. They do report to their parents, and parental approval is important to them."

In adolescence, the desire to please parents is less significant. "But if you have defined the principles of right and wrong from a young age, it will protect them when they surf to a forbidden site or speak with someone they shouldn't." Elgali is not opposed to Web filtering, but she advises parents to tell their children that they are being filtered and explain the reason, rather than to do so behind their backs.

All Internet service providers also sell parental controls. Many providers employ iKeeper technology under various labels, which filters content and facilitates limiting hours of use. "That produces good results," says Dahan. "The problem is that it also tends to block unrelated sites - such as most political content, extremist and moderate. You can't access information about breast cancer, and I imagine that a child who is interested in learning about sexual identity won't be able to access the appropriate pages."

Younger children can use Web browsers designed for them, like KidRocket and My Kids Browser, which employ a limited list of permitted sites. KidRocket's list is very minimal, and sites cannot be added under its latest version. My Kids Browser, however, allows for the addition of new sites.

Glubble, a plug-in for the Firefox browser, also provides a "white list" of permissible sites. It ensures that the results of Google and Yahoo searches are appropriate for children, and also allows children to send an adult a request for permission to use a specific link while surfing. The adult may permit the child to view an entire site or only the specific page requested.

But Elgali believes that parents should focus their efforts on preventive parenting. "You should discuss these matters ahead of time, rather than wait for a tragedy to happen. And the most important thing is to employ reason and not be afraid."

01 Jan 2008 - World News

Well-known Eastwood instructor caught in child-luring investigation

A former Kitchener teacher was given a curfew yesterday for having Internet "chat sex" with an undercover cop posing as a 13-year-old girl.

Paul Schalm, 54, must be home between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. under the terms of a six-month conditional sentence imposed in Superior Court.

An award-winning teacher and school pianist at Eastwood Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Schalm was nabbed in an Ontario Provincial Police investigation into child pornography and luring in March 2006.

He admitted contacting the officer, whom he believed to be a Toronto girl, and accurately describing himself in a Yahoo chat room about 1 a.m. as a teacher in Kitchener.

Crown prosecutor Mike Murdoch said Schalm then flirted, asked about her sexual experiences and suggested she touch her genitals.

There was a second sexual online conversation between Schalm and the officer two days later. Police tracked Schalm to his home, obtained a search warrant, seized his computer and arrested him for child luring.

Sexual offences involving children generally result in jail terms.

Justice Gerry Taylor, however, agreed with submissions that Schalm should be an exception because of several factors in his favour.

Chief among them was that Schalm, who had no prior record, didn't try to set up a face-to-face meeting with the officer and specifically said he wasn't interested in real sex.

He also got counselling from a psychologist who concluded through testing that Schalm isn't a pedophile or a sexual predator.

Taylor also stressed that Schalm confessed to the congregation at his church soon after his arrest, a step that "must have been an exceedingly difficult thing to do."

A tall, clean-cut man with a wife and two grown sons, Schalm appeared in court alone, calmly reading a book before his case came up.

Defence lawyer Bruce Ritter submitted numerous reference letters describing Schalm as a caring, responsible man who does charity work.

He also read a letter from Schalm apologizing for his actions.

"Overall, this has been a tragic nightmare, both for me and my family," he wrote. Schalm said he had never spoken inappropriately to a child before and has spent a lot of time praying to overcome his shame and sadness.

"I endeavour to live a life worthy to bear the name 'Christian,' " he wrote.

Murdoch described the crime as "an almost incomprehensible lapse of judgment."

Assigned to home duties with pay after his arrest, Schalm has since retired from the Waterloo Region District School Board. He spent 30 years as a math teacher at Eastwood, where he won an award in 2003 for teaching excellence.

Schalm was also a conductor with the Kitchener Musical Society Band, a role he gave up because of the embarrassment of his arrest.

As part of his sentence, Schalm must do 100 hours of community service work, take counselling and stay away from anyone under 18.

01 Jan 2008 - World News

Right now your son or daughter could be talking to a sexual predator. The pedophile may be in their room right now, invited in through an internet chat room.

"You don't really know who is on the internet, you don't know who you are chatting with," said Gilbert Police Officer Dave Rich. According to Rich 1 out of every 6 children will be approached online by a sexual predator this year.

