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Subscriber only It is part of human nature to protect children from the evils that lurk in the shadows. Perhaps that is why acts of violence against children hit us the hardest. Over the course of the past 50 years, Queenslanders have been deeply shocked and suffered lasting consequences as a result of predators who target the most vulnerable members of our community. Some of the children who have been taken under the most violent and degrading circumstances have been either unable to fight back, or simply too innocent to know they were being targeted before it was too late.
When predators strike: Child murders that shocked Queensland
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Jason Humberstone, Banglaow
My 13-year-old daughter and her 13-year-old friend tried to catch the bus from Bangalow to Byron Bay on Saturday morning at about 10am.
The driver refused to take them on the bus because they had no shoes. They were left abandoned in Bangalow with no other way to get about.
If you cast your minds back to 2003 you might remember that a 13-year-old boy by the name of Daniel Morcombe was abducted, sexually abused and murdered after the bus he was waiting for, on the side of a busy main road, didn’t stop. He didn’t know what to do, so he accepted a lift from a stranger.
These violent, sick murderers and child sex monsters are out on our streets after being paroled in the past two years. One took part in a gruesome killing where their victim s head was severed with a tomahawk and used as a bowling ball and a puppet. Another was caught on hospital CCTV smothering her baby in its cot, and one is a notorious former bikie involved in a shopping centre shootout. We look at six of our most notorious killers and paedophiles released onto southeast Queensland streets in recent years. It considered a massive 6511 parole matters last financial year and released 2658 prisoners on parole.