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A nurse lives in a quiet town in Tasmania, Australia. He spends his life working with children and is the ultimate father figure, but he has a dark secret.
People who still hold positions of power protected him.
He was cleared for Working With Children.
A serial paedophile who spent almost three decades grooming, drugging and molesting vulnerable children – also filming and bragging about his crimes online – has been unmasked as a paediatric nurse who worked for 18 years on the children’s ward at Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania until 2019.
Last October, police in Launceston laid more than a dozen charges against James ‘Jim’ Geoffrey Griffin, a 69-year-old man from Legana, who since 2001 had worked on Ward 4K, the paediatric unit attached to Launceston General Hospital.
The charges relate to sexual offences against children as young as 11 – abuse which Griffin admitted to during police questioning last year. The details of some crimes are so disturbing they cannot all be published.
The seven-page charge sheet spans 28 years, with sex crimes dating back to at least 1987, when Griffin worked as a volunteer ambulance officer for the Tasmanian Ambulance Service. The sexual crimes continue through to 2019, at which time Griffin was working at the hospital while also volunteering as “medic” and “masseuse” for a local children’s sporting team.
On his arrest in October last year, police also discovered a “significant amount” of child pornography downloaded from the internet, as well as child pornography he had self-created. Some included children from the hospital ward.
On internet chat sites, detectives then uncovered examples of Mr Griffin “bragging” to others, outlining how he would use various drugs to sedate little girls “in order to sexually abuse them.”
Now, nurses from the hospital are breaking their silence, revealing how he would use the ward as his own personal hunting ground to “groom” and “target” sick and vulnerable kids. In some cases, he even preyed upon the children of his own colleagues.
The explosive revelations have been unearthed by investigative journalist, Camille Bianchi, who is set to expose all in a compelling true crime podcast called The Nurse.
Charges laid against James Geoffrey Griffin, born 1950
1987-1989 Indecent sexual assault of a victim in Youngtown, Tasmania
1987-1990 4 x indecent sexual assault of a second victim in Youngtown, Tasmania
1988-1989 Indecent sexual assault of a third victim in Youngtown, Tasmania
2009-2013 ‘Maintain a sexual relationship with a young person under the age of 17’ and ‘Sexual intercourse with a young person under the age of 17’. Locations: multiple around Tasmania
2011-2012 2 x indecent sexual assault in South Launceston, Tasmania
2015 Involve a person under the age of 18 in the production of child exploitation material
2015 Distributing child exploitation material
2015 Producing child exploitation material
2016 Successfully passed Working with Children and Vulnerable People check
2019 Possession of child exploitation material
People who still hold positions of power protected him.
He was cleared for Working With Children.
A serial paedophile who spent almost three decades grooming, drugging and molesting vulnerable children – also filming and bragging about his crimes online – has been unmasked as a paediatric nurse who worked for 18 years on the children’s ward at Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania until 2019.
Last October, police in Launceston laid more than a dozen charges against James ‘Jim’ Geoffrey Griffin, a 69-year-old man from Legana, who since 2001 had worked on Ward 4K, the paediatric unit attached to Launceston General Hospital.
The charges relate to sexual offences against children as young as 11 – abuse which Griffin admitted to during police questioning last year. The details of some crimes are so disturbing they cannot all be published.
The seven-page charge sheet spans 28 years, with sex crimes dating back to at least 1987, when Griffin worked as a volunteer ambulance officer for the Tasmanian Ambulance Service. The sexual crimes continue through to 2019, at which time Griffin was working at the hospital while also volunteering as “medic” and “masseuse” for a local children’s sporting team.
On his arrest in October last year, police also discovered a “significant amount” of child pornography downloaded from the internet, as well as child pornography he had self-created. Some included children from the hospital ward.
On internet chat sites, detectives then uncovered examples of Mr Griffin “bragging” to others, outlining how he would use various drugs to sedate little girls “in order to sexually abuse them.”
Now, nurses from the hospital are breaking their silence, revealing how he would use the ward as his own personal hunting ground to “groom” and “target” sick and vulnerable kids. In some cases, he even preyed upon the children of his own colleagues.
The explosive revelations have been unearthed by investigative journalist, Camille Bianchi, who is set to expose all in a compelling true crime podcast called The Nurse.
Charges laid against James Geoffrey Griffin, born 1950
1987-1989 Indecent sexual assault of a victim in Youngtown, Tasmania
1987-1990 4 x indecent sexual assault of a second victim in Youngtown, Tasmania
1988-1989 Indecent sexual assault of a third victim in Youngtown, Tasmania
2009-2013 ‘Maintain a sexual relationship with a young person under the age of 17’ and ‘Sexual intercourse with a young person under the age of 17’. Locations: multiple around Tasmania
2011-2012 2 x indecent sexual assault in South Launceston, Tasmania
2015 Involve a person under the age of 18 in the production of child exploitation material
2015 Distributing child exploitation material
2015 Producing child exploitation material
2016 Successfully passed Working with Children and Vulnerable People check
2019 Possession of child exploitation material
