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Ashley Paul Griffith is a former child care worker from Queensland, Australia. Here are 13 more things about her:
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- He started his career in child care in Brisbane, Queensland.
- Between 2007 and 2022, he allegedly sexually abused 91 underage girls at a daycare center in Pisa, Italy, at a daycare center in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and at 10 day care centers in Brisbane.
- In 2013, he moved to Pisa.
- In 2014, he moved to Sydney. That year, investigators first spotted on a dark web platform several videos and photographs produced by him. In August 2022, the Australian Federal Police traced back objects in the background of the videos and photographs to a childcare center in Brisbane.
- In 2018, he moved back to Brisbane for family reasons.
- From 2021 to 2022, authorities in Queensland investigated him. No charges were filed despite a claim of a female colleague that she saw him kissing a child.
- In August 2022, the Australian Federal Police arrested him while he was employed as the director of a child care center in Brisbane. At the time, his identity was not revealed because of the Australian law that prohibited naming defendants until they were officially awaiting trial. His was jailed at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Wacol, Queensland for a year before he was transferred to Wolston Prison in Wacol.
- On October 3, 2023, his identity was revealed following passed legislation in Australia allowing authorities to identify accused sex offenders after charges are filed publicly. He was charged with 613 counts of making child exploitation material, 604 charges of indecent treatment of a child and 136 counts of rape in Queensland and producing child abuse material, 42 counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child under 10, 68 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10 and 69 counts of aggravated indecent assault in New South Wales.
- On October 6, 2023, an inmate at Wolston Prison poured boiling water over him. He was taken to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Herston, Queensland for treatment for facial burns.
- He was 45 years old he was hospitalized on October 6, 2023. On November 6, 2023, he will appear in the Brisbane magistrates court.
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