A childcare employee who admitted lots of of sexual offences in opposition to younger women is because of face sentencing after a prosecutor argued that the victims’ households shouldn’t be saved ready.
Ashley Paul Griffith, 46, on September 2 pleaded responsible in Brisbane District Courtroom to greater than 300 baby sexual offences together with 28 expenses of rape, in addition to ongoing sexual abuse and making baby exploitation materials.
He admitted offences in opposition to a number of kids whereas working in childcare centres throughout Brisbane between January 2003 and August 2022.
Griffith’s case was talked about on Monday to set a date for his sentencing, which is more likely to take two days due to the variety of members of the family who might learn their sufferer influence statements in court docket.
Defence barrister Sarah Cartledge advised Decide Leanne Clare she was involved {that a} court-ordered psychiatric report on Griffith may not be prepared in time for potential sentencing dates in November.
‘There’s numerous info for the psychiatrist and the report itself shall be prolonged,’ Ms Cartledge stated.
‘It is no straightforward feat. It is a vital case. Psychiatric reviews take time and this a posh case.’
Ashley Paul Griffith, 46, on September 2 pleaded responsible in Brisbane District Courtroom to greater than 300 baby sexual offences together with 28 expenses of rape, in addition to ongoing sexual abuse and making baby exploitation materials
Griffith’s case was talked about on Monday to set a date for his sentencing, which is more likely to take two days due to the variety of members of the family who might learn their sufferer influence statements in court docket
Ms Cartledge stated Griffith had pleaded responsible and was in custody so there was no cause from the defence’s perspective to carry the sentencing earlier than January 2025.
Crown prosecutor Stephanie Gallagher stated she needed to get the sentencing accomplished earlier than the tip of the yr.
‘There are 65 victims and 65 households eager to see a sentence. November nonetheless provides us vital time. There is no indication the report will not be prepared,’ she stated.
Decide Clare on Monday set a sentencing date for November 28 and 29 for Griffith and adjourned the matter.
Griffith was arrested in August 2022 by Australian Federal Police and initially charged with greater than 1000 offences in opposition to 91 younger women, however lots of of expenses have been later dropped.
In September he pleaded responsible to 190 counts of indecent remedy of kids aged underneath 12 whereas a carer, 67 counts of taking indecent images and movies of kids, and 15 counts of repeated sexual abuse of a kid.
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