Peter Gerard Scully born 13 January is an Australian convicted murderer and child sex offender who is imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of children. In November , he received a second conviction and was sentenced to an additional years in prison. 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.
Among the victims who had their ordeals recorded and sold over the internet, was a five-year-old who was raped and tortured by Scully and two female accomplices. One example is in Daisy's Destruction that has been found being promoted on YouTube , showing an infant being hung upside down, tortured , and sexually abused, by an year-old female. In , prosecutors alleged that Scully and a girlfriend coaxed two teenage girls to come to Scully's house with the promise of food.
Prior to the video gaining attention by the general public, Scully broadcast Daisy's Destruction privately on a pay-per-view basis. The Dutch National Child Exploitation Team was the first to open an investigation with the goal of locating the victims. Subsequently, an international manhunt for those responsible for the video's production was launched. Scully was tracked in Malaybalay City and arrested on 20 February Investigators had six warrants for his arrest, [ 9 ] all relating to the abduction and sexual abuse of two cousins.
Liza victim 1 was found to be alive as was Daisy victim 2 who had lasting physical injuries from her severe mistreatment. According to Margallo, Scully recorded himself in a video with Cindy victim 3 , in which he raped and tortured her, then made her dig her own grave before strangling her to death with a rope. Among those who acquired and publicized the film were one of the biggest-ever purveyors of child sexual abuse material CSAM , Scully's fellow Australian Matthew David Graham, better known by his online pseudonym Lux.
Apprehended at age 22, Graham ran a series of " hurtcore " child sexual abuse sites. Scully faced a total of 75 charges [ 3 ] and, according to German television news channel n-tv , was alleged to have sexually abused 75 children. His crimes were deemed so severe that some prosecutors supported the reintroduction of the death penalty as punishment for Scully, [ 3 ] despite capital punishment being abolished in the Philippines since In a March interview with Tara Brown on 60 Minutes , Scully said that he was writing a tell-all journal in prison where he would reflect on his motivations for raping young children.
