Peter Scully
Australian criminal, rapist and torturer
Peter Gerard Scully (born 13 January 1963) is an Australian convicted child sex offender and murderer who is imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of the murder of a 12-year-old girl, one count of human trafficking, and five counts of rape by sexual assault of children. Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2018. In November 2022, he received a second conviction and was sentenced to an additional 129 years in prison.
Criminal activities
Peter Scully lived in the suburb of Narre Warren in Melbourne with his wife and two children prior to fleeing to Manila in the Philippines in 2011, before he could be charged with his involvement in a property scheme that cost investors over A$2.68 million. According to his own statement, he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in Victoria as a child. Prior to leaving Melbourne, he operated an unlicensed online escort service, which offered his Filipino partner as a sex worker. Scully ran a real estate scheme called "The Key Result" where low credit and low income earners who would not usually qualify for a home loan paid above-market rent for a home owned by an investor, with the expectation that they would acquire the title after five years. The Key Result scheme went into liquidation in 2005 owing $2.6m. An investigation by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission from 2009 found that Scully was involved in 117 fraud and deception offenses relating to real estate scams.
Child sex abuse
From the island of Mindanao, Scully built up and headed a lucrative international child sexual abuse ring that offered pay-per-view video streams on the dark web of children being sexually abused and tortured.
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