List of Australian Criminals - Child Sex Offenders

Child Sex Offenders

Australians convicted of child sex offences.

• Robert Bropho, convicted of five charges of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 13; died in 2009 while serving a seven year sentence
• Philip Cave, South Australian serial pedophile who molested 17 children between November 1971 and May 2001; sentenced to a total of 50 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years, the longest determinate sentence in Australian history
• Geoffrey Robert Dobbs, labeled Australia's worst pedophile, pleaded guilty to 124 sex offences and one count of attempting to pervert the course of justice committed against 63 girls under his care as a teacher and youth leader from January 1972 to September 2000, sentenced to two consecutive terms of indefinite imprisonment with a nominal sentence of 30 years
• Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, homosexual pedophile, died in 2009 while serving a 20 year sentence
• Dennis Ferguson, pedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland
• Andrew Garforth, convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of Ebony Simpson
• Ronald Gander, convicted of attempting to sell the Boeing house in Brisbane's CBD and sentenced to five years imprisonment; after his release on parole, he was then involved in the imprisonment, prostitution and mistreatment of a minor
• Ronald John Hendrie, serial pedophile who molested 17 children in Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia between January 1968 and July 2004; sentenced to a total of 25 years, 6 months and 25 days imprisonment with a non-parole period of 19 years, 6 months and 25 days
• Brian Keith Jones aka "Mr Baldy", serial pedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole
• Andrew Dean McIntosh, convicted of 42 charges against four boys from 1979 and 1990, sentenced to 32 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 20 years
• Milton Orkopoulos, NSW state MP and child sex offender
• Patrick Power, Crown prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography
• Deryck James Ward, a was-to-be contestant on Australia's The Biggest Loser who was convicted of possessing child pornography weeks before the show was to air, causing Channel 10 to edit him and his sister (who appeared on the show with him) out of the show completely
• David Shane Whitby, convicted of 120 child sex offences committed against eight children between 1999 and 2008, sentenced to 32 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 26 years