Peter Scully Explained

Peter Scully
Birth Name:Peter Gerard Scully[1]
Birth Date:1963 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Melbourne, Australia
Conviction Status:Convicted
Charge:Human trafficking, rape, murder
Criminal Penalty:Life sentence
Height:1.88 m
Victims:75
Country:Philippines
Children:2
Apprehended:20 February 2015
Imprisoned:Davao Prison and Penal Farm, Panabo City, Philippines

Peter Gerard Scully (born 13 January 1963) is an Australian convicted murderer and child rapist who is imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of children.[2] Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2018. In November 2022, he received a second conviction and was sentenced to an additional 129 years in prison.

Criminal activities

Peter Scully lived in the suburb of Narre Warren in Melbourne with his wife and two children prior to fleeing to Manila in the Philippines in 2011, before he could be charged with his involvement in a property scheme that cost investors over million. According to his own statement, he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in Victoria when he grew up. Prior to leaving Melbourne, he operated an unlicensed online escort service, which offered his Filipina partner as a sex worker. An investigation by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission from 2009 found that Scully was involved in 117 fraud and deception offenses relating to real estate scams.[1]

Child sex abuse

From the island of Mindanao, Scully is alleged to have built up and headed a lucrative international child sexual abuse ring that offered pay-per-view video streams on the dark web of children being sexually abused and tortured. Among the victims who had their ordeals recorded and sold over the internet, was a five-year-old who was raped and tortured by Scully and two female accomplices.[3]

Victims were procured by Scully with promises to impoverished parents of work or education, or were solicited by his two Filipina girlfriends, Carme Ann Alvarez and Liezyl Margallo Castaña,[4] and other female acquaintances such as Maria Dorothea Chi y Chia.[5] Both Alvarez and Margallo also abused children in Scully's videos. One example is in Daisy's Destruction that has been found being promoted on YouTube, showing a infant being hung upside down, tortured, and sexually abused, by an 18-year-old female.[6] [7]

In 2016, prosecutors alleged that Scully and a girlfriend coaxed two teenage girls to come to Scully's house with the promise of food. Scully was alleged to have given the girls alcohol and forced them to perform sex acts between them, a scene the photographer filmed. The prosecutor alleged that when the girls tried to escape, Scully forced them to dig graves in the basement of the house and threatened that he would bury them there. After five days, the girls were released by Alvarez, who began feeling remorse after coming home to see the two in pet collars and reported what had happened.

Dark web and Daisy's Destruction

Scully operated a secret dark web child sexual abuse website known as "No limits fun" ("NLF"). Scully produced his now notorious film, Daisy's Destruction, which he commercially sold and distributed on his site for up to USD$10,000. It features the torture and rape of three girls, including an 18 month old infant, by Scully and two Filipina women.[6] Urged on by Scully, some of the most severe physical abuse was carried out on the children by one of his girlfriends, then 19-year-old Liezyl Margallo, who was formerly trafficked as a child.[7]

Prior to the video gaining attention by the general public, Scully broadcast Daisy's Destruction privately on a pay-per-view basis.[8] Due to the graphic content, it quickly garnered attention of law enforcement and media. The Dutch National Child Exploitation Team was the first to open an investigation with the goal of locating the victims. Subsequently, an international manhunt for those responsible for the video's production was launched. Scully was tracked in Malaybalay City and arrested on 20 February 2015. Investigators had six warrants for his arrest,[9] all relating to the abduction and sexual abuse of two cousins. While they searched for Scully in the Philippines, investigators tracked down the three primary victims in Daisy's Destruction. Liza (victim 1) was found to be alive as was Daisy (victim 2) who had lasting physical injuries from her severe mistreatment. According to Margallo, Scully recorded himself in a video with Cindy (victim 3), in which he raped and tortured her, then made her dig her own grave before strangling her to death with a rope.

Among those who acquired and publicized the film were one of the biggest-ever purveyors of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), Scully's fellow Australian Matthew David Graham, better known by his online pseudonym Lux. Apprehended at age 22, Graham ran a series of "hurtcore" child sexual abuse sites.[10] [11] Graham claimed that he had published the video on his own website "in the name of freedom".[8] Years later, in 2021, Daisy's Destruction resurged after it was found in the possession of American reality television star Josh Duggar.[12] [13] .

