TrendTrackersNews

A former child care worker in Australia pleaded guilty Monday to more than 300 counts of raping, sexually abusing and exploiting dozens of girls under his care.

The charges against 46-year-old Ashley Paul Griffith were so extensive that it took Judge Anthony Rafter more than two hours to read them inside a packed Brisbane courtroom on Monday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.

According to police – who accused him of being one of Australia’s worst pedophiles when the charges against him were made public last year – Griffith committed the offenses at child care centers where he worked between 2003 and 2022 in Australia and Italy.

Lucia Suarez Sang