The Gilbert Police Officer has investigated dozens of internet crimes involving pedophiles who lure kids through the internet. advertisement

Rich says the crimes can range from sexual assault to kidnapping, and in some cases murder. "It really scares me that someone could be pretending to be someone else and talking to my kids," said Leslie Mull.

The mother of 2 young kids Mull attended a predator program but on by the Gilbert Police Department. The program teaches parents about the dangers of online predators and what to do to keep their kids safe, "I learned a lot from the class, it opened my eyes," said Shawn Tedesco.

According to Rich some predators will spend upwards of 2 years building a relationship before asking the child to meet them, "The parents have no idea it's going on," said Rich.

Rich says the most important thing parents need to do is talk with their kids about chat rooms and what they're doing online.

He also suggests computers be kept in a common area where kids can't use it without someone seeing what they're doing. The computer at the Mull house is right next to the kitchen, "I want to be able to see what website my kids are on at all times," said Mull.

01 Jan 2008 - World News

Dec 4, 2007

NEW YORK (AFP) — New York's Roman Catholic Church is trying a novel approach to alert children to the danger of being sexually assaulted by a priest, with an abuse-themed coloring book, officials said Tuesday.

"Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic," was distributed earlier this year to several hundred schools in the New York area as part of the church's Safe Environment Program, a spokeswoman from the city's Archdiocese said.

One image in the book features a guardian angel hovering over an altar boy with a priest lurking in the background.

"For safety's sake, a child and an adult shouldn't be alone in a closed room together," the angel counsels. In another, the angel warns of a sexual predator attempting to chat with a child over the Internet.

David Clohessy, head of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, cautiously welcomed the initiative, but said it did not go far enough.

"We applaud the intent but worry a bit about the approach... it does still feel like almost every step taken by the hierarchy is one that's been prompted by external pressure," he told AFP.

The scale of child abuse by priests remained hidden in the United States for years until the Archbishop of Boston confessed in 2002 to protecting a priest he knew had sexually abused young members of his church.

According to the group "Bishop Accountability," some 3,000 priests out of the 42,000 across the country have since been denounced, some of whom have been investigated and convicted.

Since the scandal broke, US Catholic authorities have paid out close to 2.8 billion dollars in damages, forcing many dioceses to sell off their assets.

01 Jan 2008 - World News

SACRAMENTO - Clifford Doty's career in education came to an end when he was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for sending child pornography over the Internet.

Throughout his criminal case and for months afterward, however, his California state teaching credential remained valid. It was in effect without so much as a notation that its holder had been criminally charged with a sex-related offense.

Doty was arrested in November 2000 trying to meet someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl, a rendezvous he arranged through a chat room called "Widdle Gurls."

After pleading guilty in June 2001, the former Palmdale Unified elementary school vice principal wrote the state credentialing commission himself the following February asking that his license be revoked, which it subsequently was.

Doty's case is among dozens in California uncovered by the Associated Press in which teachers' credentials remained valid even after they had been arrested or charged for sex-related offenses.

7-month inquiry

In most cases, California law requires quick action - often within 10 days - against educators who are accused or convicted of sex crimes.

During a review of more than 300 cases of sexual misconduct by California educators from 2001 to 2005, the AP found delays of months and sometimes years before the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing took action.

California's data is part of a seven-month investigation in which AP reporters sought records on teacher discipline in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
In some cases, teachers accused of crimes are put behind bars as their cases work through the court system, putting them out of reach of children even if their credentials remain valid. At the time of Doty's arrest, state law did not require that credentials be automatically suspended for Internet sex charges, a legal loophole that has since been closed.

It is those teachers and administrators who remain free and eligible to teach after being arrested that pose the greatest concern. Gauging the extent of that problem is nearly impossible, however, because the state refuses to release the information that would allow the public to scrutinize how long it takes the credential commission to act.

The California Department of Justice provides detailed arrest and conviction reports from local law enforcement agencies to the commission and other state agencies each day. The list is based on names and fingerprints that have previously been submitted for background checks.

Independent checks

But the commission does not rely on the list from the Justice Department to make decisions about teachers' credentials, said Mary Armstrong, legal counsel to the commission.

Instead, the commission seeks to independently verify each of the alleged offenses or charges before taking even preliminary action. That can delay the commission from suspending or revoking a teacher's license for months, or longer, although Armstrong said the typical delay is only a few days.

