60 Girls Sexually Abused by Australian Ex-Childcare Worker

A former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith on Monday pleaded guilty to raping, sexually abusing and exploiting at least 60 girls under his care in Australia and Italy.

There were 307 charges against Griffith, which took two hours for the Judge to read out in the Brisbane courtroom in Australia where several victims and their families had gathered, reported ABC.

The 46-year-old accused is reported to be one of Australia’s worst-ever paedophiles. The charges against him were made public in 2023.

He was at first arrested in 2022 for producing child sexual abuse content. In 2023, after a thorough police investigation, he was charged with 1,623 offences against 91 children.

The ABC reported that Monday’s charges related to roughly 60 children. Many of the victims were under the age of 12.

The accused committed the offences between 2003 and 2022 in twelve different locations across Australia and Italy.

Griffith will be sentenced at a later date. He is in custody.