Criminal charges

Scully faced a total of 75 charges and, according to German television news channel n-tv, was alleged to have sexually abused 75 children.[14] He was on trial with others who assisted in the production of his pornography, including four men: German Christian Rouche, Filipinos Alexander Lao and Althea Chia, and Brazilian Haniel Caetano de Oliveira.[15] [16] Margaret Akullo, then-Project Coordinator for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and an expert on child abuse investigations,[17] described the case as "horrific" and the worst she had ever heard of. His crimes were deemed so severe that some prosecutors supported the reintroduction of the death penalty as punishment for Scully, despite capital punishment being abolished in the Philippines since 2006.[18]

In a March 2015 interview with Tara Brown on 60 Minutes, Scully said that he was writing a tell-all journal in prison where he would reflect on his motivations for raping young children.[19]

In October 2015, a fire severely damaged the evidence room containing Scully's computer logs and videos, destroying key evidence.[20] Some believe Scully may have bribed a local police officer.[21] [22] On 13 June 2018, Scully and his girlfriend Alvarez were sentenced to life in prison.[23] Judge Jose Escobido also ordered Scully and Alvarez to pay 5 million PHP (almost 87,000 USD) to the victims.[24]

Both Scully and his sister complained about the conditions in the jail Scully is held in.

In November 2022, he received a second conviction and was sentenced to an additional 129 years in prison.[25] Margallo was sentenced to 126 years, and two accomplices, Alexander Lao and Maria Dorothea Chia, were given a 9-year sentence each.[26] In total, there have been 60 cases filed against Scully.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mills . Tammy . Vedelago . Chris . Murdoch . Lindsay . 6 March 2015 . Alleged paedophile Peter Gerard Scully fled a sordid past in Melbourne . . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170719064850/http://www.smh.com.au/national/alleged-paedophile-peter-gerard-scully-fled-a-sordid-past-in-melbourne-20150306-13x5m8.html . 19 July 2017 . live .
  2. Web site: Australian Peter Scully given life sentence for human trafficking, rape in Philippines, reports say . . 14 June 2018. 15 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180618050524/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-14/australian-peter-scully-convicted-in-philippines/9868958 . 18 June 2018 . live .
  3. Web site: Sutton . Candace . 23 September 2016 . Australian child molester Peter Scully faces death penalty in Philippines . news.com.au . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170706100407/http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/australian-child-molester-peter-scully-faces-death-penalty-in-philippines/news-story/f15a28a8b971d95f815b5f6105814ff9 . 6 July 2017 . live.
  4. Web site: Murdoch . Lindsay . 20 September 2016 . Death penalty call for accused Australian child sex predator Peter Scully in Philippines . . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170703135944/http://www.smh.com.au/world/death-penalty-call-for-accused-australian-child-sex-predator-peter-scully-in-philippines-20160920-grk65r.html . 3 July 2017 . live.
  5. Web site: Mendoza . Greanne . 17 February 2017 . Another suspect linked to Australian sex fiend arrested . . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170629104700/http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/17/17/another-suspect-linked-to-australian-sex-fiend-arrested . 29 June 2017 . live .
  6. Web site: Brown . Tara . Tara Brown . Catching a monster: The global manhunt for alleged paedophile Peter Gerard Scully . . 11 July 2017 . 16 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170709164025/http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/03/16/02/19/tracking-the-australian-man-allegedly-responsible-for-horrific-child-sexual-abuse . 9 July 2017 . live .
  7. Web site: Alipon . Joworski . Andrade . Angelo . 27 January 2017 . Filipina behind brutal 'Daisy' sex videos arrested . ABS-CBN News . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170625165632/http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/27/17/filipina-behind-brutal-daisy-sex-videos-arrested . 25 June 2017 . live .
  8. Web site: Daly . 19 February 2018 . Max . Inside the Repulsive World of 'Hurtcore', the Worst Crimes Imaginable . Vice . 29 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191231045831/https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/59kye3/the-repulsive-world-of-hurtcore-the-worst-crimes-imaginable . 31 December 2019 . live.
  9. Catching a Monster . . Tara . Brown . . 2015 . 27 August 2020 . 10 July 2023 . YouTube. https://web.archive.org/web/20201116083754/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEiC7PrS0jg . 16 November 2020 . live .
  10. Web site: Lux captured: The simple error that brought down the world's worst hurtcore paedophile. Johnston . Chris . 14 May 2016 . 31 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170831184554/http://www.smh.com.au/national/lux-captured-the-simple-error-that-brought-down-the-worlds-worst-hurtcore-paedophile-20160513-goum54.html . 31 August 2017 . live . The Sydney Morning Herald.
