Peter Scully

**Peter Gerard Scully** (Born 13 January 1963) is an former Australian convicted child sex offender and alleged murderer who was convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of children. Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2018. In November 2022, he received a second conviction and was sentenced to an additional 129 years in prison.

## Criminal activities 
Peter Scully lived in the suburb of Narre Warren in Melbourne with his wife and two children prior to fleeing to Manila in the Philippines in 2011, An investigation by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission from 2009 found that Scully was involved in 117 fraud and deception offenses relating to real estate scams.

Victims were procured by Scully with promises to impoverished parents of work or education, or were solicited by his two Filipino girlfriends, Carme Ann Alvarez and Liezyl Margallo Castaña, and other female acquaintances such as Maria Dorothea Chi y Chia. Both Alvarez and Margallo also abused children in Scully's videos. 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 18-year-old female.

In 2016, prosecutors alleged that Scully and a girlfriend coaxed two teenage girls to come to Scully's house with the promise of food. Due to the graphic content, it quickly garnered attention of law enforcement and media. 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 and arrested on 20 February 2015. Investigators had six warrants for his arrest, all relating to the abduction and sexual abuse of two cousins. Graham claimed that he had published the video on his own website "in the name of freedom".

## Criminal charges 
Scully faced a total of 75 charges, with 7 confirmed victims of rape and trafficking. Margaret Akullo, then-Project Coordinator for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and an expert on child abuse investigations, described the case as "horrific" and one of the worst she had ever heard of. His crimes were deemed so severe that some prosecutors supported the reintroduction of the death penalty as punishment for Scully,

In a March 2015 interview with Tara Brown on *60 Minutes (Australian TV program)*, Scully said that he was writing a tell-all journal in prison where he would reflect on his motivations for raping young children.

In October 2015, a fire severely damaged the evidence room containing Scully's computer logs and videos, destroying key evidence. On 13 June 2018, Scully and his girlfriend Alvarez were sentenced to life in prison. Judge Jose Escobido also ordered Scully and Alvarez to pay 5 million PHP (almost US$87,000) to the victims.

Both Scully and his sister complained about the conditions in the jail Scully is held in. Margallo was sentenced to 126 years, and two accomplices, Alexander Lao and Maria Dorothea Chia, were given a 9-year sentence each. In total, there have been 60 cases filed against Scully.

## Journal
Peter Scully once said he would write a journal to explain his way of thinking. A journal does exist, but it is not what he promised. Instead of talking about his mindset, the roughly 100-page book explains how he ran his crimes in the Philippines.

The journal names several people who were involved. One of them is Hanel Kayatano de Oliviera, who became involved while studying medicine. His role was serious enough that Scully and his partner, Lysel Marggo, planned to travel to Brazil in 2013 to meet him.

The journal also mentions selling videos to Marshall Ruskin, a civilian contractor from Canada. Ruskin sent large amounts of money to the Philippines in 2012 before cutting off contact and later avoided charges in Canada. Another person named is Johan Christian Rut, a German man who traveled to the Philippines twice and claimed he would help build a dungeon, though this never happened.

Journalist Bobby Laga, one of the first reporters to cover the case, confirmed the journal exists. He described it as a black notebook with about 100 pages. Although Scully said he would use the journal to explain his motives, including his hatred toward women and children, no such explanations were ever released.

## See also 
*Hurtcore
*Snuff film

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