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

‘We invited him into our home’: parents and victims of Queensland paedophile Ashley Griffith decry ‘horrific abuse’

Court sketch of Ashley Paul Griffith
Court sketch of Ashley Paul Griffith at sentencing in Brisbane District Court. The Gold Coast paedophile committed crimes against dozens of children at childcare centres where he worked between 2007 and 2022. Photograph: SUPPLIED/AAP

Parents and victims who were raped and abused by former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith have told a Queensland court about the “unimaginable pain” his crimes have caused.

Griffith is being sentenced in the Queensland district court after pleading guilty to committing 307 sexual offences against dozens of children under his care in Brisbane and Italy between 2007 and 2022. Most of the victims are girls who were aged between three and five at the time.

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