Australian Pedophile Witch wins parole review*
June 23, 2008 11:30am
Article from: AAP
A MALE witch who enslaved teenage girls has won leave to have his
extended supervision order reviewed.
Convicted sex offender Robin Fletcher was jailed in 1998 for using
hypnotism and mind-altering techniques to entice two 15-year-old girls
into prostitution, sado-masochism and black magic.
After finishing an eight-year prison term in June 2006, Fletcher began
living in a unit within Ararat prison in western Victoria under an
extended supervision order imposed by the Adult Parole Board.
Today, Victorian Supreme Court Justice David Harper granted Fletcher
leave to apply for the court to review his extended supervision order.
Fletcher challenged the conditions of the order - imposed under the
Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act - in 2006 and won.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Bill Gillard ruled the Adult Parole
Board was acting unlawfully by keeping Fletcher at the prison after he
had served his jail time.
Justice Gillard said the terms of the Act required Fletcher to live in
the community.
But later that year the Victorian Government changed the law to ensure
pedophiles could not be released into the community if the Adult Parole
Board decided otherwise.
Fletcher was jailed after pleading guilty to prostituting a child,
sexual penetration and indecent acts against a child under 16.