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The Canberra Times
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Blake Foden

'Evil' cruise ship sex offender thinks he is victim, child is criminal

John Brown outside court earlier this year. Picture: Blake Foden

A child sex offender thinks he is the real victim and the Canberra boy he abused on a cruise ship is to blame for his crime, a forensic psychiatrist says.

John Ronald Brown, 49, believes his teenage victim is "95 per cent responsible" for the offence he has admitted committing, Professor David Greenberg told the ACT Supreme Court on Monday.

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