Paedophile Avoids Jail Over Child Porn

[peter991]

Paedophile avoids jail over child porn

Tuesday Jan 15 19:11 AEDT

An Australian paedophile once convicted of raping Thai girls has avoided jail in Perth for possessing child pornography, including images of adults having sex with children as young as two.

Bradley Pen Dragon was sentenced in the West Australian District Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to possessing more than 800 pornographic images.

He was arrested in June after the images were found on a thumb drive he lost at Perth cinema less than a year after he was deported from Thailand after serving time for threatening, beating and raping three girls.

In the District Court on Tuesday, Judge Antoinette Kennedy described as "very serious" the images which included adults having sex with physically distressed children and a woman engaged in bestiality acts.

She gave him a 12-month suspended jail term and ordered Pen Dragon to undertake a sex offenders treatment program.

She said it would "not be fair" to keep him in jail to complete the treatment program because if he had been sentenced last year he would have been out of jail a month ago. Prosecution delays had deferred his sentencing, she said.

Pen Dragon's lawyer Michael Tudori said his client did not have a full appreciation of his offending but was willing to seek help.

"This man is someone who is willing to do treatment," Mr Tudori told the court.

"He's trying to get assistance."

WA's Corrective Services Minister Margaret Quirk later said it had taken six months to prepare psychological and pre-sentence reports for Pen Dragon because of a significant increase in demand from the courts.

"The department tries to have these reports completed in 6-8 weeks but there are circumstances beyond our control that can cause delays," she said.

"We only have five external contractors qualified to carry out this specialist work."

The government was seeking extra contractors to do the work, she said.

[Jai Dee]

Pedophile given a suspended sentence

A PERTH pedophile who spent 13 years in a Thai jail has been given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.

Bradley Pen Dragon, who was found guilty in Thailand of threatening, beating and raping three girls, was released from a Thai jail in 2006 and deported to Australia. Last year, he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on a computer thumb drive which he tried to claim from police after he lost it at a cinema.

The thumb drive contained 818 pieces of child pornography. Police then raided his home and seized a disc containing 11 further images.

Pen Dragon had been in custody since his arrest last June.

Judge Antoinette Kennedy today told the West Australian District Court there was a limit how long you could keep someone in jail in a free and democratic society. She sentenced him to a 12 month suspended term and ordered him to undergo a sex offenders treatment program.

"If you don't do the program, you will go to jail," Justice Kennedy said.

Pen Dragon's lawyer said he was willing to undergo the treatment program.

The Director of Public Prosecutions said information from Interpol had delayed the case.

Pen Dragon is due to be released after processing.

Source: The Australian - 15 January 2008

[Jai Dee]

Fury as fiend is protected

PARENTS are outraged at the Iemma Government for refusing to tell residents where child rapist Bradley Pendragon is living.

Their reaction came as the rapist, who is facing fresh allegations of raping a Sydney teenager, fled to a new secret location after revelations he was living 250m from a primary school and a childcare centre.

Under the cover of darkness, the bearded paedophile yesterday slipped out of the rear fire door of the Darlinghurst hostel he had been secretly living in since Sunday.

Yesterday, acting police minister David Campbell would not reveal where Pendragon was except that he was still in Sydney and was complying with national child sex offender register rules.

He refused to say whether he was concerned Pendragon had been living so close to a school.

"I've concerns that he's in NSW,'' he said. "The NSW Government didn't want him here, we wanted him to stay in jail in Thailand.''

Mr Campbell said because Pendragon had not committed a crime in NSW, neither the police or the Government could do anything.

The secret nature of his location has angered parents.

Deborah Sorensen had no knowledge he was living near her two-year-old daughter Mia before he fled the Edward Eager Lodge in Darlinghurst yesterday.

"To know someone like that was living here, two blocks from my home and a major park where most of the kids play, is a major concern,'' Ms Sorensen said.

"We should definitely know these people are living in our neighbourhood - put their pictures up in schools, tea rooms and supermarkets so everyone can know.''

Inspector Jenny Hayes said Pendragon had found alternate accommodation and informed police but refused to reveal his whereabouts.

Parent outrage came amid allegations a girl, now in her late teens, told Victoria-based action group Child Wise that she was raped by Pendragon before he moved to Thailand in the early 1990s. No formal complaint has been made to police.

Pendragon's protection has sparked fresh debate about the rights of convicted sex offenders to return to communities following the decision to grant parole and then re-arrest child killer John Lewthwaite.

Source: The Daily Telegraph - 16 January 2008

[Jai Dee]

Some links to previous ThaiVisa threads about this person are below:

Sex Offender Stuck In Deportation Cell, No one wants to pay for his deportation.

Donate To Get A Pedophile Home, ..to Oz!

Thanks to SRJ for the update and links.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Some links to previous ThaiVisa threads about this person are below:

Sex Offender Stuck In Deportation Cell, No one wants to pay for his deportation.

Donate To Get A Pedophile Home, ..to Oz!

Thanks to SRJ for the update and links.

He's a kinda lucky guy I reckon.

[sriracha john]

UPDATE

The convicted Australian pedophile and rapist of Thai girls that is the subject of this thread as well as two other threads:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=76089

Donate To Get A Pedophile Home, ..to Oz!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=75905

Sex Offender Stuck In Deportation Cell, No one wants to pay for his deportation

is back in the news...

Paedophile Wants More Time

Convicted paedophile Bradley Pendragon was again caught looking at child porn at an internet cafe in Perth, only 3 weeks after being released from custody. Bradley was first charged with possession of child pornography in 2007.

Bradley was released on a 12-month suspended sentence, even though he had only recently returned from Thailand where he served time for beating and raping three girls.

The conditions were only that he had to attend a sex offender’s treatment program.

Mr Pendragon was, however, unhappy with his sentence and wanted to appeal, as he saw his punishment as being "too lenient".

Although he was willing to start the sex offender’s treatment, none had been forthcoming.

- news.com.au

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Paedophile pleads guilty to go back to jail

A convicted paedophile caught looking at child pornography at a Perth internet cafe pleaded guilty so he can return to custody, his lawyer says.

Bradley Pendragon, 47, was arrested in an internet cafe yesterday by police investigating a complaint from a member of the public. They found him with a thumb drive (memory stick) containing images of children and he was charged with possessing child pornography.

He appeared in Perth Magistrates Court today where his lawyer, Michael Tudori, told the court Pendragon did not want bail and was pleading guilty so he could return to custody.

Pendragon was released from custody three weeks ago after being given a 12-month suspended sentence on January 15, also for child pornography offences.

He was ordered to undertake a sex offenders program after pleading guilty in the West Australian District Court last year to possessing pornographic images of children, found on a thumb drive he lost in a cinema in June 2007.

Pendragon had been in custody since his June 2007 arrest, which came less than a year after he was deported from Thailand after serving time for threatening, beating and raping three girls.

Outside Perth Magistrates Court today, Mr Tudori told journalists his client wanted to appeal his sentence last month because it was “too lenient”.

He said Pendragon, who was willing to have sex offender treatment but had not received any, had been unhappy since leaving custody. “Mr Pendragon is obviously unhappy at being out,” Mr Tudori said. “He was unhappy with the way he has been treated by police and wanted to go back into custody. The problem is he still hasn’t received any treatment. He’s now re-offended.” Mr Tudori did not explain why his client was unhappy with police.

Pendragon is expected to reappear in the District Court on April 4, 2008.

- AAP