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ABC News
7 days ago
- General
- ABC News
Trevor Scroop faces court over multiple child sex abuse offences
A man who worked closely with South Australia's Department for Child Protection to house First Nations children has pleaded not guilty to more than 40 charges of sexual offending against minors. The court previously heard Trevor James Scroop, a former ABC employee, had access to more than 100 mostly Aboriginal children under an arrangement with SA's Department for Child Protection. The court previously heard that the 65-year-old had a formal arrangement with the department to care and house young Aboriginal boys from communities in the Northern Territory, at his Adelaide home so they could attend school. The matter has been before the court for more than 18 months but the details of the allegations can now be revealed for the first time, after the District Court removed a suppression order. Mr Scroop was arraigned in the District Court on Wednesday.
BBC News
21-05-2025
- BBC News
Plymouth lifeguard sentenced for filming young girls changing
A lifeguard who used his mobile phone to record young girls undressing in changing room cubicles has been given a two year suspended sentence. Plymouth Crown Court heard how Benjamin Lilly recorded girls aged between 12 and 15 while working at Plymouth Life Centre from 2015 to of Chaucer Way, Plymouth, admitted seven charges of voyeurism as well as counts of attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity, making moving images and category C child sex was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years. 'Swift response' The court heard how in December 2023 a 12-year-old girl saw a phone being used to film her as she dressed in a cubicle after using the swimming told her grandmother who raised the alarm and CCTV showed it was Lilly, who was arrested the next Con Mike Evans said: "Thanks to the swift response from centre staff Lilly was quickly identified and arrested by police."A search of his devices uncovered that he had engaged in similar behaviour for a number of years undetected, by his own admission he would have continued to offend if he had not been caught."I would like to thank and praise the young girl who bravely came forward and reported her concern to an adult, and I hope this sentence will help to bring her a sense of closure."I would also like to reassure other victims of sexual offending that they can talk to us, they will be believed, and their reports taken seriously. "We will do whatever is in our power to bring perpetrators to justice swiftly and effectively." 'Significant number of devices' The court heard police seized a significant number of devices from his home in Plymouth which showed movies of girls aged between 12 and 15 which he had recorded and retained after offences spanned a period from 2015 to now 34, had no previous convictions and there was a realistic prospect of rehabilitation, the court was jailed for two years, suspended for two years, with various conditions. He was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years and given a Sexual Harm Prevention Life Centre has been approached for comment.
