No time to read this now Radish but very interested in this topic so will come back to it.

I am a bit hazy about where I heard this some time back, maybe on the Health Report on ABC radio or maybe I read it somewhere. So sorry, can't give a source.

Research has proven that paedophiles have their brains wired differently. We have a part of our brain that induces nurturing and protection of the young in our species and a part of our brain that induces erotic response to stimuli. For most these two areas function separately but in paedophiles they are linked together. What should be their nurturing zone is in fact their erotic zone so the young inspire for them erotic response. If they are born with this brain defect it does stand to reason that other family members may have the same defect.

Having said that I do need to add that there is so much we don't yet know about the brain and it is perhaps dangerous to run away with theories about genetic inheritance.

Whilst there may be a genetic link it does not take into account the environmental factors.

A good point ABBY, nor does it take into account the fact that there are some mentally disturbed and/or just plain BAD people in the world. There may well be a genetic link, but I doubt it - too many other factors at play.

What I want to know is WHY do we still feed and keep this pond scum !  We don't need such creeps on the planet, bring back the death penalty such creeps

Philippines  continues to be a primary destination country for Australian traveling sex offenders..... 256 convicted child molesters travelled there in 2014 from Australia.

Currently the Filipino police prosecuting Peter Gerard Scully who was arrested and charged with sexually abusing 11 children aged between 18 months and 13 years. He allegedly spent years sexually abusing and torturing young children and streaming his crimes online. He has also been charged with the murder of one of his alleged victims, a 12-year-old girl, along with torture, human trafficking, rape and breaking cyber laws.

Unfortunately the death penalty was suspended in the Philippines in 2006.

I saw that monster on TV Abby and my stomach turned.  He was totally devoid of any feeling or remorse for the victims.

Heard that whenever a known paedophile leaves the country to travel to the Phillipines the authorities over there are alerted.  It is up to them whether they allow them into the country;  obviously they are.  Says a lot about them.

exactly Plan GB !

I did not see this but was told about it, I just looked it up, there seems to be so many of these mongrel,  I find it so hard to get my head around such things.

Calls for reintroduction of death penalty in the Philippines: Alleged Australian sex offender Peter Gerard Scully stands behind Philippines police investigator Angelito Magno. Photo: Bobby Lagsa/Inquirer Mindanao

Investigators believe Australians were among the clients of Peter Gerard Scully, the Melbourne man whose alleged sex crimes against babies and children in the Philippines have renewed calls for the south-east Asian country to reintroduce the death penalty.

A 13 year-old girl from an impoverished family, who has emerged as Scully's latest alleged victim, has told police she was supposed to meet one of his Australian clients and perform lewd sex acts in front of a camera.

But the girl said plans were changed at the last minute and Scully instead tried to sell her to a German man for the equivalent of $2924.

She told police when she heard she was going to be sold she ran away from Scully's rented house.

Australian Federal Police investigating Scully's alleged online streaming of depraved child pornography videos suspect some of his international clients were in Australia.

AFP agents travelled to the Philippines last week where police have seized videos showing the 13 year-old girl being forced to perform lewd acts with a baby aged one and girl toddler aged five.

Police have described the video as the most shocking child pornography that has been discovered in the Philippines in living memory.

The video shows whipping and torture as well as depraved acts.

The girl was one of at least eight of Scully's alleged victims who are co-operating in the police investigation along with two of his former teenage live-in partners who were also former alleged victims.

She told police she agreed to work for "Uncle Peter" because he told her mother he would pay for her schooling.

"Because (he) pay a big amount that's why I had to do that," the girl said, referring to acts she was forced to perform.

Police believe Scully abused more than a dozen children over three years in the Philippines, moving house frequently and employing at least four foreign accomplices and half a dozen Filipino workers in a lucrative "pay for view" online child pornography business.

A Fairfax Media Investigation has revealed that 52 year-old Scully had an amoral past in Melbourne and arrived in Manila in 2011 while fleeing from Victorian fraud and deception offences over his key role in a property scheme that rorted more than $2.68 million from 20 investors.

Scully, a father of two, is being held in a southern Philippine jail on charges of human trafficking, murder, child abuse and rape.

He faces life imprisonment if convicted.

The murder charge relates to the finding of the remains of a teenage girl under the floor of a house Scully rented in 2013.