He also claimed he was a devoted father to Sophie and that Rachel had concocted two assaults against her. He claimed Elly, who he began abusing just after her 12th birthday, had entered into a consensual sexual relationship. After his arrest, Rachel found 13 SD cards hidden in one of his jackets and police discovered the videos.Īt his trial, Roberts argued that he hadn’t drugged Rachel or Elly, who could be seen comatose during the assaults. Roberts had videoed himself raping Elly and violating her with objects. The District Court had convicted Roberts of 99 indecent and sexual assault charges against Elly when he pleaded guilty because he could not defend them. They found him guilty of indecently assaulting her, and on two counts of indecently assaulting her younger sister Sophie, aged 11. The six man, six woman jury found him guilty of sexual intercourse with Elly when she was aged between 10 and 14 and when she was under his care. On Tuesday, a jury found Roberts guilty of 22 charges of drugging his stepdaughter Elly between the ages of 12 and 16 years and four charges of drugging Rachel. “There were a 100 pieces of a puzzle floating around in my head, and suddenly they came together in my head.”
“In the few months leading up to his arrest, his behaviour had been quite strange but never in a million years could I have imagine this,” Rachel told. She is witty and wise, and yet was completely fooled by her abusive, controlling husband until his self-promoted image as a devoted father cracked. Rachel is a highly intelligent and successful businesswoman.
It is only at the end of the criminal trial for Roberts’s child sex crimes, that the concurrent civil case can be revealed. Incarcerated in Parklea correctional centre in western Sydney, a relative of Roberts is suing Rachel for $100,000 in an unrelated matter. “He’s a psychopath and a narcissist and he not only groomed my daughters, I realise now he had started on a third, his own biological daughter.” “I’ve got six kids to bring up and four of them are his, but he doesn’t care about them. “He drugged me, drugged my daughter and raped her for years, now he’s trying to rob me,” she said. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.He drugged her so he could rape her daughters and was starting to groom his own biological daughter when the police were called, but the nightmare is not yet over for Rachel Knight*.Įven with ex-husband in prison, locked up as a convicted paedophile, child rapist and poisoner, Barry John Roberts* continues to persecute her via the justice system. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services.
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