A far-left homosexual aboriginal journalist accused of being the ringleader of a global satanic paedophile network has been released on bail to live in a small NSW town.
Landon Ashton Versace Germanotta-Mills, 27, is among six men – including a former NSW Police officer and an “LGBTQIA+” swim coach – who were arrested in Sydney by Strike Force Constantine and charged with a raft of child abuse material, bestiality material and drug offences between November and February.
He appeared in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday via videolink where his lawyer asked Justice Belinda Rigg to grant him bail to live with his mother in the town of Wellington, near Dubbo, in the Central West region of NSW.
A far-left homosexual aboriginal journalist is among four men arrested in Sydney over an alleged satanic paedophile ring.
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Commonwealth prosecutor Zoe Brodie argued against bail, calling proposed conditions “inherently weak” and warning they would be difficult to enforce, especially a ban on internet use, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Justice Rigg said there was an “apparent strength to the prosecution case”, called the allegations “serious” and said Germanotta-Mills faced a “real prospect of full-time imprisonment” if convicted, but said there was no indication the accused would not comply with his bail conditions.
She found concerns about him reoffending or endangering the community could be managed with strict conditions including home detention with no children visitors, an internet and phone ban, reporting to police, not contacting witnesses, surrendering his passport, and a ban on drug and alcohol consumption.
Germanotta-Mills was also ordered to seek medical attention for serious mental health issues, and Justice Rigg noted there was a “50-day wait for mental health practitioners in custody”, NewsLocal reported.
A former Network 10 intern, Germanotta-Mills describes himself as a “Wiradjuri investigative journalist” and before his arrest regularly posted far-left extremist content on social media, including demands for Australia Day to be abolished, promotion of Black Lives Matter, and articles attacking neo-Nazis.
He also made multiple posts calling himself gay and celebrating homosexuality and “transgenderism”.
Germanotta-Mills and his co-accused are yet to enter pleas to the charges, which relate to material described by police as “among the most extreme we have seen” and which allegedly involved baby victims, the “use of satanic iconography”, and torture.
The last to be arrested was HIV-positive homosexual Colin Milne, 62, in February, while former Rotary award-winning NSW Police officer David Charles Turner, 42, was arrested two weeks earlier.
Benjamin Raymond Drysdale, 46, swim coach Mark Andrew Sendecky, 42, and Stuart Woods Riches, 39, were arrested at Malabar’s Nunyara Community Offender Support Program, which backs onto Long Bay jail and accommodates men, including convicted paedophiles, after their release from prison.
After Milne’s arrest police said investigators had identified another 145 alleged offenders overseas, and sent referrals to other law enforcement agencies within Australia, USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, New Zealand, South America, and South East Asia.
Left, Landon Ashton Versace Germanotta-Mills (Instagram). Right, Germanotta-Mills being arrested (NSW Police).
