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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent

Notorious childcare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith ‘could have been stopped’ five times during decades of offending

Court sketch of Ashley Paul Griffith at sentencing in Brisbane District Court, Brisbane, Thursday, November 28, 2024.
Former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith was sentenced to life in prison for 307 sexual offences against 73 victims, mostly young girls aged between three and five. Photograph: AAP

Notorious serial paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith “could have been stopped, and should have been stopped”, Queensland’s attorney general has said, after the state released a landmark report into the catastrophic system failures that enabled the abuse.

Griffith was sentenced to life in prison for 307 sexual offences against 73 victims, mostly young girls aged between three and five. Most of the offending occurred while he was employed at childcare centres in Queensland between 2003 and 2022.

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