NATION Fight to halt sex fiend’s release
A DEPRAVED sex monster who is due to be released on parole would pose an “imminent’’ risk to the public if he was let loose on the streets, officials have warned.
The NSW State Government has now launched an unprecedented legal fight to keep the state’s sickest paedophile behind bars. The 31- year- old high- risk sex offender, who cannot be named, was due to be let out of prison three days ago. But the NSW Supreme Court was told he would be an “imminent” risk to “adults, children and animals” if he was allowed his freedom.
The last time he was free in 2011, the predator lived in a Criminal Justice Program residential centre under the strictest and most intensive supervision ever imposed in the state outside a jail.
That centre at Woolgoolga has refused to have him back after he revealed his sick fantasies to kill all the other inmates and the staff, then kill the wives of staff members and defile their bodies.
The government was forced to use tough new laws for the first time on Monday, applying for an Emergency Detention Order to keep the man in jail after Justice Christine Adamson last week ruled he could be released. The EDO will last until 3.05pm on Friday.
It gives the State of NSW time to use every weapon in its legal arsenal to keep the man, who has been described in court as a sexual deviant who has raped children as young as 12 months, locked up.
Attorney- General Mark Speakman yesterday revealed the government will be seeking an Interim Detention Order to keep the fiend in jail until the court can hear their application for a Continuing Detention Order. Under a CDO, the man can be locked up for a maximum of five years.
The government can then apply for another CDO.
“The offender remains in custody as a result of a successful application by the State for an Emergency Detention Order, the first ever in NSW,” Mr Speakman said yesterday.
EDOs were introduced into law in 2014 to strengthen the supervision of high risk sex and violent offenders who present a risk of further serious offending when their sentence expires and they are legally entitled to be back on the streets.
The Supreme Court heard last week that the man suffers from a hereditary blood condition known as porphyria which causes episodes of inhibition.
He is a paedophile who first went to jail in 2007 after he pleaded guilty to sexual intercourse with a five- year- old girl.
Judge Deborah Payne in the District Court jailed him for four years with a non- parole period of two years three months.
On release he was sent to the Mercy Centre at Woolgoolga under the Criminal Justice Program on an Extended Supervision Order.
However, the man was locked up in August 2013 after telling his counsellor he had committed 18 offences against children aged one to nine between 1996 and 2004.
In 2015 he was jailed by Judge Robert Toner for four years with a non- parole period of two years.
That sentence Monday. ended on