I have seen some scandalous and corrupt judgements but I can’t remember any worse than paedophile catholic priest Father Robert Flaherty being sentenced in August 2016 to a non-parole period of 3 months jail for abusing and raping 3 boys. It is plainly obvious that the judges involved need to be investigated themselves.
I have collated a list of paedophile judges and suspected paedophile judges below and emailed the list to all the NSW Supreme Court judges giving them an opportunity to respond before I published their names. I am also in the process of sending a formal complaint to the relevant authorities regarding paedophiles in the judiciary and not all my evidence is in this article but I will focus on making a fair and reasonable case against the 4 judges in the Father Flaherty matter.
The rest of the evidence I will publish at the relevant time although I have published plenty before such as an article in 2014 titled: “Premier Mike Baird & Chief Justice Bathurst fail to act on paedophile supporter Judge Garry Neilson“.
Paedophile Magistrate Peter Liddy – Jailed for 25 years in 2001
Most people find it hard to believe that there are paedophile judges but the first Australian judicial officer jailed was South Australian magistrate Peter Liddy who is still in jail today. It was reported in 2001:
“Former South Australian Magistrate, Peter Liddy, continues to make Australian legal history. In June he became the first Australian judicial officer convicted of child sex crimes. And today he was given a 25 year sentence – believed to be the longest sentence handed down to any paedophile.“ (Click here to read more)
Paedophile Magistrate Peter Liddy
Father Robert Flaherty
In February 2016 Father Flaherty was jailed for 2 years and 3 weeks with a non-parole period of 6 months by the NSW District Court’s Judge Richard Cogswell, SC for sexually abusing 3 boys. (Click here to read more)
The church had allowed Father Flaherty to move from parish to parish even though they knew he had abused boys.
As you would expect the prosecution appealed because the sentence was a joke. The appeal was heard in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal by Justice Hoeben, Justice Price and Justice Simpson with Hoeben being the senior judge. What did they do? They decreased the sentence to 2 years with an non-parole period of 3 months. (Click here to read the summary of the judgement)
Father Flaherty’s lawyers did the big sob story that he suffered numerous health issues and only had 6 to 12 months to live. Half the criminals before the courts argue similar things and they don’t get reduced sentences.
To put it in perspective how scandalous the Father Flaherty matter is it is worth comparing it to another recent appeal involving Bega paedophile Maurice Van Ryn. Mr Van Ryn was sentenced to 7 years jail by Judge Clive Jeffreys for abusing 9 children. The court of appeal increased it to 13 years 6 months and said Judge Jeffreys judgment was: so manifestly inadequate it amounted to “an affront to the administration of criminal justice”. (Click here to read the full judgment) Just for the record the 3 appeal judges in the Van Ryn matter were Justice Leeming, Johnson and Hulme.
Compare the 13 1/2 years jail for Van Ryn to the 2 years jail with a non-parole period of 3 months for Father Flaherty and it is not too hard to work out something is badly wrong. It seems to be when there is little media coverage the judges take advantage of it and do what they want as Van Ryn was very high-profile yet Father Flaherty did not get much media coverage for some reason.
Judges supporting paedophiles with grossly inadequate sentencing has been a long-term problem and can only mean one thing and that is there are numerous judges who are themselves paedophiles. Former federal Senator Bill Heffernan said last year that he was in possession of a list of high-profile paedophiles which included judges that he received from a federal law enforcement agency and when judges hand down lenient sentences than those judges should come under suspicion until there is a public enquiry.
What makes the Flaherty matter even more scandalous is the fact that it has happened while there is a Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse in progress costing hundreds of millions of dollars and NSW Supreme Court judges have said we do not care and we are untouchable. But they are not untouchable from this website naming them and the court of public opinion.
Justice Cliff Hoeben, Chief Judge at Common Law, NSW Supreme Court
Below is the email I sent to Chief Justice Tom Bathurst and all of the other NSW Supreme Court judges.