"We verify the DOJ information by getting court documents. In this day of electronic capabilities, some courts we can find out almost immediately. Other courts, it takes longer," Armstrong said. "We act as quickly as we can."

Justice Department spokesman Gareth Lacey said the arrest reports provided by the agency are credible and come from police and sheriff's departments.

"It's pretty obvious this fingerprint match is a positive identification and it's totally accurate," Lacey said.

It is impossible to assess how quickly the commission acts, however. Citing privacy laws, the Justice Department denied a request from the AP under the California Public Records Act to release the daily reports.

The delays raise the possibility that pedophile teachers can remain in contact with children, even after they have been arrested on sex-crime allegations.

One case attracted international attention last year - that of John Mark Karr, who was arrested in Thailand after falsely claiming to be the killer of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

The former Sonoma County substitute teacher became a fugitive after he was charged in April 2001 with downloading child pornography.

Yet it was not until April 2002, a full year after he was charged, that Karr's teaching credential was suspended. It was another year before the commission finally revoked his license.

If Karr had applied for a teaching position anywhere else in that first year, a check of his California credential would not have revealed any problems to a potential employer.

Armstrong, the commission's legal counsel, said it was Karr's flight from justice that delayed action by the commission, allowing him to keep his license longer.

"It was held up because he was a fugitive," she said, noting that his flight forced an administrative review of his case.

"That took longer than it should've. . . . He got kind of an unintended benefit because he was a fugitive."

Once teachers have been convicted of a serious crime, the law is less specific about when the credential commission must revoke their license, requiring only that it act "forthwith."

Armstrong acknowledged it can sometimes take months for courts to report the details of criminal convictions. The commission is further prevented from taking action until the verdict is considered final, which can mean further delays during sentencing and appeals.

The lag between the time teachers are arrested and when the credentialing commission takes action can be crucial for another reason. Like other states, California submits the names of those who have had their licenses suspended or revoked to a nationwide registry.

The registry is used by most states to review applicants for teaching positions. While the commission waits for the confirmation it desires, those teachers can move elsewhere and apply for new jobs.

'It's also prevention'

Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena, said it is essential the state act quickly to get these teachers out of the classroom, even if the investigation is ongoing.

"I'm concerned, if indeed, that perhaps the turnaround time is not as the law required," Scott said. "Not only does a law like this remove people from teaching, but when that happens . . . it's also prevention."

Scott wrote the law requiring school districts to quickly report crimes by teachers and others to close reporting loopholes.

In a critical audit last year, the non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office recommended that some of the credentialing commission's authority be relinquished to other state education agencies. It called the commission's system "extremely complicated and nuanced, inefficient and riddled with redundancies, poorly integrated and largely unaccountable."

01 Jan 2008 - World News

THREE Caboolture child molesters who took their victims camping have had their sentences increased in Brisbane District Court.

The men formed a pedophile ring in 2000 and befriended – and then violated – up to six young boys at various locations across southeast Queensland, including Somerset Dam.

The boys were aged between 10 and 15 at the time, some of them brothers and school friends.

All came to trust and be in the care of the pedophiles for extended periods, although how the men procured their victims was not revealed in court.

US authorities alerted Australian police in 2004 when they intercepted obscene messages from one of the accused in an internet chat room.

In 2005, the men received sentences between seven and nine years' jail with various possible parole dates for maintaining sexual relationships with children. Yesterday, each had 18 months added to their terms after new evidence was submitted.

Shannon Lee Voigt, 31, pleaded guilty to an additional 43 charges of indecently dealing with children and will be eligible for parole in September 2009.

Earl James Henderson, 33, pleaded guilty to a further 27 counts of indecently dealing with children and had his parole eligibility date extended to April this year, but will only be released when authorities deem him fit to re-enter the community.

Leigh William Andrews, 27, pleaded guilty to another 56 child-sex offences and will be eligible for parole in May next year.

Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller said the crimes under consideration yesterday were not as serious as those that led to the trio's earlier convictions and successfully sought extended head sentences and parole eligibility dates.

Judge Milton Griffin, SC, said the extended sentences "might seem strangely moderate and mild to one who does not know the circumstances" but the crimes were nonetheless "disgusting and horrific offences against children".

Voigt, Henderson and Andrews will have to complete sex offenders' rehabilitation programs before they can be considered eligible for parole.

Henderson has just started the last module of the program and if he satisfies the authorities, can be released into the community when he finishe