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Disturbing child abuse case links Australians to paedophile ring.
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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: It's a case that defies belief and goes against every principle of parenthood.
An Australian man and his partner purchased a baby boy in Russia in 2005, presenting themselves as a devoted pair of gay fathers.
In reality, behind closed doors, they were sexually abusing the boy and allowing others to do the same from when he was less than two years old.
On the weekend Australian citizen Mark Newton was sentenced in the US to 40 years in prison. His partner Peter Truong is awaiting his sentence.
Caro Meldrum Hanna has this report and a warning this story contains disturbing and explicit sexual references.
GINGER GORMAN, ABC RADIO: Testing this is Ginger from ABC far north.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA, REPORTER: It was June 2010, ABC local radio presenter Ginger Gorman was setting out to meet an interesting family in Trinity Beach in Far North Queensland.
GINGER GORMAN: I was putting together a series of interviews on gender. This particular interview was with a couple who were gay dads, and they had been on a long journey to have a child via surrogacy.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: On all appearances American man Mark Newton and his Australian partner, Peter Truong, were a proud couple. Pictured here posing with their adopted son who we will call Boy one. These are the sounds Ginger Gorman recorded that day, playing with the boy and his pet baby chickens in the backyard.
PETER TRUONG: Have you fed them this morning?
BOY ONE: No.
PETER TRUONG: Oh, here's one.
BOY ONE: One's harder to get.
PETER TRUONG: Yeah?
GINGER GORMAN: Do you know what this chicken's name is?
BOY ONE: No, I haven't figured out the name.
PETER TRUONG: I don't think he's named them yet.
BOY ONE: I gonna call them chick nasty.
GINGER GORMAN: I felt no sense that anything was wrong. For all intents and purposes this appeared to be a loving family and a loving household. And I've gone over and over it in my brain and I just did not feel that anything was wrong.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: Mark Newton and Peter Truong were masters of deception, starting with finding a surrogate mother abroad.
(ABC RADIO, JUNE 2010)
PETER TRUONG: I gave up my career and my job and went to Russia to oversee the process and so obviously we're very dedicated to making this work. Our budget was anything that we earned, anything we had saved and anything that we could borrow to make this happen.
GINGER GORMAN: And why was it your sperm that was used, and not Pete's, Mark?
MARK NEWTON: A flip of the coin I think. We'd gone back and forth several times.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: This was the first of many lies told by Newton and Truong, whose depraved secret life was uncovered a year and a half later, when in February 2012 the men were arrested in California. Charged with producing and sharing child pornography and extreme acts of sexual exploitation.
GINGER GORMAN: I'm profoundly shocked and disgusted by what's happened. Since then I am just revolted and I find myself quite despairing about the turn of events.
JON ROUSE, QUEENSLAND POLICE: The purchase of a child to bring the child into your life for the explicit and sole purpose of exploiting him across a network of men is incredibly depraved and a very, very sad tale for that little boy.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: The sad story of Boy 1's life begins here in Russia. According to US court documents, in July 2005 his mother sold him to Newton and Truong for US$8,000. His birth papers were falsified to list Newton and his biological father, paving the way for Boy one to be adopted and brought to Queensland. Six years would pass until August 2011 when a chance discovery was made here in Wellington, New Zealand, by Jon Peacock, a senior internal affairs investigator.
JON PEACOCK, NZ DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS: During the investigation of a Wellington man, the forensic analysis of his machine identified a series of images of Boy one who was shirtless. And they were quite contrived staged photos, if you like that just, as I said, didn't sit right in terms of standard family holiday type snap shots.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: Peacock sent the images to police attached to Operation Argus in Brisbane. The specialised branch responsible for investigating online child exploitation and abuse.
JON PEACOCK: Our reaction is exactly what Jon's was, and that's what sparked the investigation.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: The images were the tip of the iceberg. Police discovered chat logs between Truong, Newton and the New Zealand man, where they bragged about having sex with their son Boy one, since he was little. And had given him to several other men around the world for sex, including two men based in Indianapolis in the US who are being investigated by police.
STEVEN DEBROTA, DEPUTY US ATTORNEY, INDIANAPOLIS: When he was about five years of age the conspiracy was joined, we allege, by Mr Powell who is an attorney in Florida in the United States, and Mr Beda who is …
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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: It's a case that defies belief and goes against every principle of parenthood.
An Australian man and his partner purchased a baby boy in Russia in 2005, presenting themselves as a devoted pair of gay fathers.