From: Shane Dowling
Sent: Tuesday, 6 September 2016 11:35 PM
To: victoria_bradshaw@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.president@courts.nsw.gov.au; dorothy_yon@courts.nsw.gov.au; maree_harland@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.macfarlanja@courts.nsw.gov.au; trish_beazley@courts.nsw.gov.au; morna_lynch@courts.nsw.gov.au; giorgina_kotevski@courts.nsw.gov.au; jasmine_geary@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.gleesonja@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.leemingja@courts.nsw.gov.au; lynn_nielsen@courts.nsw.gov.au; adam_zwi@courts.nsw.gov.au; kim_pitt@courts.nsw.gov.au; cheryl.scholfield@courts.nsw.gov.au; karen_adams@courts.nsw.gov.au; linda.head@courts.nsw.gov.au; renee_ingrey@courts.nsw.gov.au; carla_wilson@courts.nsw.gov.au; maria_heraghty@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.johnsonj@courts.nsw.gov.au; margaret_gaertner@courts.nsw.gov.au; katherine_moroney@courts.nsw.gov.au; jacqui.gray@justice.nsw.gov.au; chambers.breretonj@courts.nsw.gov.au; lisa_freeman@courts.nsw.gov.au; colleen_sutton@courts.nsw.gov.au; bernadette_heywood@courts.nsw.gov.au; kate_moore@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.mccallumj@courts.nsw.gov.au; sally_mccrossin@courts.nsw.gov.au; carol_lloyd@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.slatteryj@courts.nsw.gov.au; anita_singh@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.schmidtj@courts.nsw.gov.au; sue_page@courts.nsw.gov.au; maria_kourtis@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.garlingj@courts.nsw.gov.au; catherine_young@courts.nsw.gov.au; margaret.smith2@courts.nsw.gov.au; anne_cochrane@courts.nsw.gov.au; barbara_ruicens@courts.nsw.gov.au; megan_grace@courts.nsw.gov.au; lauren_channells@courts.nsw.gov.au; chambers.beech-jonesJ@courts.nsw.gov.au; poppy_xenakis@courts.nsw.gov.au; sara_bond@courts.nsw.gov.au; shari_williams@courts.nsw.gov.au
Subject: Paedophile Judge list to be sent to the AFP, Australian Crime Commission, NSW Crime Commission and Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse for investigation
Dear Chief Justice Bathurst, Justice Hoeben, Justice Price, Justice Simpson other judges
I am writing to you all regarding the list of paedophile judges that I intended on making a formal complaint about to the AFP, Australian Crime Commission, NSW Crime Commission and Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse. The list is below.
Known paedophiles
Chief Justice Tom Bathurst – NSW Supreme Court
Justice Clifton Hoeben – NSW Supreme Court
Justice Derek Price – NSW Supreme Court (He is also Chief Judge of the NSW District Court)
Justice Carolyn Simpson – NSW Supreme Court
Judge Richard Cogswell – NSW District Court
Judge Garry Neilson – NSW District Court
Magistrate Doug Dick – NSW Magistrates Court
Suspected paedophiles
Justice Ian Harrison – NSW Supreme Court
Justice Lucy McCallum – NSW Supreme Court
Justice Peter Hall – NSW Supreme Court
Justice Michael Adams – NSW Supreme Court
Acting Justice Henric Nicholas – NSW Supreme Court (now retired)
Acting Justice Robert Hulme – NSW Supreme Court
Justice David Davies – NSW Supreme Court
Justice Peter Garling – NSW Supreme Court
Justice Stephen Campbell – NSW Supreme Court
Registrar Rebel Kenna – NSW Supreme Court
Registrar Christopher Bradford – NSW Supreme Court
If you are on the list and would like a right of reply to deny that you are a paedophile and argue that you should not be on the list, please email me by close of business Wednesday the 7th of September 2016. I will also likely publish the list on my website, if you would like me to publish a reply please send me one by 5pm Wednesday the 7th of September.
If you are not on the list but have evidence of paedophile judges, please contact me on the details below.
As we all know corruption in the NSW Courts is widespread and systemic. In July 2015 Fairfax Media and the ABC’s Four Corners program reported that NSW judges had been bribed $2.2 million by the Mafia which was confirmed by Justice David Davies in December 2015. Maybe you have evidence that the above judges have also benefited from the Mafia bribes or other bribes. If you have evidence of judicial bribery, please contact me ASAP.