  11. Web site: Dunn . Matthew . 20 February 2016 . FBI describe dark net paedophile kingpin as one of the most prolific child sex offenders ever . news.com.au . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170715234936/http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/censorship/fbi-describe-dark-net-paedophile-kingpin-as-one-of-the-most-prolific-child-sex-offenders-ever/news-story/eb468fcdb238a09883a1a6fe3b69d0a2 . 15 July 2017 . live .
  12. Web site: Klasfeld. Adam. Josh Duggar Tries to Dismiss Child Porn Charges on Grounds That Trump's Homeland Security Leaders Were Unlawfully Appointed. Law & Crime. August 20, 2021. 21 May 2023. 3 June 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230603021529/https://lawandcrime.com/celebrity/josh-duggar-tries-to-dismiss-child-porn-charges-on-grounds-that-trumps-homeland-security-leaders-were-unlawfully-appointed/. live.
  13. Web site: Klasfeld. Adam. Feds Say They Found a Toddler Rape Video on Josh Duggar's Computer. Here's the 'Horrendous' Story of the 'World's Worst Pedophile' Who Made It.. Law & Crime. June 22, 2021. 21 May 2023. 21 May 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230521041545/https://lawandcrime.com/objections-podcast/feds-say-they-found-a-toddler-rape-video-on-josh-duggars-computer-heres-the-horrendous-story-of-the-worlds-worst-pedophile-who-made-it/. live.
  14. Web site: NACHRICHTEN. n-tv. Philippinen wollen Todesstrafe - vor allem für Einen. 2020-08-08. n-tv.de. de. 22 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211222191501/https://www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Philippinen-wollen-Todesstrafe-vor-allem-fuer-Einen-article18713666.html. live.
  15. Web site: Reformina . Ina . 6 March 2015 . Australian behind 'Daisy' sex videos charged . ABS-CBN News . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170715014858/http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/03/06/15/australian-behind-daisy-sex-videos-charged . 15 July 2017 . live .
  16. Web site: Rocha . Alex . Idaló . Eduardo . 21 December 2015 . Médico de Uberaba admite pedofilia e se diz doente, segundo PF . pt . . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170803085241/http://g1.globo.com/minas-gerais/triangulo-mineiro/noticia/2015/12/medico-de-uberaba-admite-relacao-com-pedofilia-e-se-diz-doente-diz-pf.html . 3 August 2017 . live .
  17. https://www.unodc.org/documents/southeastasiaandpacific/2014/11/vac/Speakers_Facilitators_Trainers_BIO_3-5_Nov_2014.pdf Regional Training Workshop on Responding to Violence against Children in Contact with the Justice System
  18. Philippine House Votes to Reimpose the Death Penalty. Joseph. Hincks. 7 March 2017. Time. 16 April 2021. 15 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181015134639/http://time.com/4694718/philippines-death-penalty-congress/. live.
  19. Web site: Partland. Grace Cantal-Albasin, Lindsay Murdoch and Lily. 2015-03-15. Peter Gerard Scully interview reveals plans to tell all. 2020-12-13. The Sydney Morning Herald. en. 26 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230426150702/https://www.smh.com.au/national/peter-gerard-scully-interview-reveals-plans-to-tell-all-20150315-144tgd.html. live.
  20. Web site: Murdoch . Lindsay . 31 January 2017 . Alleged child abuser Peter Scully 'may still be masterminding porn network' . 11 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170626031311/http://www.smh.com.au/world/alleged-child-abuser-peter-scully-may-still-be-masterminding-porn-network-20170131-gu25sw.html . 26 June 2017 . live . The Sydney Morning Herald.
  21. Web site: Australian child abuser Peter Scully could walk free in light of new evidence . Walker . Timothy . Philippines Lifestyle News . CWCMedia . 2015-10-09 . 22 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170701164838/http://philippineslifestyle.com/blog/2015/10/09/australian-pedophile-peter-scully-could-walk-free-in-light-of-new-evidence/ . 1 July 2017 . live .
  22. Web site: Cullen . Shay . Hungry for justice: Harsh realities of child abuse . Rappler . August 2015 . en . 20 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180105044222/https://www.rappler.com/views/imho/101130-child-abuse-justice . 5 January 2018 . live .
  23. Web site: Infamous pedophile smiles as he gets life in prison. New York Post. Sutton. Candance. June 14, 2018. 25 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20200217165504/https://nypost.com/2018/06/14/infamous-pedophile-smiles-as-he-gets-life-in-prison/. 17 February 2020. live.
  24. Web site: 2022-11-08 . Australian pedophile Peter Scully gets jail sentence of 129 years more . 2022-11-17 . RAPPLER . en-US . 17 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221117160050/https://www.rappler.com/nation/mindanao/pedophile-peter-scully-jail-sentence/ . live .
  25. Web site: Agence France-Presse . 2022-11-09 . Australian man jailed for 129 years in child sexual abuse case in Philippines . 2022-11-17 . the Guardian . en . 17 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221117160050/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/09/peter-gerard-scully-australian-man-jailed-for-129-years-child-sex-abuse-case-philippines . live .
  26. Web site: 2022-11-09 . Australian, cohorts convicted of trafficking . 2022-11-17 . Manila Bulletin . en-US . 17 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221117164116/https://mb.com.ph/2022/11/09/australian-cohorts-convicted-of-trafficking/ . live .

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