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Commission of Inquiry hears little done to stop paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin despite report of child abuse material on laptop

 

A person who bought a laptop from Launceston nurse James Geoffrey Griffin found child exploitation material on it and told police almost two decades before Griffin was finally charged over child sexual abuse, Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry has heard.

Key points:

 

In 2001, the buyer of James Griffin's laptop told police "I do not want to think he is working in a kids ward in Tasmania unsupervised, given what I have found"

Griffin had already started at the Launceston General Hospital a month earlier, and in September 2001 moved to the paediatric ward

In 2009, a police search of Griffin's house found a "large number of photos of young girls", with the matter "filed for intelligence" and no notification made to his employer

 

The inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's responses into child sexual abuse is holding hearings in Launceston for two weeks, focusing on the health system and the Launceston General Hospital (LGH), where Griffin worked as a nurse on the children's ward.

 

WARNING: This article contains content that some readers may find distressing.

 

In her opening address, counsel assisting the commission Elizabeth Bennett SC told the hearing that the case of James Griffin was one of "notoriety, rumour and fear", and that he had had contact with children through his work as a nurse, a volunteer ambulance officer, netball volunteer, on the Spirit of Tasmania and at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre.

 

"We acknowledge that some people have chosen not to speak to the commission and we respect their decision and acknowledge that parts of the story may remain untold."

 

Ms Bennett told the commission that Griffin sold his laptop to someone in the late 1990s, who then connected it to the internet in 2000 and found child exploitation material and links to child pornography websites.

 

She said that person made a complaint to Tasmania Police in September 2000, but counsel had been "unable to determine the outcome of that complaint".

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-27/tas-commission-of-inquiry-child-porn-found-on-griffin-laptop/101053144