Griffith is appealing that sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sexual assault support services:<\/p>\n The Child Death Review Board report was ordered by the Queensland government in January<\/a> and had been a pre-election commitment from the LNP.<\/p>\n It used Griffith as a case study to review system responses to child sexual abuse, and make recommendations to improve laws and policies across early childhood education, police, and the blue card systems.<\/p>\n The review identified 18 points or “missed opportunities” where Griffith’s offending could have been disrupted or stopped, had a different action been taken.<\/p>\n Those included times where children and parents had spoken up, and times where he was dismissed from his employment.<\/p>\n The report made 28 recommendations in total, including eight about Griffith’s offending specifically.<\/p>\n The predator in plain sight<\/a><\/p>\n Ashley Paul Griffith abused dozens of children he was trusted to care for, but how he was able to operate undetected has left more questions than answers.<\/p>\n Released publicly on Monday, the review found information and “warning signs” about Griffith were raised and recorded across different organisations and agencies, but this was not shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n It also found Griffith was apprehended only after uploading digital images, rather than in response to any “legitimate concerns” that had been raised by parents and children.\u00a0<\/p>\n It found Queensland’s blue card system “functioned as intended” but offered no meaningful protection to children as it did not alert organisations to the risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n At an organisational level, the report found Griffith was often “moved on”, instead of the risks he presented being “systematically addressed”.<\/p>\n “These findings demonstrate systemic weaknesses: siloed information, fragmented responsibilities, insufficient thresholds for action, and a lack of coordinated safeguarding architecture,” the report read.<\/p>\n Griffith dismissed from employment on more than five occasions<\/p>\n Chief executive of the Queensland Family and Child Commission (QFCC) Luke Twyford, who led the review, said that children, parents, colleagues and centre managers had spoken up about Griffith during his 20 years of offending.<\/p>\n Mr Twyford said Griffith had been dismissed from his employment on more than five occasions, and had been the subject of police and early childhood regulatory investigations into his conduct.<\/p>\n The report made 28 recommendations in total, including eight about Griffith’s offending specifically. (Supplied)<\/p>\n “And yet none of that made a difference,” he said.<\/p>\n “There is something wrong with our system when so many victims, colleagues and witnesses speak up and yet there is no effective outcome.”<\/p>\n The report found the focus on detecting crimes left “children at risk”, and recommended moving towards “detecting safety threats”, Mr Tywford added.<\/p>\n He said if it was true that the systems “didn’t fail but they were completely inadequate, then we must therefore build completely new systems”.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n