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Jail May Be The Only Place Child Rapist Will Find Peace And Quiet


The child sex offender Dennis Raymond Ferguson might not be able to live inconspicuously anywhere in Australia if police decide he is still a danger and the proposed national child protection register goes ahead.
Mr Ferguson scuffled with the media after his release from the John Morony No.1 Correctional Centre yesterday morning. At the nearby Windsor railway station he kicked cameramen from Channel Nine and the ABC and grabbed a Herald photographer.
The Police Minister, John Watkins, said yesterday he had no sympathy for Mr Ferguson if police decided the community should be alerted about him.
If the result of that was Mr Ferguson was driven from locality to locality, it was "the offender's problem - it's got nothing to do with me", he said.
He added that NSW was the only state where police had the power to inform the public of a pedophile living among them.
NSW has supported a national child protection register, which should operate next year. The register would mean offenders bound by strict reporting conditions could not escape scrutiny by moving interstate.
Mr Ferguson, who served 15 years in Queensland for raping children aged 6, 7 and 8 in Brisbane, was arrested last year when he went onto school grounds. He had a job selling detergents but had failed to inform police he would be going into the vicinity of children. He received a 15-month sentence, which ended yesterday.
It is now up to the superintendent in charge of the police's Child Protection Unit and the chief of detectives for the state to decide whether information about him should be given to people in the area he lives.
AAP (16-12-2004)
Malcolm Brown





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