Regards
Shane Dowling
Email end
No one has responded just the same as they all shut their mouths last year when Fairfax Media and the ABC’s Four Corners exposed NSW Judges for taking bribes of $2.2 million from the Mafia. (Click here to read more)
Summary
The Father Flaherty matter has happened in an environment where the NSW Attorney-General has claimed there will be harsher laws for child abusers:
“The New South Wales Government is planning to introduce life sentences for child sex offenders and paedophiles.”
“NSW Attorney General Gabrielle Upton will introduce new legislation this week increasing the maximum sentence for sexual intercourse with a child under 10 from 25 years to life imprisonment.” (Click here to read more)
And has happened where NSW Attorney General Gabrielle Upton also had “two specialist judges appointed to the District Court to hear child sexual assault cases across the state.” (Click here to read more)
Doesn’t seem like the NSW Attorney General Gabrielle Upton is achieving a much.
In the next week or so I will make a formal complaint as I have flagged above but before then please email me or write in the comment section below any evidence that you might have regarding child abusers in the judiciary which I might add to the complaint.
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A FANTASTIC POST. IT’S SHAMEFUL THAT MAINSTREAM PRESS REFUSE TO EXPOSE THE HEIRACHY FOR WHAT THEY ARE.
surprise! Not really Ive known a wide variety of people .Been around some of the traps too. Seen it all and its the tip of an very old and powerful iceberg thats been sailing the 7 seas for a long long time .Its frozen solid .It will need more than climate change to thaw that Mob .
The the fact that the Mafia have been bribing judges is only part of the picture.The possibility of blackmail is even more likely as their would be no money trail to follow.Also as we have seen with the Royal Commission the church goes to great lengths to protect their own demonic clergy thus we can expect the same vile behaviour from the judicial cabal.If their heinous acts ever get to court we can expect the usual Amnesia Assizes and Medical Maladies.After all the despicable Pell,the patron saint of paedophiles, used both methods to escape his retribution.As an aside the catholic church should have followed their own procedures and he should have been subjected to an Exorcism,instead they appointed him to one of the world biggest money laundering institutions,the venerable Vatican Bank.
So we can expect the same tricks to be applied should to our arbiters of the law.I suspect a new approach to thwart their nemesis will be the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease,then they wouldn’t have to appear in the dock to repeatedly chant “I can’t remember”and start to swoon and sway and be rushed to hospital complaining of chest pains.
Thank you so much for the post. Is it a good idea to have a Facebook page dedicated to NSW Supreme court judges-paedophiles, $2 mil bribes from mafia, etc..?
Thanks for all your hard work. Keep going. These monsters need to brought to light
It appears to me that their anthropomorphic God is a paedophile…………..” suffer little children to come unto me”
Good people don’t need a God or religion to be good people!
Jonde, l am not religious but one thing you must understand is that the church has been taken over by a Satanic sect, this explains why so many pedophiles etc, the Vatican is the most evil place in the world.
It hasn’t been taken over, it has always been like that… It has been and always will be about power and money. The two big evils of man.
I agree completely!
Absolutely right couldn’t have said it better👏👏👏
Good on you! All its takes for evil to flourish- is for good men to do ..nothing.
Hear! Hear!
I take my hat off to you.
Now if we can just get all the politicians and police officials on to your list and exposed.
ABOUT TIME, MAGISTRATE JOHN SMITH IN MARYBOROUGH QLD ROUTINELY HEAVILY PENALISES BATTLERS IN THIS TOWN BUT ALLOWS CONVICTED CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS ON EXTENDED BAIL.
What is it with NSW “justice” system? Just saw on the news that a creature that aided his twin to dispose of a beautiful young woman he murdered has been released after a WHOLE 15 months?
Is there not even a semblance of justice in NSW? We in Victoria complain about our lack of justice but NSW makes us look good.
Keep up your vigilance Shane – Bravo!
Don’t forget the evil dissenting Michael Kirby who was outed by Bill Heffernan for soliciting rent boys. Heffernan was howled down by leftist progressives for this, amazingly a different set of rules for this incorrigible paedophile. You are taking on a very powerful,dangerous and corrupt cartel who will viciously defend its name and reputation and will use its power to silence any criticism. There is much talk of Judicial corruption in other countries but we have it here in spades but the difference being it is ‘cloaked’ and these scum are made out to be pillars of society with a sanctimonious air of respectability. Good on you for pulling them on.
