Queensland’s police minister has asked for another review into how officers handled complaints about one of Australia’s worst paedophiles, who raped and abused children at several Brisbane childcare centres.
Two days after Ashley Paul Griffith stood before heartbroken families in the Brisbane District Court and pleaded guilty to 307 child abuse charges, Police Minister Mark Ryan said he had asked the police commissioner to launch a new review.
Gold Coast man Ashley Paul Griffith pleaded guilty to more than 300 offences on Monday.Credit: Nine
After Griffith’s arraignment on Monday, the parents of one young girl questioned how the childcare system had failed to detect the offending earlier, with abuses spanning from 2003 to 2022, the year he was arrested.
Queensland police said there had already been an internal review into how complaints about Griffith had been dealt with.
A police spokeswoman said that review was done by an independent senior detective with child protection experience.
“This review found both investigations had been conducted according to [Queensland Police Service] policy and concurred with the original findings that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate a criminal offence based on what was known at the time,” the spokeswoman said.
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“Some evidence that was presented during the recent prosecution was not known at the time of the original QPS investigations.”
Yolanda Borucki, who worked with Griffith at one of the centres, told A Current Affair last year she had alerted police in 2021 to an incident involving him.
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