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THE MAKO/Files Online are a FREE PUBLIC
SERVICE
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In Australia the general Public (YOU) are NOT provided with access to Sex Offender
Registries by the Federal or State government/s..
Most of you agree would with us that jail is the best place for convicted
sex offenders..the FACT is that many live in
unsuspecting communities including near schools/playgrounds etc..
Its no secret that sex offenders especially paedophiles are likely to re/offend
so Public AWARENESS is very IMPORTANT to PREVENTION ??
The
'MAKO/Files' online are Australia's 1st " FREE PUBLIC" Paedophile/Sex offender registry,and currently list/ name
hundreds of offenders nationwide, (NOT a complete Australian list of offenders) with more offenders being added on a regular basis.. 98+% of offenders listed in the
MAKO/Files Online and MAKO/Files
Online- (Within The Church) have been convicted by a court of law. (The MAKO/Files Online also lists Child Killers and individuals
convicted of other forms of child abuse/NOT only child sexual abuse)
A typical Online
MAKO/File (offenders file) may include the
offenders name,age (2008), photo
where possible, occupation, offence-s committed, sentence received by the court, and last known
location- (last known location is taken from time of offenders
offence/ sentence, unless otherwise stated).
AWARENESS = PREVENTION..
Not only can the MAKO/Files online be used by the Australian PUBLIC to better
protect themselves and their CHILDREN/ families from proven sex offenders,
they have many other benefits, including..
DETERRING
some offenders = yet another form of prevention..
+ being a useful resource
for Australian and overseas Companies-businesses-organisations
to assist with screening potential employees/volunteers etc..
+ a useful resource for media
outlets/journalists/Investigators/researchers etc..
+ a useful method of
constantly lobbying Australian Government/s and politicians to do more to
protect the PUBLIC from sexual predators.
"Tougher sentencing for offenders,greater government
funding for prevention/ victim assistance and public sex offender
registries would be a good foundation to work from."
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Child Stalker A Primary School Volunteer
A CONVICTED child stalker and child pornographer was volunteering
as a child carer at a primary school before he was arrested by police.
Glenn Schulz, 34, of Ballan, escaped jail time after he pleaded guilty
in the Sunshine Magistrates' Court to 14 charges including stalking, making
child pornography and possessing child pornography.
The court heard Schulz stalked Melton Primary School in February this year,
using a digital camera to take pictures of school children with their underwear exposed.
Although he had no paid employment at the time of his offences, Schulz had
been an after-school care volunteer at Ballan Primary School before his arrest.
The court heard Schulz also applied to work as a sports coach and underwent
a "working-with-children check" before his arrest.
The court heard Schulz, who did not notify the Department of Justice within
seven days of his arrest, also pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to
notify authorities about his application for a working-with-children check.
Pupils from Melton Primary School told police they had seen a man in a silver
four-wheel-drive vehicle taking photos of them during their lunch break on February 12.
Schulz was arrested by police on February 14 after they detected him in a 4WD
in the school car park outside the prep-aged area, where children could be easily
observed, police prosecutor Sen-Con Lisa Fisher said.
The defendant admitted to police he sat "waiting for children to adopt positions
where their underwear was exposed," she said.
It was also alleged Schulz told police the "many" digital images found on his home laptop computer
of children playing and with their underwear exposed were for "personal viewing".
The defendant admitted he had attended schools and sporting areas this year to photograph children in their underwear.
"The offences occurred at school, which is supposed to be an environment where they're safe and protected from
people such as the defendant," Sen-Constable Fisher said.
Schulz's computer, camera, photographs and a large quantity of soft pornography videos were seized from his home.
Defence lawyer Dimitra Panagopoulos said quick police work had curtailed any further offending and her
client had co-operated fully with police.
He was also undergoing counselling and had been deterred from further offending
by "the media campaign to name and shame him", she said.
Magistrate Noreen Toohey sentenced Schulz to a six-month term in the form of an intensive corrections order,
commanded him to complete a sex offenders' program and placed him on the sex offenders' register for 15 years.
Herald Sun (29-11-2007)
Dina Rosendorff
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