(**WARNING** THIS POST CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF EXTREME CHILD ABUSE, PAEDOPHILIA, VIOLENCE, SOME SWEARING AND SOME SCENES THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU FEEL ILL. PLEASE, PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION.)
I’m not trying to take away from the topic of Peter Scully, we’ll get to that ‘thing’ in a second, but I was reading a news article from 2014 a while back, and it gave information that the Pope reported that 2% of Catholic Clergymen are paedophiles. However, if we put this statistic into normal society – the numbers are often harder to find, and why is this? Dr. James Cantor, a psychologist and sexual behavior scientist at the University of Toronto said “Because paedophilia is so secretive and so few people are willing to admit it, there is no meaningful way to get a reliable estimate.”
Dr Michael Seto, a clinical and forensic psychologist at the Royal Ottawa Healthcare group, however, decided to brave science and attempted an estimate. In 2008, he wrote a book in which he put paedophilia in the general population at 5%. This meant, that roughly, around 5% of males and females worldwide have paedophilic tendancies. The figure was based on surveys done in Germany, Norway and Finland whereby men and women were asked whether they ever had sexual thoughts or fantasies about children or engaged in sexual activity with children. But Dr. Seto stresses that 5% was an UPPER estimate and that studies were slightly limited in what they revealed.
“What those surveys don’t include are questions on the intensity of those thoughts and fantasies, whether they were repeated or not. Someone might say ‘yes’ because they once had a fantasy but our understanding of paedophilia would be that person recurringly had sexual thoughts and feelings about children.“
However, now in 2017, with more data and better methodology, Dr. Seto has brought that percentage down to 1% or the population but still makes clear this is an educated guess. One problem that still haunts Seto’s findings is that the term ‘paedophile’ means different things to different people. It’s common for men 18+ to be attracted to 18-20 year olds. It’s not unusual for a 16 year old to be attractive to many men and the younger down the field you go, less and less men are interested – but there’s always going to be a percentage still interested. Dr. Seto thinks that if we say a paedophile is someone attracted to those aged 14 and under, he estimated that the paedophile population could reach the 2% figure. However, if it’s classed as an attraction to pre-pubescent children, then it’s much lower than 1%. Despite this, as of 2015, Dr. Seto and his colleagues agree that a paedophile is someone who has a sexual interest in pre-pubescent children, so those under the age of 12.
But, back to the Pope and his estimate. How would he define a paedophile? No-one knows, but, there is a trail of clues. John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, carried out a well known study of Catholic Church child abusers. It went to each diocese in the US and found all plausible accounts of abuse involving clergy who served between 1950 and 2002 – and they found that 4.2% had been accused of child abuse including allegations of abusing teens as well as pre-pubescent children. This investigation is not perfect though as, for some reason, 40% of the allegations referred to abuse has said to have been carried out in a 6 year period between 1975–1980.
All I can say from my research is the figures are and will always have imperfections – both for the number of active paedophiles in the Church as well as in general population, they’re hard to find and always are going to be hard to compare.
Anyway, I’m done with my rant. This, is Peter Scully.
Peter Gerard Scully is an Australian who was born on the 13 January 1963. He’s a criminal, one of the worst types of criminal, charged with abduction, human trafficking, rape, torture and murder.
Background – In 2011, Scully fled from Melbourne, Australia to the Philippines before he could be charged with 117 counts of fraud and deception offences relating to his involvement with a crooked proerty scheme. From the Island of Mindanao, he is alleged to have then built up a lucrative paedophile ring that offered pay-per-view video streams of young children being tortured and sexually abused on the dark web. Among the victims was a 5 year old girl who was hung upside down whilst Scully and 2 accomplices raped and tortured her. Victims were chosen by Scully himself, he would promise their parents work, and told them he would educare their child by him or one of his 2 Filipino girlfriends, Carme Ann Alvarez and Liezyl Margallo – both of these women were featured in Scully’s videos.
One video involved the entrapment of 2 cousins, aged 9 and 12, who might have narrowly avoided being murdered. After Alvarez, a former child prostitute herself, had lured the 2 girls by offering food, Scully forced them to perform sex acts on each other, which he photographed and videoed. With Alvarez’s assistance, he sexually abused both girls. The girls were kept chained in dog collars, and after an attempt to flee, they were forced to dig what they were told were their graves. After 5 days of abuse, Alvarez pitied them and released them, letting them escape. The cousins went to police where after Alvarez was arrested and Scully went on the run.
