Perth Paedophile Ring Member Pleads Guilty to 163 Child Sex Abuse Offences

8 men, including Dad, more than 500 charges, including rape;

one little girl

By Joanna Menagh

Perth, Western Australia

Another Perth man has admitted his part in a paedophile ring that involved the repeated abuse of a 13-year-old girl.

Nicholas Adam Beer has appeared in Perth Magistrates Court and officially pleaded guilty to 163 charges including sexually penetrating a child, indecently recording a child and distributing child exploitation material.

Beer was one of eight men, including the girl's father, who were charged (with more than 500 offences) in July last year when the paedophile ring was uncovered by police after a tip-off from a member of the public.

The father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his daughter, has pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges and is due to be sentenced later this year in the District Court.

He arranged for men to meet his daughter and sexually abuse her.


Christian Pastor

A former Christian pastor, David Volmer, admitted his involvement in the ring last year and was sentenced to more than 10 years' jail for offences including giving the girl a stupefying substance so he could abuse her.

David Volmer

The Perth District Court was told Volmer had three sexual meetings with the girl after her father answered an advertisement he placed online for sexual massages.

Beer was released on bail until he appears in the District Court in June.