Qld Supreme Court Rules That a Violent Criminal and Sex Offender Can Run a Childcare Centre

Would you allow a guy with this record care for your kids? During a two-month spree in 1982, he variously grabbed a 23-year-old woman's crotch, grabbed the crotch and breasts of a 29-year-old woman and exposed to her his penis and pulled up the T-shirt of a 20-year-old woman, grabbed her breast and invited her to perform fellatio. He also approached a 15-year-old girl and asked her to sit on his penis and entered another woman's car without her consent, ignored her requests to get out and grabbed her breasts, pushing off her bikini top in the process. The tribunal heard that the man's subsequent record including a drink driving offence in 1988, a 1992 incident in which he entered a woman's bedroom and pulled down her nightdress, road rage and a 2002 episode at a hotel where he racially abused patrons, groped two policewomen and made sexually lewd remarks to an elderly woman after grabbing her bottom – though charges were not laid in the two latter incidents. He was convicted for cocaine possession in 2003, had to pay for the damages after he urinated on the floor of a hotel in 2003, was charged over an altercation on a golf course – though the charges were later withdrawn – and fined for opening a childcare centre without a licence in 2004. He also faced allegations of domestic violence by two former partners and reported to the Department of Community Services in 2015 after one of his teenage sons wrote a story about his dad swearing and hitting him. READ THE FULL ARTICLE