Kirby is gay and doesn’t deny it. I believe Heffernan’s claim were found to be false. And if they are over age what is the issue?
No issue if it was your son?
It is well researched article. Many judges work with their associates (solicitors, barristers, psychologist, psychiatrist etc) as an organised criminal gang. This is even worse in the family courts.
How can we ever hope to protect our children if we have FILTHLY DISGUSTING pedophiles at the top who are handing down very lenient sentences to these lowlife DOGS who prey on children?
Meanwhile, a man who stole some sheets of corrugated iron gets 6 months in gaol. [Bathurst Local Court, 5 Sep 2016].
It’s great to see someone stand up to these animals these pedophiles are not only judges they come in all walks of life priests, Judges ,barristers, school teachers and also police politicians, I will back you 100%
This is so sad but nothing new here… It is so sad that the judges and lawyers these days are rated several notches under child molesters and animal abusers.. These people need to be removed from office.. physically if need be. The sad thing is that child molester, animal and women abusers NEVER change, they also need to be removed as they will never serve any purpose in society… I remember years ago in Michigan when a child molester was tried and convicted and the judge did not sentence him to jail time as he was afraid of what the inmates would do to him.. What they would do to him would be only partial justice and no doubt that the judge was also a child molester.
Perhaps one additional strategy would be to focus on amending the laws for pedophila convictions. Perhaps a MANDATORY life / 40yr sentence for pedophiles who are in positions of power / supposed community leaders / contributors to the institutional situations that have created this horrible situation in the first place. Lock them away and throw away the key they have no role to play in the world!
My name is Sue Rogers, we are in the process of fighting for justice for the sexual abuse of a family member in the mid 1970’s. The priest Father Theo Arivoli from the Richmond parish NSW, when the knowledge of his abuse came out in 2006 we pressed charges. This priest was 92 yrs old papers got lost, I contacted the coronial inquiry they did their investigation and found other boys he had abused. Still no conviction, a letter last week to say they were now going to convict him in Penrith court on 5th Dec 2016, only to be told he had a heart attack or anxiety attack at 96 years old what are they going to do with him any way? If it ever gets to court. The Catholic Church need to be made accountable.
I hope you got to appear at the Royal Commission.
The Establishment being extremely lenient with religious evildoers. In return for religious leaders maintaining a deafening silence on Establishment evildoing. Emperor Constantine set the template church/state mutual back-scratching
Bastards hiding behind there cloaks please expose them all there Vernim rats
It absolutely makes me wild with anger that these people who are supposed to be the moral justice of our society…openly defy to behave as such. where is the justice for the victims??…shame on all of you, disgusting excuse for human beings…
Great investigation and research! Keep up the good fight!
Very brave posts, & I’m with you 100%, I’m curious to know who will Pell be tried by ? Also the infringement process in vic is rotten & corrupt , colluding with the magistrates courts , the medias deaf to it along with members of Parliament..
Heavens, Australia needs a complete massive overhaul of it’s political, bureaucrat, judicial and other systems now, but as the old saying goes ” nothing will happen while good people say and do nothing”.
They need to make a minimum sentence of at least 10years imprisonment, in my opinion, as even though the maximum is 25years, or life?… Sentences always seem extremely inadequate. I very rarely find a sentence that is not suspended in regards to Child sexual assault or paedophilia charges….. Disgusting!!
Great article well done thank you let everyone re post it
It absolutely makes me So angry but certainly not surprised that these people who are supposed to be the moral justice of our society are the worst species of all. Corrupted, evil and disgusting. Yes they should be named and jailed
Where in the Bible does it clearly say that it is quite satisfactory to abuse children, or to abuse ANYONE, for that matter???
Disgusting
Australians have seen on TV years ago a current affairs programme about these high profile predators and meeting up at Kings Cross at nights young boys for sex. I’ve never forgotten that brave piece and team of reporting and when I read this I am disgusted this systemic culture has not been exposed, judged and shunned
Please pursue this matter on behalf of child victims
I suggest you close ALL churches down,it does not do any good and all they want is money,for what? all i can think of of one big scam,praying to a non fictional image/s
Your journalistic ethos is exceptional. Thank you for your continued efforts to out these scumbags.