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How brave boy, 7, helped take down evil nursery worker paedo
after exposing his sick crimes
Elsa Buchanan
Scottish Sun
16:42, 16 Jun 2022
A SEVEN-year-old boy has been praised for exposing the horrific abuse of a sick paedo who worked at a private childcare centre.
Bronte John Ciracovitch, 35, was handed a 14 year sentence on Wednesday - of which he must serve at least 11.
The dad-of-three worked for the non-government childcare centre Child Care Services Australia, which runs five facilities.
He had worked at the childcare centre in Adelaide's nothern suburbs for at least eight years.
The paedophile was arrested in 2020 after one of his victims, a brave seven-year-old, told his mother about what had happened to him, claiming that Ciracovitch had abused him on three separate occasions.
"That boy's mother correctly describes him as a hero in this story, he had the courage to expose you," Judge Tim Heffernan said, reports The Adelaide Advertiser.
"Your offending only stopped because [that boy] had the courage to tell his mother what you were doing," he added.
The sex offender was unmasked in March 2021 after the Adelaide Magistrates Court found that there were no reasons to keep his name and image suppressed.
Following Ciracovitch's arrest, police contacted 180 families whose children went to the centre in north Adelaide to alert them about the allegations against the childcare worker, in order to build a case.
"My stomach just dropped... I was just like no it can't be," one parent told Seven News about the moment he found out about Ciracovitch's arrest.
"I felt utterly sick, I felt betrayed... I will never, ever trust again. [My son] attended the centre when he turned one and he left as soon as I found out about what happened and the arrest."
The offender pleaded guilty to multiple child abuse and child exploitation charges, but begged the Adelaide District Court for a reduced sentence.
The court hearing some offences occurred at the childcare centre, while the paedo also carried out his vile attacks in his house, including of a four-year-old boy which was filmed on a mobile by his boyfriend.
In another case, Ciracovitch pleaded guilty to maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child in October 2021, but had previously also pleaded guilty to producing or taking steps to produce child exploitation material.
At the time, he also pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child exploitation material
Ciracovitch remained in custody until he was handed a 14-year old sentence this week.
At the sentencing on Wednesday, however, Judge Heffernan highlighted how Ciracovitch had not apologised to his victims or their families.
The judge also noted that the perv had earlier tried to downplay his responsibility.
"Notwithstanding your pleas of guilty, I sentence you on the basis you have only limited remorse and insight into your conduct... I regard you as a danger to the community," Judge Heffernan said.
Rockley, meanwhile, has pleaded guilty to allegedly related charges and will stand trial at a later date.
I have no idea who Rockley is, perhaps Ciracovitch's boyfriend. Or, maybe there's a translation problem between Australian and Scottish?
Woman, 22, ‘gang-raped by five men on Tinder date after agreeing
to meet man only to be attacked by him & four others’
Adrian Zorzut
18:20, 18 Jun 2022
Scottish Sun
A WOMAN was gang-raped by a five men on a Tinder date after agreeing to meet a man only to be attacked by him and four others.
The horror act allegedly took place at the 22-year-old woman's home in Sydney, Australia.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested in relation to an alleged Tinder gang-rape of a young woman
Credit: NSW Police Force
She had invited the unnamed man over on April 16 when another four turned up and sexually assaulted her, cops have alleged, according to Aussie media outlet 7 News.
On Friday, detectives arrested a 24-year-old man and charged him with six counts of aggravated sexual assault in the company of others. He was refused bail to attend court.
A 19-year-old man was also arrested and charged with two counts of sexual assault. He was granted conditional bail to attend court.
Cops are still searching for the other three men involved in the alleged incident.
Sex crimes chief detective Jayne Doherty said the woman had built a relationship with the man online.
When she invited him over, he arrived with the other four men not far behind him, it's alleged.
"They [allegedly] arrived a short time after he arrived at the premises," Doherty said.
"We are looking into the identity of the other persons present during that and their exact roles in those [alleged] offences."
Dutch police installed covert microphones and cameras
in home linked to accused in Amanda Todd case
Court hears police in the Netherlands secretly searched residence
a month before Aydin Coban was arrested
Jason Proctor · CBC News ·
Posted: Jun 20, 2022 5:19 PM PT
Aydin Coban is shown in photographs from the time of his arrest, entered into an exhibit at his trial in B.C. Supreme Court. The 44-year-old has pleaded not guilty to extortion, possession of child pornography and child luring in relation to the cyberbullying of Amanda Todd. (B.C. Supreme Court)
A Dutch police officer testified Monday about leading a team of investigators who mounted a covert operation to install microphones and video cameras in a residence linked to the man accused of sextorting Amanda Todd.
Chief Insp. Joerie van Schiandel said he and three other officers entered the rural holiday bungalow in December 2013, a month before Aydin Coban's arrest, taking care to ensure no one was home when they walked through the front door.
He said they installed microphones and cameras and made copies of the contents of computers and hard drives over the course of two days — all under the scrutiny of a judge, who watched them make their way through the residence via a secure video and audio link.
