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"Philippines hands down 129-year prison sentence to Australian child sex abuser Peter Gerard Scully"


  • Some of Scully’s victims were as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said.


  • Scully’s girlfriend, Lovely Margallo, was sentenced to 126 years in jail


  • They were charged with 60 offences, including trafficking, child abuse and rape


By Agence France-Presse in Manila  https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3198979/philippines-hands-down-129-year-prison-sentence-australian-child-sex-abuser-peter-gerard-scully



An Australian man has been sentenced to 129 years in a Philippine prison as part of a child sexual abuse case involving victims as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said Wednesday.


“I hope this sends a very strong message to all abusers, all human traffickers, that crime really does not pay,” said Merlynn Barola-Uy, a regional prosecutor in the southern city of Cagayan de Oro.


It was the second conviction for Peter Gerard Scully, who was already serving a life sentence for rape and trafficking of girls.


The Philippines has become a global hotspot for child sex exploitation, experts warn, helped by poverty, English fluency and high internet connectivity in the country.


The Cagayan de Oro court handed down the sentence after Scully and three co-accused entered into a plea bargaining agreement.


They had been charged with 60 offences, including trafficking, child pornography, child abuse and rape.


Scully’s girlfriend, Lovely Margallo, was sentenced to 126 years in jail.


Two others were given sentences of more than nine years.


"This is a big victory for the victim-survivors" said Merlynn Barola-Uy, Cagayan de Oro regional prosecutor


Victims and their families have accepted the terms of the agreement and consider it a “sweet victory”, according to a statement posted on the regional prosecution office’s Facebook page.


“They all want to put closure to this dark phase of their lives and move on,” the statement reads.


Victims included an 18-month-old baby girl and a child whose body was found buried under the floor of a house rented by Scully, Barola-Uy said.


Scully was arrested in 2015 in Malaybalay, another southern Philippine city, after fleeing from Australia in 2011.


He had come to the Philippines to escape fraud charges in his home country.


He then set up a cybersex business, filming teenage girls from impoverished families as he had sex with them or used sex toys, investigators said previously.


The videos were allegedly sold to customers in Germany, the United States and Brazil. Most of the people who pay to view these types of sex videos are abroad, with potentially thousands of children being abused, often with their parents’ consent, authorities say.


The United Nations Children’s Fund said in 2021 that the Philippines is one of the top global sources of child sex abuse materials.


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Fred

129-year prison sentence to Australian child sex abuser Peter Gerard Scully"
Some of Scully's victims were as young as 18 months


Does the prison term start with a rough pubic hair shave using a rusty cut throat razor at a prison barber's shop run by a blind psychopath?

If not, why not?

kristopherryanwatson

@PalawOne


i am all too familiar with this story.


an Mmerican journalist from msnbc did a report/interview with him and his mistriss in crime. they had no remore whataover for what they did - only that they got caught.


an Aussie jorunalist from a large news conglomerate also did a sit-down 45 minute interview with him from the detention center where he was held..he had the biggest ego, was cocky with how he reaponded to the journalists questions,  and showed no signs of remorse or regret.


hs was not only found guilty of the aweful sex crimes against those poor children, but he also swindled 10's of thousands of dollars from both americans and australians business partners in some estate invesments that went wrong as well.


he and his mistriss are truly the most vile people i have ever heard of. he should get the death penalty.

Cherryann01

Truly disgusting, they should apply corn syrup to his privates and shovel a load of ants down is pants. The death sentence would save tax payers money but I imagine they will not last long in a Philippine prison, even murders despise sexual predators, just hope they are put in general population and every other prisoner in there knows what they have done.


Sadly there are many cases like this around the world where the girlfriend or wife knows what their partner is doing and even participates in these disgusting crimes.

PalawOne

Completely agree gentlemen .. and am truly sorry he's another Aussie.


Kind regards everyone

kristopherryanwatson

@PalawOne

Thanks for sharing this update on this vile man.


Strangely, I had thought of him just the other day. there was something on the news about a sex den bust in Davao that was run by an old Brtish dude.

This had prompted me to wonder what had happened to Peter Scully.. now i know. slightly relieved to hear of the justice brought to him, but it will never be enough for what he did

wrevans02

Most of the child rape/murders are by the locals.  They just highlight foreigners to distract from the real problem.  Anyone watching or reading local news will find it is far more common than they admit.

kristopherryanwatson

@wrevans02

they highlight the capture suspected foreigners for these crimes as an effort of posturing with the FBI, and Interpol. it makes them look good to International Authorities so they can acquire international funding for big deal investigations. Yet they rarely go after the local perps even though its so much more rampant with them.  there is a vast network of them, i'm sure.

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