As heavily armed police swooped in for their sixth arrest in an alleged satanic paedophile ring, disturbing new details have emerged about the alleged actions of three men, including a swimming coach.
A dozen Riot Squad officers, along with Child Exploitation Strike Force detectives, entered the Woollahra home of 62-year-old Colin Milne in Sydney’s eastern suburbs early on Tuesday and charged him with 18 alleged offences.
Some of the charges against Milne, who is due to face a bail court on Wednesday, allegedly involve bestiality and ‘animal crush’ material, in which animals are subjected to extreme torture for the entertainment or sexual gratification of viewers.
NSW State Crime Command now believes it has tracked down a further 145 alleged predators across the world related to what is described as an alleged ‘international satanic child sex abuse material ring’.
The Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that three of the men already charged were living in a squalid prison house and were allegedly actively involved in possessing or distributing child abuse material, with two also facing drug possession charges and one accused of associating with other child sex offenders.
Police said at the time the men, who include former swimming coach Mark Andrew Sendecky, were arrested at a unit block in Malabar, but in fact they were living at Nunyara Community Offender Support Program.
A halfway house in the former periodic detention centre, which backs onto Long Bay jail, Nunyara COSP accommodates men who are subject to community supervision orders, including convicted paedophiles and child killers on release from prison.
Sendecky’s co-accused, Benjamin Raymond Drysdale and Stuart Woods Riches, were both allegedly in possession of methamphetamine at the location.
Former Masters Swimming Victoria coach Mark Sendecky was arrested at a community offenders halfway house allegedly in possession of child abuse material
Sendecky and two co-accused in the Satanic child abuse ring were arrested at Nunyara Community Offender halfway house which backs onto Long Bay jail
Riot Squad cops with Child Exploitation Strike Force detectives entered the Woollahra home of 62-year-old Colin Milne (above) in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs early on Tuesday and charged him with 18 alleged offences
Drysdale, 46, was charged with using a carriage service to make child abuse material and possessing 0.6g of ice.
He was also charged with failing to comply with conditions under the Child Protection Offenders Act, that is, not to knowingly associate with or directly contact any known person who has been convicted of a child sex offence.
Sendecky, 42, is a once-esteemed swim coach for Masters Swimming Victoria and LGBTQI+ swim group, Glamourhead Sharks.
He was charged with both possessing child abuse material and accessing it via Dropbox on the morning he was arrested, November 27 last year.
Riches, 39, was charged with nine offences, including possessing bestiality material that morning, possessing ice and cannabis, and failing to register chat accounts.
These allegedly included accounts with apps Kibbe, Pur Chat, Bigo Live and Snapchat under names including ‘shutdabuckup’, ‘knocturnal’ and ‘tabookinkydad’.
None of the three arrested at Nunyara applied for bail. Also arrested on the same morning was 26-year-old Landon Ashton Versace Germanotta-Mills.
The Lady Gaga superfan was taken into custody dressed in his pyjamas at a Waterloo housing commission flat and charged with multiple offences, including possession of child abuse material, making available child abuse material, and disseminating and possessing bestiality material.
Riot Squad police make their way into a block of flats in Woollahra in Sydney’s east where they arrested Colin Milne and charged him with 18 alleged offences
Former swim coach Mark Sendecky was arrested at the community justice facility Nunyara (right) and charged with allegedly using Dropbox to access child abuse material on the same morning
NSW Police allege 26-year-old Landon Ashton Versace Germanotta Mills (above, under arrest last November) played a leading role in the alleged Satanic paedophile group
Germanotta-Mills, who police allege played a leading role in the group, describes himself as the founder and editor-in-chief of an independent news site called the Underground Media Network.
He boasts to being committed to ‘exposing institutional abuse, systemic failures and the misuse of power’ and his platform as a ‘survivor-led, trauma-informed, and … built by and for those impacted by the systems we investigate’.
Germanotta-Mills also did not apply for bail.
The charges against the latest alleged member of the paedophile ring Colin Milne include nine counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material; two counts of using a carriage to access child abuse material; and two counts of contravening a requirement to hand over passwords and online access.
He is also charged with two counts of disseminating bestiality material, disseminating animal crush material and possessing a prohibited drug and participating in a criminal group.
Former NSW Police Officer David Turner, who once received a Rotary Police Officer of the Year award for his ‘outstanding contributions’, has also been accused of being involved in the satanic child abuse material ring.
He was arrested on January 22 following the execution of a search warrant at an address in Sydney Olympic Park.
Former NSW Police Sergeant David Turner was arrested in relation to a child abuse ring
A number of electronic devices and a small amount of methamphetamine and ketamine were allegedly seized during the search.
Turner, 42, is facing five charges, which include using a carriage service to access child abuse material, using a carriage service to make child abuse material available, possession of bestiality material, and two counts of possessing a prohibited drug.
It’s understood investigators will allege the offences occurred after Turner decided to leave the NSW Police Force.
His current employer, the NSW Telco Authority, said Turner had been suspended.
He is due back in court in March.
Investigators have identified a further 145 offenders internationally, with referrals being made to other law enforcement agencies within Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America and Southeast Asia.
