Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent talks satanic child abuse ring

Over the last week four men have been arrested in Sydney for allegations of involvement in a Sydney-based international paedophile network.

The network is said to distribute and facilitate child sex abuse material through a website administered internationally.

This was uncovered in an investigation into the online distribution of child sexual abuse material involving ritualistic and Satanic themes.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson told Heather du Plessis-Allan the men arrested were allegedly part of a media network aiming to expose sex abuse rings.

"So it gives the idea obviously that they're there to help, that they're there to uncover these sorts of rings, but the people involved are allegedly also paedophiles themselves," Peterson said.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with ENZ and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oli Peterson, Australia correspondents with US Hallo, Oli Heyda. There
satanic stuff, so bit weird, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Really. We're a bloke by the name of Landon Geramotta Mills.
I hadn't heard of him before. He runs an organization
called the Underground Media Network, aged twenty six and is
the leader of this group. Now. Underground Media Network describes
itself as an independent investigative journalism platform aiming to investigate
issues in child protection and public interest harm. So it

(00:37):
gives the idea obviously that they're there to help, that
they're there to uncover these sorts of rings. But the
people involve are allegedly also pedophiles themselves. So this twenty
six year old man has been arrested, he's the alleged
leader of the group. And then three other men aged
forty six, forty two and thirty nine have been arrested
across Sydney. Now this happened late last week. One of
them was a former swimming coach. But this all coming

(01:00):
to light today by New South Wales Police and as
you heard, their Detective Superintendent Jane Doherty saying the material
was of horrence and some of the child abuse material
and the torture of children that these police officers alleged
to have witnessed on these hard drives they could not describe.
So this is all obviously going before the courts early

(01:22):
next year and it just sounds absolutely horrific.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, that sounds grim. Okay, what's happening with the Defense Department, Well,
they're going.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
To make some major changes foreign Sorry, the Defense Minister
Richard Marles a Deputy Prime Minister. The Defense budget, if
you look at it like this header, it's worth fifty
six billion Australian dollars a year, but within ten years
it's going to go to one hundred billion dollars. Obviously
all around, obviously the investment in Orcus in particular, but
the government is going to announce a major overhaul of it,

(01:50):
going to cut dozens of high ranking officials. They say
they want to reduce the cost blowouts. Now, if you're
going to obviously double the size of the investment and
then get rid of people, is it about trying to
reduce red tape? I don't know. It sounds on the
surface anyway, like it does need a reorganization. There's something
like nineteen projects ongoing from the Defense Apartment at the
Defense Department at the moment, and it's just going to

(02:11):
be about trying to re strategize which particular projects should
be a priority. But it all points towards orcus good
luck trying to make the Department of Defense more efficient
because we've got a hierarchy, right, that's what it's all
built around. It's going to be a difficult task ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
So how much is Australia phizzing for Elbow's nuptials.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, he's paid for it himself. We're told he's all
paid for it himself.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
He's a straight and who paid for it?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, forty people turned up here. But I'm surprised you
and I didn't get an invite. I thought we might
have been on the guest list. Would have been a
bit of fun, wouldn't it. Forty people at the lodge
on Saturday. He's paid for it himself. Even the Opposition
leader Susan Lee and the Nationals leader David Little proud
of all said, you know, good luck have a great life.
And it was described by Jody the Prime Minister's wife
that wherever Obviously the Prime Minister goes to get married,

(02:59):
there's going to be an extra expense, right, because he
needs a lot of security. They actually think they may
have been able to do a little cheaper in the
gardens at the Lodge in Canberra on the weekend. But
the first ever Australian Prime minister to be married in
the grounds of the lodge. Kind of cool. I suppose
they're on a honeymoon somewhere here in a strike. Maybe
they're in Wady's, probably in Perth.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Let me go have a look. Oh no, no one
goes on a honeymoon in Perth. Did she take a surname?
Is she Jodi Albanese?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
No? Not yet, not yet? I reckon she will. I
mean she's already represented Australia on the you know, side
by side with him on the big stage around the world.
She might take Jodi Alberici.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
So she's still Jody Hayden and she's still a modern woman. Yeah,
at the moment, she is good for her.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Did your wife take her name?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah? She did, Yeah, but she had she had a
sort of a German Dutch kind of surnames Easier, Steinhauer.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh yeah, that's quite a nice surname, Agae. I'm surprised
she swapped Steinhawer Peterson. I'm not gonna lie. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Olie has always appreciated Oli Peterson, Olli Peters, Ollie Steinhauer.
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