In reality, behind closed doors, they were sexually abusing the boy and allowing others to do the same from when he was less than two years old.
On the weekend Australian citizen Mark Newton was sentenced in the US to 40 years in prison. His partner Peter Truong is awaiting his sentence.
Caro Meldrum Hanna has this report and a warning this story contains disturbing and explicit sexual references.
GINGER GORMAN, ABC RADIO: Testing this is Ginger from ABC far north.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA, REPORTER: It was June 2010, ABC local radio presenter Ginger Gorman was setting out to meet an interesting family in Trinity Beach in Far North Queensland.
GINGER GORMAN: I was putting together a series of interviews on gender. This particular interview was with a couple who were gay dads, and they had been on a long journey to have a child via surrogacy.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: On all appearances American man Mark Newton and his Australian partner, Peter Truong, were a proud couple. Pictured here posing with their adopted son who we will call Boy one. These are the sounds Ginger Gorman recorded that day, playing with the boy and his pet baby chickens in the backyard.
PETER TRUONG: Have you fed them this morning?
BOY ONE: No.
PETER TRUONG: Oh, here's one.
BOY ONE: One's harder to get.
PETER TRUONG: Yeah?
GINGER GORMAN: Do you know what this chicken's name is?
BOY ONE: No, I haven't figured out the name.
PETER TRUONG: I don't think he's named them yet.
BOY ONE: I gonna call them chick nasty.
GINGER GORMAN: I felt no sense that anything was wrong. For all intents and purposes this appeared to be a loving family and a loving household. And I've gone over and over it in my brain and I just did not feel that anything was wrong.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: Mark Newton and Peter Truong were masters of deception, starting with finding a surrogate mother abroad.
(ABC RADIO, JUNE 2010)
PETER TRUONG: I gave up my career and my job and went to Russia to oversee the process and so obviously we're very dedicated to making this work. Our budget was anything that we earned, anything we had saved and anything that we could borrow to make this happen.
GINGER GORMAN: And why was it your sperm that was used, and not Pete's, Mark?
MARK NEWTON: A flip of the coin I think. We'd gone back and forth several times.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: This was the first of many lies told by Newton and Truong, whose depraved secret life was uncovered a year and a half later, when in February 2012 the men were arrested in California. Charged with producing and sharing child pornography and extreme acts of sexual exploitation.
GINGER GORMAN: I'm profoundly shocked and disgusted by what's happened. Since then I am just revolted and I find myself quite despairing about the turn of events.
JON ROUSE, QUEENSLAND POLICE: The purchase of a child to bring the child into your life for the explicit and sole purpose of exploiting him across a network of men is incredibly depraved and a very, very sad tale for that little boy.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: The sad story of Boy 1's life begins here in Russia. According to US court documents, in July 2005 his mother sold him to Newton and Truong for US$8,000. His birth papers were falsified to list Newton and his biological father, paving the way for Boy one to be adopted and brought to Queensland. Six years would pass until August 2011 when a chance discovery was made here in Wellington, New Zealand, by Jon Peacock, a senior internal affairs investigator.
JON PEACOCK, NZ DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS: During the investigation of a Wellington man, the forensic analysis of his machine identified a series of images of Boy one who was shirtless. And they were quite contrived staged photos, if you like that just, as I said, didn't sit right in terms of standard family holiday type snap shots.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: Peacock sent the images to police attached to Operation Argus in Brisbane. The specialised branch responsible for investigating online child exploitation and abuse.
JON PEACOCK: Our reaction is exactly what Jon's was, and that's what sparked the investigation.
CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: The images were the tip of the iceberg. Police discovered chat logs between Truong, Newton and the New Zealand man, where they bragged about having sex with their son Boy one, since he was little. And had given him to several other men around the world for sex, including two men based in Indianapolis in the US who are being investigated by police.
STEVEN DEBROTA, DEPUTY US ATTORNEY, INDIANAPOLIS: When he was about five years of age the conspiracy was joined, we allege, by Mr Powell who is an attorney in Florida in the United States, and Mr Beda who is …
The Bible shows that this would happen by people who have "reprobate minds"
Rom 1:28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
When one agrees with the Gay movement you are expounding all this that goes with it.More
The Bible shows that this would happen by people who have "reprobate minds"
Rom 1:28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
When one agrees with the Gay movement you are expounding all this that goes with it.
Rom 1:28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
When one agrees with the Gay movement you are expounding all this that goes with it.