Robert Joseph 'Dolly' Dunn (30 January 1941 – 11 July 2009[1]) was an Australian convicted child molester. He was a school teacher by profession, working for the Marist Brothers, a Catholic religious order.
Robert 'Dolly' Dunn | |
|---|---|
 Dunn spent the last 11 years of his life in Long Bay Correctional Centre | |
| Born | Robert Joseph Dunn 30 January 1941 |
| Died | 11 July 2009 (aged 68) Long Bay Correctional Centre, Malabar, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | School teacher |
| Criminal status | Deceased |
| Criminal charge | Child sexual abuse (24 charges) Supply cannabis (3 charges) |
| Penalty | 20 years imprisonment 18 years non-parole period |
Dunn taught science at Marist Catholic College Penshurst from 1971 to 1987.[citation needed]
He began a 20-year jail sentence in 2001 for 24 sexual offences occurring between 1985 and 1995.[citation needed]
In 1996, a Royal Commission chaired by Justice James Woods was shown home videos and photographs from Dunn's collection, which included many images of child sex abuse, usually featuring Dunn himself as the perpetrator. Dunn fled the country, but was later found in Honduras after being tracked down by Australia's 60 Minutes program. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright authorised his extradition back to Australia after he was deported from Honduras to the United States.[2]
Dunn had a long history of abusing boys between the ages of seven and fifteen years old, often videotaping them. Usually, he would offer them money and marijuana in exchange for anal sex. From jail, he repeatedly made written and verbal statements to the effect that he saw nothing wrong with sex between a man and a boy. He previously spent time in Indonesia and the Netherlands. Dunn taught at Penshurst Marist with Bill ' Jedda ' Allen and Greg Hammond, fellow Science Teachers and fellow Paedophiles.
He was a friend and accomplice of Australian diplomat William Stuart Brown, another convicted child molester.[3]
Health issues
editIn 2004 after suffering from angina Dunn underwent coronary bypass surgery. Believed to be at high risk of retaliation from other prisoners, he was isolated from the main prison population. Dunn died on 11 July 2009, aged 68,[4] from multiple organ failure. He would not have been eligible for parole until 9 November 2015.[citation needed]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Robert "Dolly" Dunn". MoodyLaw. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Cornford, Philip (12 November 1997). "How A Hotel Room Sting Ended Manhunt For Dunn". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 16 October 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
- ^ Wayne Miller and Candace Sutton (18 January 2004). "Australian Quizzed over Bali z=Child Sex". The Sun-Herald. Retrieved 15 January 2007.
- ^ "Sex offender Robert 'Dolly' Dunn dies in jail". The Australian. 11 July 2009. Archived from the original on 14 July 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
External links
edit- Sydney Morning Herald
- MAKO Archived 19 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- Connection to William Brown
- Franca Arena's question in the NSW Parliament Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine