• What do you do when children disclose sexual abuse to multiple people on multiple ocassions:          COVER IT UP, OR PROTECT THEM ?

 

• The Australian Federal Police (AFP) Operation Noetic started around 2016 when they began constructing a case created to criminalise a number of people helping to separately assist a mother and a grandmother (who did not even know each other) protect their children, and grandchild who had made multiple disclosures of sexual abuse to multiple people.

 

• According to the AFP  it is claimed to be the biggest criminal case in Australian legal history.

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• It was alleged by the AFP that a number of people including a parent and  a grandparent harboured and/or abducted their own children and grandchildren, when in reality one mother had fled with her two children to protect them from being returned by the Family Court of Australia to their alleged abuser and the other, a grandmother, who had LAWFUL custody of her grandchild at the time she was charged.

 

• It is interesting to note as to how you can harbour or abduct a child when you have lawful custody awarded by the Family Court ?

 

• Two Rhodesian friends, William Russell Massingham Pridgeon and Patrick Finbar McGarry O'Dea along with a parent of two children, a grandparent of the other child, and around five other people who it is alleged independently assisted them, were arrested and publicly defamed in the media and portrayed as being part of an international child trafficking syndicate. Some of these people had never even met or ever spoken with each other.

 

• Those children were then removed in the two separate cases from their parent and grandparent by the Police and returned under orders made by The Family Court of Australia to the very people they claimed had abused them. And all this happened because a number of people involved including police officers had concealed the disclosures of the children, claiming they had made no disclosures when all the children had made multiple disclosures of abuse, including sexual abuse, to multiple sources.

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• Throughout the long history with this case some of this damning evidence was leaked by a number of people to social media outlets exposing the misrepresentation of the case by the government and court controlled media generating significant public outrage about this case.

 

• As a result of the above these "child protectors" were charged by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) with “Conspiracy to Defeat Justice” and several other charges. Unfortunately they are not the only people in Australia to be charged for this relatively new offence, despite their intent clearly being to protect children who they and many others knew had disclosed sexual abuse to multiple people on multiple ocassions. Further to this at no point in time could any of the actions of these "child protectors" have prevented the Family Court from making any future orders, that is, no actions could ever have defeated the course of justice.

 

• The case continued for around six years, Dr Pridgeon, a Family Doctor lost his medical practice for around 3 1/2 years; Patrick O'Dea the second defendant was unable to work or travel because of draconian bail conditions and without the support of his family would have been homeless. The kind loving grandmother (who had lawful custody of her grandchild at the time) living in northern Queensland (GA) was forced to wear a tracker for over 2 1/2 years and had her life absolutely decimated, and the mother of the other children (choosing to listen to her legal counsel) has now sadly been convicted of an offence she could never have committed and I doubt will ever recover. All this happened to these people because they were trying to protect children in Australia who had all disclosed sexual abuse to multiple sources on multiple occasions.

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THE UNREPRESENTED DEFENDANTS

 

• Only three individuals chose to self represent, Dr Russell Pridgeon, Patrick O'Dea and the Grandmother (GA) and thanks to the tireless work of a very small dedicated team assisting them, 24 charges were ultimately dropped including the main charges of "conspiracy to defeat justice". These main charges were dropped around day three into the trial in February 2024 after Dr Russell was for the third time forced to give up his medical practice  and notwithstanding that the CDPP had for around six years used millions of tax-payer dollars to prosecute their false claims whilst at the same time continuing to conceal the shocking disclosures of child sexual abuse from the public.  

 

• All charges were eventually either withdrawn or discontinued against Dr Russell Pridgean and the Grandmother (GA) 

 

• Unfortunately on the 3/9/2024 Patrick O'Dea, the last man standing, despite his recognised substantive health issues including his significant hearing difficulties , being denied a support person in the courtroom, his diagnosed CPTSD and struggles from his time in national service in Rhodesia, received a sentence of 3 1/2 years , 12 months for breaching section 121 of the family law act and 2 1/2 years for the using a carriage service which in all circumstances was offensive, with 20 months non parole (which in plain English is his actual sentence).

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• After being incarcerated Patrick chose with his family to fundraise thousands of dollars and then use that money to engage what are referred to as legal professionals. As a consequence of this decision no bail application was ever made, despite one being ready to file one day after his incarceration, and these legal professionals waited for many months to file an appeal despite having all the transcripts, and with that appeal they failed to even raise that Patrick was on one occasion left completely unsupported for hours unable to hear a word in court and the Judge even told him that it didn't matter, anyway after waiting over 12 months Patrick unsurprisingly lost his appeal application. 

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• As a permanent resident Patrick will most likely be deported after his release. 

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THE REPRESENTED DEFENDANTS

 

• ​The mother of two of the children who had hidden with them for around four years finally succumbed to the immense pressure of years of persecution and under instructions from he lawyers pleaded guilty in late October 2023 to "conspiracy to defeat justice", and the three other women who were alleged to have assisted the mother also succumbed to the pressure from legal counsel and pleaded guilty to a variety of  "aiding and abetting charges"

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• The three other women were each issued with good behaviour bonds and were not incarcerated however the mother of the two children was convicted and received a sentence of 3 years. The prosecution and Judge claim that she had an honest belief her children were being sexually abused but that it was not reasonable ? The Prosecution further claimed that they believed she coached the children despite the multiple disclosures by the children to multiple people and the mother only having very limited supervised contact with her children throughout that time.

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•  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-20/qld-child-stealing-abduction-sentence-townsville/103004280

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CONCLUSION

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• The Australian Federal Police (AFP), The Queensland State Police, The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) and the Office of the CDPP, the mainstream media and the courts themselves controlled and manipulated the information released to the public about this case and ignored the criminality of the police and others involved.

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• The Courts, The AFP, the CDPP and the Queensland State Police all supported each other and turned a complete blind eye to the allegations of the children claiming that they made no disclosures of sexual abuse despite all the evidence to the contrary.

 

• The Family Court in each case returned the children to the sole custody of the very people they accused of abusing them.

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• The only two individuals who were ultimately successful in the case were, for nearly the entire time, self represented.

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• All those who engaged legal counsel were all convicted.

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