Inquiry Into Child Protection Launched After Australia’s ‘Worst’ Paedophile Went Undetected for Years

It comes after one of the country’s worst paedophiles appealed his life sentence.

Court sketch of Ashley Paul Griffith at sentencing in Brisbane District Court, Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 28, 2024. AAP Image/Pool, 7News Queensland

The Queensland government has initiated an independent review into how one of the nation’s worst paedophiles, Ashley Paul Griffith, was able to offend for nearly two decades undetected.

Griffith, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2024 for more than 300 offences committed at childcare centres in Brisbane and Italy, is appealing his sentence.