Child sex offenders nabbed after girl sets up
Website
August 1 2002
Four men have pleaded guilty to child sex offences after a 15-year-old
Victorian schoolgirl set up a website with explicit photos of herself.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court today was told the men, all in their 20s,
allegedly met the girl in internet chatrooms from where she gave them
links to her site which carried sexually explicit language and photos of
herself.
After viewing the site and reading the girl's text, the men arranged to
have sex with her throughout 1999.
The girl had initially set up the site with schoolfriends using another
Internet website which allows people to build their own homepage.
The four men all waived their right to a pre-trial committal hearing in
court today and entered guilty pleas to charges of sexual penetration of
a child aged between 10 and 16.
One of the men, Geoffrey Townsend, 27, of Pakenham, also faces a separate
charge of causing a child to take part in prostitution after he paid the
girl for sex.
In some of the schoolgirl's chatroom meetings, it was allegedly suggested
that she could make money from the Internet liaisons.
Troy Hill, 26, of Boronia, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of sexual
penetration of a child and one count of making child pornography.
Rick Gryzb, 24, of Bentleigh, and Aaron Hirt, 28, of Cranbourne, each
pleaded guilty to three child sex charges.
Police were tipped off by welfare workers who had been contacted by
teachers when word of the website spread.
Police subsequently closed the site.
The four men will face a plea hearing in the County Court on October 15.
A fifth man, Kent Matthews, 23, of Wheelers Hill, is facing five charges,
including sexual penetration of child between 10 and 16.
He will face a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on
October 10.
No evidence linking professor rat as a 22 yo to the 5 time fornication in
one day with a 15 yo has been alleged.Thank Fuck.