Australia - Victoria Police hunt escaped child rapist Andrew Darling

[Ausgirl]

The THIRD time.. AND they said nothing 'til his 'trail went cold' -- this is just DISGUSTING!

Heading for Melbourne or Ballarat? FANTASTIC. My daughter and her boyfriend just got back from a trip to Ballarat. anic:

She won't be going *anywhere* far from home until this creeper is locked up (locked up? LOL!!! put in another easily removable tracking device and placed back into Pedoville wall-less holiday camp more like).

 

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An article from last year.

JUNE 20, 2013: Crisis talks after jailed rapists simply walk out of Village of the Damned in Ararat
Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/la...cility-in-ararat/story-fni0fee2-1226666778826

Corrections Minister Edward O'Donohue was yesterday briefed, and Ararat Mayor Ian Wilson will hold urgent talks with Corrections Victoria today about how to better protect the rural township.

The State Government last night pledged new tracking technology, to be worn by those at Corella Place from July 7, would make disappearing tougher. The current bracelets alert staff only that the wearer has gone, but not where.

"You'll switch from knowing they've gone to knowing they've gone and where they've gone," spokesman James Talia said.

One of the men had a history of sex offending, including attacking a five-year-old boy in the toilet of a shopping centre in 2004.

He had absconded from Corella Place previously, receiving a two-month jail term, and had eight years left to serve on his order.

The other man was jailed in 2007 for serious sex offences against a woman and was four months into a five-year stay.

 

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Another article from last year which includes a video.

September 6, 2013: Facility for sex offenders to be expanded at Ararat
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/f...d-at-ararat-20130905-2t84c.html#ixzz36w6HKkRM

The facility housing some of Victoria worst sex offenders will be expanded to hold more of the former prisoners on supervision orders.

The state government will announce on Friday the capacity of the facility - which houses offenders who have finished their sentences but are deemed to be an unacceptable risk of reoffending - will be increased from 40 beds to 55 at the cost of $3 million, and that work will begin next month.

The village-style complex, called Corella Place, is located next to the prison in the western Victorian town of Ararat. There are no walls surrounding the facility, but the offenders living there are monitored with GPS ankle bracelets and cannot leave without permission.

 

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July 9, 2014: Child rapist Andrew Darling remains on the run
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/child-rapist-andrew-darling-remains-on-the-run-20140709-zt0v9.html

Detective Sergeant Gunn said Darling stopped taking his medication four days prior to walking out on Sunday, but didn't reveal what medication he was on.

"He will front up at some stage at some location and we're waiting for people to ring up and help us," Detective Sergeant Gunn said.

 

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Victoria Police @VictoriaPolice · 2h
We can confirm that Andrew Darling has not been arrested and that search continues. The public are urged not to approach him if sighted.

https://twitter.com/VictoriaPolice

 

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JULY 09, 2014: Time to get serious about protecting the community from dangerous sex creeps, says Charlie Bezzina
Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/la...-charlie-bezzina/story-fni0ffqy-1226982874289

 

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Another article from last year which includes a video.

September 6, 2013: Facility for sex offenders to be expanded at Ararat
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/f...d-at-ararat-20130905-2t84c.html#ixzz36w6HKkRM

The village-style complex, called Corella Place, is located next to the prison in the western Victorian town of Ararat. There are no walls surrounding the facility, but the offenders living there are monitored with GPS ankle bracelets and cannot leave without permission.

July 9, 2014: Child rapist Andrew Darling remains on the run
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/child-rapist-andrew-darling-remains-on-the-run-20140709-zt0v9.html

"He will front up at some stage at some location and we're waiting for people to ring up and help us," Detective Sergeant Gunn said.

BBM Oh that's good .. they can't leave without permission ... and we're waiting for people to ring and help the police. Sounds like it is all under control then.

What a debacle! :shakehead:

Time to erect some very tall barbed-wire electric fences around that cute little holiday village, methinks. It is completely outrageous that this is the way we house the worst sex offenders who are deemed an unacceptable risk to the community.

 

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Child rapist Andrew Darling has escaped from the Corella Place "Village of the Damned" in Ararat, home to some of Victoria's worst sex offenders.

THIS is where we house the worst sex offenders! Do we also provide them with computers and internet access so they can groom and prey on more children?

I am flabbergasted! :thud:

 

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July 09, 2014: Police say child rapist Andrew Darling could be hiding interstate after fleeing Ararat’s Village of the Damned
Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/la...eraldSunTopStories+(Herald+Sun+|+Top+Stories)

Fugitive squad head Det Acting Superintendent Ian Campbell said Darling may not necessarily still be in Victoria as he had been “in receipt of cash”.

Early indications are that Darling used a kitchen knife to cut off two electronic tracking bracelets fitted to both ankles.

It’s unclear whether he is still armed with a kitchen knife while on the run.

