A Filipino woman who was hired by an Australian couple to clean and care for their family says she was kept like a slave in that she was forced to work in the pair’s grocery shop and had restrictions placed on where she was allowed to go. And when she managed to escape from their southern Sydney home, the husband and wife hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back.
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Joshua McAleer sought the assistance of a private investigator in finding the woman days after she had left the home.
Sydney couple offer $70,000 to Filipino woman they enslaved
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A former Labor party official and Catholic priest told a Sydney court he feels guilty and ashamed for exploiting vulnerable boys in Vietnam and the Philippines for his own sexual gratification and said he never doubted that what he was doing was criminal.
Peter Andrew Hansen, who has also practised as a lawyer, gave evidence during a sentence hearing in the NSW District Court on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty earlier this month to 31 charges, including one of engaging in sexual intercourse with a child under 18 in the Philippines and 15 counts of producing child abuse material.
Peter Hansen has pleaded guilty to a raft of offences involving child sexual abuse.