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A father-of-two branded the “world’s worst paedophile” made two little girls dig their own graves before the body of one victim was later found under an apartment he rented.
Australian Peter Gerard Scully was first sentenced to life behind bars five years ago and during his campaign of terror from 2012 to 2015 the wealthy ‘monster’ preyed on vulnerable and poor young girls.
Scully raped and tortured his victims and placed some in dog chains before predators in Germany, America and Brazil bought video footage of the sex attacks on the dark web.
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He ran the twisted online paedophile ring from Mindanao in the Philippines with his accomplice girlfriend Liezyl Margallo – who will also spend the rest of her life in jail after being found guilty of human trafficking.
As for why he did what he did, a “smug, arrogant and evasive” Scully told 60 Minutes Australia: “The answer is I don’t know. I don’t know the real answer… depraved? Maybe … what I am looking for is the real reason why I took that road and what drove me to it.”
Below, we look back at how the dark web mastermind went from being a married father to one of the most evil men on the planet.
He grew up in Australia and after being arrested he claimed that he was sexually abused by a priest when he was a little boy in Victoria.
But as an adult he appeared to be living a pleasant and normal life with his wife and two children in a suburb of Melbourne.
However, the dodgy character was secretly involved in real estate scams and when fraud investigators closed the net on him in 2011, he fled to the Philippines.
And it was there where he carried out his depraved acts that started by offering impoverished kids money and presents before drugging them.
Outlining his crimes before his conviction last year, a police officer explained: “There is two cases in the Philippines. The first case is the slavery, the fact that he kept two young girls in a house and sexually abused them and tied them in dog chains and allegedly made videos of them, that was one case.
“The second case involves the holding of young victims and sexually abusing them and then it went to violence against the young victims as well as abuse. And unfortunately and horrifically it ended in the death of one of the victims.”
And reporter Tara Brown, who has interviewed Scully in prison, also spoke to one of his victims who said: “After breakfast we were asked to dig a grave… we would be buried in the graves that we were digging… while we were being photographed and videoed that night Peter Scully assaulted us.”
As for her conclusions from interacting with Scully, Tara added: “He was smug, he was arrogant, he was evasive. He seemed to enjoy the attention. But I got to go home and he didn’t so I am not sure how long that smugness lasted.”
And when she asked him how often he got the urge to seek out young girls, he answered: “Hardly ever. It’s not like a hungry dog who has to feed every three hours or four hours. It’s not like that.”
He was first sentenced in 2018 but last year he was further punished to a mammoth 129 years behind bars for dozens of charges relating to trafficking, child pornography, child abuse and rape. His girlfriend, Margallo, was also sentenced to 126 years while two other accomplices got nine years each.
Margallo met Scully when she was 14 and he first hired her as a prostitute before she helped him to lure their victims. She used money made from the child pornography videos to fund designer gear and lavish trips.
They made up to £5,500 on unimaginably horrific clips, including one where a baby was tortured by a woman wearing a mask. The title of the sick video, which featured Margallo, was called “Daisy’s Destruction”.
But Scully was eventually captured after two cousins of the 11-year-old girl found under his apartment managed to escape. They later told their story to the Sydney Morning Herald.
And remembering having to view the videos for the trial in Cagayan de Oro, prosecutor Ruby Malanog said: “They were the most devastating thing I have ever seen. I cried when I was watching them… in fact I feel like crying just now while talking about it. It was hard to believe what I was seeing… that somebody could do these things to children.”
A second prosecutor, Merlynn Barola-Uy, added: “I hope this sends a very strong message to all abusers, all human traffickers, that crime really does not pay.” Authorities considered bringing back the death penalty to punish Scully but he will instead rot in jail. And as for whether he has any remorse, he once said: “Of course I have remorse… You think people don’t have remorse?”
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