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July 15, 2005
Mr Baldy. Evil. On parole.
Reading a backlog of news from down under, I discover Mr. Baldy (Brian Kenneth Jones, nee Brendon John Megson) is out on parole.
Who is he? He was first jailed in 1981 for abducting and sexually abusing six young children whose heads he shaved. Only days after his release in 1989, he carried out sex attacks on two boys and was jailed for a further 14 years.
I remember the years from 78-81 quite well. It was abundantly clear to everyone that a serial predator was operating all over Melbourne. One child was abducted in a town a twenty minute drive from where I lived.
He also kept himself occupied in jail.
Rather than fighting his depraved urges, the man known as Mr Baldy embraced them, scheming to arrange more victims. Within three weeks of being freed, he sexually assaulted a young boy. He did eight years, but even this did not force a rethink. While behind bars, he sent a tape to the parents of two young children asking him to prepare his "lover boy". The tape revealed his fantasy of having a world where he could take stolen children and "make love to the cute ones and treat the others as slaves".Herald Sun (15-7-2005)
Mark Buttler/ Paul Anderson
But he's out on (monitored) parole now. For fear of his safety, the corrections department would not issue a photograph, nor advise people where he was placed. There is no equivilant of Megan's Law. The Herald Sun newspaper tracked him down and has published a photo of him.
So where do they decide to house him? In a Melbourne suburb, Ascot Vale. 157 Kent St. (He has since been moved to another undisclosed location).
That's the house, and he was home when the photograph was taken.
Within a kilometre radius there are no less than 11 sites for young children -- primary schools, kindergartens, pools and playgrounds. At the end of Kent Street and across Mount Alexander Road to the east - within 500m or a five-minute stroll - is Flemington Primary School. Next to the school is the Flemington Street Children's Centre and a swim centre, which advertises training for junior squads and lessons for preschool and school age kids.
Not to mention the Melbourne Showgrounds - a bustling place in September when tens of thousands of children who go there for the Royal Melbourne Show - a 10-minute walk away. The Premier of Victoria has defended the decision to put him there in the first place, and further, said that he would not object to the child molester moving into his own neighborhood. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
His parole ends next month. Sex crimes legislation allows the Justice department to apply to extend the monitoring period. He can fight any application.
The tourism slogan for the state is "Victoria. The place to be."
I'm glad I'm not there.
Update
Wouldn't want to infringe his liberties, either, by making him take those nasty drugs.
Authorities conceded yesterday they had no power to force the convicted sex predator to continue taking medication to dull his sex urges. And police, whose job it was to investigate crime in the area incorporating Melbourne Showgrounds, said they'd been kept in the dark about Mr Baldy being placed in Ascot Vale after his release on parole.Editorial, Herald Sun (16-7-2005)
Sod the chemical castration. How about a garlic press?
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at July 15, 2005 10:08 AM
Comments
The rights of young innocents doesn't seem to balance the right of an unrepentent pedophile that wants to exercise his right to hunt his prey. Just as here, pedophiles are getting way too many breaks in this world.
How about the ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK solution to this problem:
America has long spent time trying to get people to settle in Kansas, they even go through periods where they give land away for free on the surety that people will live on that land for a period of time. Solution is this, move all the normal people out of Kansas. Build a large arse moat around the whole dust bowl. Barb wire, man eating piranhas, you name it. Dump all the pedophiles, sociopaths, psychopaths, serial killers, murderers, drug users in there. Air drop their supply of drugs and what have you in there to keep them content, then let them cull each other down to extinction. The land is so flat out there you can see someone approaching the border for miles to keep em where they belong.