In dramatic testimony, van Schiandel — who now leads the Dutch national police force's digital intrusion team — said he was also part of the surveillance team that kept tabs on Coban from a nearby location over the next month.
He returned with two of his officers to the bungalow on Jan. 13, 2014 to arrest the suspect.
'We went through the front door'
Crown prosecutors say police in the Netherlands were crucial in linking Coban to an array of social media accounts used to harass Amanda Todd, who died by suicide at the age of 15.
The 44-year-old has pleaded not guilty to five criminal charges, including extortion, possession of child pornography and child luring. He is not charged with Todd's death.
Van Schiandel was one of three Dutch investigators to testify Monday.
He described the arrest in detail, saying he and two plainclothes colleagues had planned to handcuff Coban as he sat behind the screen of his computer in one of the bungalow's two bedrooms.
But things didn't work out exactly as they hoped.
"It was a silent entry. We went through the front door," van Schiandel said.
Chief Insp. Joerie van Schiandel leaves the New Westminster courthouse after testifying at the trial of Aydin Coban, who is accused of extortion, possession of child pornography and child luring in relation to Amanda Todd. (Jason Proctor/CBC)
The officer said Coban emerged from the bedroom to go to the bathroom as police stood in the hallway.
"There was a mirror in the hallway. Through the mirror you could see him coming, and he could probably also see from his point of view the police officers standing in the living room," van Schiandel said.
Van Schiandel said the arrest started in the hallway, but moved into another bedroom as his men struggled to control Coban. The officer said the suspect cut his right eye on a radiator before he was handcuffed.
Once they had Coban under control, van Schiandel said the men blindfolded him and stuck headphones over his ears so that he could not see the police officers removing the microphones and video cameras that had been hidden in the home.
A prosecutor asked van Schiandel if he could identify the man he had arrested.
He turned to his left and looked directly at the prisoner's box before pointing at Coban.
Face-to-face with accused
Earlier Monday, Insp. Sjaak Meerveld described Coban's appearance as they sat opposite each other during 10 hours of interviews conducted in January 2014 after the arrest.
Meerveld said he was a tactical investigator with the child exploitation team when he met Coban at a "complex for arrested persons" in the province of Utrecht.
A Dutch police investigator identified this picture taken from a passport photo as depicting Aydin Coban. The picture was entered into evidence in relation to a man who two witnesses knew as 'Jay.' (B.C. Supreme Court)
He said he and another officer sat across a table from Coban, who was given a transcript of their conversation at the end of every meeting.
"Mr. Coban had light-coloured skin, long straight hair, black with a little bit of grey," Meerveld said.
"I have seen him both with a light beard and a little bit of stubble, but also clean shaven."
Coban is now clean shaven, with grey hair slicked back to a point just above the open-necked collar of the untucked, dark coloured shirts he wears each day.
The Crown prosecutor who questioned Meerveld did not ask the officer what they talked about during the interviews.
Meerveld also identified Coban from a passport photograph entered into the trial as an exhibit during testimony from earlier witnesses.
Two women testified last week about their separate attempts to rent an apartment in Rotterdam from a man they knew as "Jay" who provided them with rental contracts that included a passport page containing the photograph of the man Meerveld recognized as Coban.
Extorted into so-called 'sex-shows'
Crown prosecutors claim Coban began communicating with Amanda Todd in 2009 after coming into possession of images of her exposing her breasts and sticking her hand in her underwear.
During the next three years — when Todd was between the ages of 12 and 15 years old — the prosecution says Coban hid behind 22 fake social media identities to extort Todd into performing so-called "sex shows" in exchange for promises not to share graphic images of her with family, friends and classmates.
Amanda Todd is seen in a photograph entered into evidence at the trial of the man accused of extorting and harassing her. Todd died in October 2012. (B.C. Supreme Court)
Amanda Todd's name has been closely linked with the impacts of cyberbullying ever since a video discovered after her death in October 2012 went viral.
Dutch police witnesses have testified both in person and through a video link from the Netherlands about the two separate searches of the bungalow linked to Coban — both the covert operation mounted by van Schiandel and his colleagues in December 2013 and the search that culminated in his arrest a month later.
Van Schiandel testified that he was involved in a surveillance operation mounted from a nearby bungalow used by Dutch police in the weeks between the first secret search and Coban's arrest.
He said he returned three or four times for three to four hours at a time, and observed only "the defendant, Aydin Coban" going in and out of the residence.
In cross-examination, Coban's lawyers asked one of his friends last week about the accused's attempts to drum up work as a computer repair person, suggesting it was not unusual for him to be in possession of multiple digital devices.
Prosecutors claim Coban was using a neighbour's Wi-Fi to go online, introducing evidence that suggested a router in a nearby home had been accessed by other computers.
Van Schiandel gave evidence about discovering a cable in the home linked to Coban, which he said led from a computer tower to an antenna.
Coban's lawyers have repeatedly questioned whether the trees surrounding the bungalow would have make it difficult to access a Wi-Fi router outside the brick walls of the residence.
The trial is expected to last seven weeks.
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