 

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Those electronic tracking bracelets he was wearing can't be very secure if he was able to cut them off with a "kitchen knife". :facepalm:

 

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July 9, 2014: Ararat sex offender search: Andrew Darling saved money for weeks before escape
Read more: http://www.mailtimes.com.au/story/2...g-saved-money-for-weeks-before-escape/?cs=225

Detective Acting Superintendent Ian Campbell said Darling had enough cash to pay for interstate travel.

"We are aware that he has been saving some money over a period of time," he said.

Det Acting Superintendent Campbell said Darling remained a threat.

"In my view he has been classified as a registered high-risk sex offender, so I would say yes most definitely he is a high-risk sex offender and he is a risk," he said.

He urged anyone with information to ring 000 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

 

[SouthAussie]

July 9, 2014: Ararat sex offender search: Andrew Darling saved money for weeks before escape
Read more: http://www.mailtimes.com.au/story/2...g-saved-money-for-weeks-before-escape/?cs=225

Det Acting Superintendent Campbell said Darling remained a threat.

"In my view he has been classified as a registered high-risk sex offender, so I would say yes most definitely he is a high-risk sex offender and he is a risk," he said.

He urged anyone with information to ring 000 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

Amazing deduction! You mean all that instruction in cooking, cleaning, and budgeting hasn't made him a low-risk sex offender?!

 

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JULY 07, 2014: http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-...980938175?nk=b3b5831407c31cc181a60823c010de29

A spokesman for Corrections Minister Edward O’Donohue said ESO tracking devices, such as the one cut off by Andrew Darling on Sunday, were the strongest measure available for sex offenders who had completed their sentences.

 

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Updated 7 minutes ago: Child rapist Andrew Darling's whereabouts remain unknown as Victoria Police plead for information
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-09/victoria-police-plea-for-information-on-andrew-darling/5585554

Superintendent Campbell said when Darling escaped in 2009 he travelled to Queensland and in 2010 remained in the nearby Ararat area.

He said there was a possibility Darling had caught a plane, but airports were notified early on in the search.

"His mode of transport is unknown, and we're appealing to all the transport hubs, who may pick him up and move him on, to notify police," he said.

 

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July 7, 2014: Sex offender security bracelets 'lose signal'
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/sex-offender-security-bracelets-lose-signal-20140707-zsyjs.html

Electronic bracelets used to monitor some of Victoria’s worst sex offenders at an Ararat facility intermittently lose signal, leading to confusion among the officers guarding the centre.

Police Association secretary Ron Iddles said some signals did not register on the monitoring system at the Corella Place facility.

‘‘For whatever reason, the signalling stops,’’ he said.

Mr Iddles said the recent introduction of GPS had improved the bracelets but problems with signalling remained.

‘‘We’ve got to make sure the system is working 100 per cent and it’s not at the moment,’’ he said.

 

[Ausgirl]

Ah, there's me mate Ron, in his shiny new desk job.

It seems to me like someone should have figured out maybe... oh you know, the FIRST time a bunch of rapists went walkabout that *maybe* security needs stepping up?

I am imagining a vein throbbing in Ron Iddles' forehead. He strikes me as someone I would want up there where the decisions concerning prison facilities are made.

 

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July 9, 2014: Search for Vic criminal moves interstate
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/07/09/17/42/search-for-vic-criminal-moves-interstate

 

[Marg from Oz]

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

Amazing deduction! You mean all that instruction in cooking, cleaning, and budgeting hasn't made him a low-risk sex offender?!

Well I would give him full marks passing one of the subjects. "Budgeting". Most spend their money on cigarettes, lollies and biscuits etc.
I would imagine it is run like another facility I know where they get the dole, pay their rent and board and the rest is theirs to do wht they like with.
They would be eligible for centre link payments because they are no longer incarcerated.
It was reported on 3AW news that he had stopped taking his medication four days before he took off. Who knew this? Wouldn't it ring a bell? I am presuming that the medication was to curb his sex drive. I have worked with men who are on the Dianne contraceptive pill as the hormones in it dull their sex drive.


Might I say it is not always effective and they then need to go onto other medication. But because technically he is no longer incarcerated his rights would come into it and then he has the right to refuse medication. There are so many legalities that need fixing here. JMOO

 

[Ausgirl]

I personally wish it was fixed so we could legally hang them.

just sayin

 

[SouthAussie]

Yeah, it is all very sad and broken.

He rapes a 13-year old who was sleeping in the presumed safety of her own bed in her own home, he has ‘done his time so he should be given a chance to assimilate into society’ according to his sister (though I’m sure that the then 13-year old is still ‘doing her time’ after his horrible crime). Then he absconds from the VERY minimum security facility, with the prospect of jail for doing so. Only, no … there is no jail. Back to the VERY minimum security facility to abscond again .. and again.

And he is not the first one to repeatedly abscond from the facility.

It is no wonder that sexual crimes are on the increase, where most other crimes are on the decrease.

Reports of sexual assault have hit a four year high on the back of an eight per cent jump last year, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures released today.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS\[email protected]?Opendocument