On 4Chan, is where I initially heard about one of Scully’s most prolific film ‘Dafu Love‘, a snuff film that is one of the most horrific films ever made. According to second hand accounts I have read about, the video features a real Australian man living in the Philippines (Scully) torturing babies to death. Rumour is they use a hammer and chisel to break a baby’s skull. They also disembowel another baby before beating 2 babies together as although they’re having a pillow fight – this is until the impact finally kills them. I’ve looked for evidence this video existed, and found next to nothing concrete. It’s hard to find anyone who’s come across this video and given its abhorrent content, it’s no wonder no-one’s openly admitted to watching it. If anyone did say they’d watched it, they’d be confessing to a crime. According to Frank Kardasz, a former commander of the Arizona Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, “We have in the past arrested ‘researchers’ who then unsuccessfully tried to invoke a free speech protection for their image collection.”
If this video does exist, it would be on the deep web – a study showed that 80% of the deep web is connected in someway to paedophilia. That follows a long trend of paedophiles using technology to gather collections of child pornography. Today, there are law enforcement teams focused solely on the deep web, “There are more difficult cases where the child abuse material is being hosted on the Deep Web, and much of it is taken down very quickly” said Detective Roy Calarese of the Chester County Computer Forensics Lab.
According to reports from the Australian media, Scully was paid over $10,000 AUD by those who wanted to see his most notorious film, “The Desctruction of Daisy“, which allegedly features the torture of a 2 year old baby. Made in 2012, the multi-part film is so extreme some regard it as an urban legend. It shows the torture and brutal rape of 3 girls, Liza (12), Cindy (11), and Daisy (2). Most of the abuse, and the worst of the abuse was carried out by one of Scully’s girlfriends Margallo. It seemed she was the sole hands-on victimiser of Daisy, the introduction to the film invites the viewer to watch Daisy’s ‘mental ruin’ as she learns how to ‘please her Mistress’.
Scully put this video on his production company ‘No Limits Fun‘, selling it to others. One of the people was one of the biggest purveyors of child pornography, fellow Australian Matthew David Graham. Arrested at age 22, he ran a series of ‘torture’ child porn sites. Graham said he purchased the video in order to get more people to visit his website. After the video had surfaced in Europe, Scully’s face was blurred out but his Australian accent gave investigators enough to try and find him in a worldwide search. When Scully was interviewed by 60 Minutes, his answers as to why he did what he did were vague and non-apologetic, it’s not that he lacks this remorse but he’s completely divorced from this situation.
[This video shows the 60 Seconds piece on Peter Scully – this will give some more information on Scully’s arrest and an interview with him.]
Arrest – Scully was gradually tracked down to Malaybalay City in the Philippines and on 20 February 2015, he was arrested. Investigators had 6 warrants for Scully’s arrest, all related to the abduction and sexual abuse of the 2 cousins. Investigators managed to uncover the fates of the 3 victims in Daisy’s Desctruction. Liza was alive, as was Daisy, but her treatment was so vicious she had lasting physical injuries. 11 year old Cindy had later been murdered by Scully and her bones were found buried under floor tiles in a house. She was subjected to rape and torture, and was made to dig her own grave before being strangled to death with a rope. According to Margallo, Scully video taped himself killing Cindy. Scully faces a total of 75 charges. Despite claiming he feels remorse, he has pleaded not guilty to them all, meaning victims will have to relive this ordeal in court. He’s on trial with others who assisted in this pornography production including 4 other men; German Christian Rouche, Filipinos Alexander Lao and Althea Chia and Brazilian Doctor Haniel Caetano de Oliveira. In October 2015, a fire severely damaged the evidence room containing Scully’s computer logs and videos, destroying key evidence. Some believe Scully bribed a police officer.
In 2017, Scully escaped the looming threat of the death sentence after Filipino politicians excused the crimes of rape, treason and plunder from a bill that reintroduced capital punishment in the country. Supporters of the Bill agreed to exclude these crimes from the list; the law passed by 216 votes to 54.
My Opinion – Anyone who’s ever read anything I’ve put out will realise I’m clearly not a criminologist or anyone with a particular insight – just a fact giver. But seeing as we’re at the end, (FINALLLLY!!! I’m sure you’re saying), I’m going to give you my opinion and theory on Peter Scully.
Scully isn’t just a paedophile, a rapist, a torturer or a monster – he’s a psychopath. Some tell tale signs are low levels of fear, poor impulse control and lack of empathy; sound familiar? But what made me tick was Scully’s claim he didn’t start behaving this way until he was in the Philippines. I believe this is bullshit as he has a past case of fraud and clearly had no morals or remorse for this and led him into a deeper hole of crime. He robbed people through property deals, this was his buzz, his adrenaline was pumping and since he fled this situation; he needed a new adrenaline rush in the Philippines.
Peter Scully is planning to release a book of memoirs. It will make fascinating reading but, whatever he rights, even if he gives facts, proof, time, dates, people, who, what, when, where and why; I won’t believe any word he’s written. You can never, ever trust a psychopath – they lie and manipulate for their own gain. How people like Peter Scully become whoever they are is a mystery (hence why I filed this under my mysteries section).
Murders, Mysteries and Missing 