Saturday, February 28, 2015

AUSSIES IN CRIME

Scully- the "porn king"
Though this story is not really related to our visit to Australia, I just wanted to share it with everyone, so we are all on guard, wherever we might find ourselves.

Today, the Australian Federal Police are preparing to travel over to the Philippines to assist local authorities who have charged an Australian national from Melbourne with homicide, kidnapping  and sexual abuse of young kids, some even as little as a year old.

51 year old Peter Gerard Scully was arrested on the sexual abuse charges last week, after authorities recovered the remains of a young girl in his former rented home. On February 25, 2015, a team of National Bureau of Intelligence (NBI) operatives went to Surigao City in Surigao del Norte, Philippines to check on a house where Scully used to live where they recovered the remains of what they suspect to be the 10-year-old girl that Scully allegedly abducted from Talakag town in Bukidnon, based on information received from Scully’s former live-in-partner named Margallo. It is believed that the girl was murdered in July 2013. Scully had promised the girl's parents that he would send the girl to school. He took her to Cagayan de Oro, then to Surigao City. The NBI has already started the DNA test on the remains, to check if they match the sample taken from the girl's parents.

This is just one incident out of the many he crimes he is being charged with. Scully is also accused of sexually assaulting girls as young as a year old, who is now three – horrible acts he recorded and broadcast over the Internet for his paying clients who were located all over Europe. He is known to have preyed on girls in depressed areas and lured them with the promise of food and clothes, after which he abused them sexually. He worked with a female victim-now turned accomplice, Carme Ann "Angel" Alvarez, whose job was to lure hungry unsuspecting innocent little girls with food into their lair- the rented apartment which was a chamber of horrors of sorts. There, the girls were forced to perform certain sexual acts both on each other and on Scully, while being photographed and filmed. Scully performed these sexual acts according to his client’s instructions. They were also made to dig their own graves in the backyard of the rented apartment so they could be buried easily- just in case they died from the torture of their abuser. Aside all these, he forced the little girls to drinks bottles of alcohol, so he could have his way easier, otherwise, he just tied them. Investigations by local authorities have led them to at least seven other girls that he had abused his cybersex operations. His racket has been active for around three years and he had been on the  "wanted list" for numerous cases of alleged human trafficking and child pornography in Cagayan de Oro City.

Angelito Magno, head of that region's National Bureau of Investigation, said Scully's arrest was ordered last November on charges of rape and human trafficking, after two teenage girls were found naked and chained in the bedroom of an apartment he rented. He was however finally arrested in the southern city of Malaybalay on February 20 after a three-week stake-out. Authorities in the Philippines said Scully was working with foreign accomplices in his child pornography operation and launched a manhunt for four foreigners believed to be involved. Certain videos showing the sexual abuse of minors, including a one-year-old child, were recovered from Scully. He is believed to have killed a lot more children than the one body recovered indicates, with some sort of systematic torture of these children until death.

The AFP confirmed that it had worked closely with Philippine and Dutch law enforcement officers in relation to the matter. A team from the federal police would head over to the Philippines as early as Monday. The Interpol is leading the investigation to uncover the scale of Scully’s network.

All over Australia, crimes involving manslaughter and murder have been reported, with the perpetrators arrested and charged. Today, the South Australian Police reopened over 100 unsolved murder cases, whose details are to be reviewed. The police still hoe to solve the 13 murders, some of which date as far back as the 1960s. This review is being done with the hope that people with any information relevant to the investigations would come forward and help apprehend the criminals involved.
 
Authorities leading a Handcuffed Scully away after arrest.
 By Edwina Owusu-Adjapong. 






2 comments:

  1. Wow! This was a very intense report on this sick man. I wonder if the buyers of his videos/pictures could be found and arrested, also. I wonder when he started doing all these things, and I find it so crazy the way that he found a way of doing these things because he lured families of kids into believing that he was going to help them. It really is disgusting, but it's a relief that he has been caught! Hope more people like this are put in jail--where they belong.

    Carlos Aguilar

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  2. Yeah, I just got really angry when I read it . The Interpol is working on nabbing his partners. There was such an uproar by the masses in Philippines against just imprisoning him because the people feel imprisonment isn't punishment enough for all he did. Some people are calling for the death sentence to be brought back, just for him . The Philippine social welfare authorities are also investigating the cases of the various parents who gave their daughters to Scully because that was kind of an irresponsible thing to do.

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