Authorities are set to delay the jail release of a convicted paedophile police officer over fears a lynch mob will hunt him down after his new address was leaked online.
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The families of three children molested by the ex-cop have now accused NSW parole board of betrayal after learning he was due to be released from jail on Sunday.
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They were also horrified to discover plans were allegedly in place for Robert John Wotton, 58, to move into a home near a local primary school.
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Wotton was found guilty in 2022 of a series of sex attacks on two girls and a boy, all aged under ten at the time.
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The attacks between 2007 and 2017 involved repeated indecent assaults against the children inside their homes, including forcing one of the girls to touch his penis as they sat on her bed.
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The Daily Mail understands Wotton was due to be released on parole from Kirkconnell Correctional Centre in NSW's Central Tablelands region on Sunday, four years and nine months after he was jailed.
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It's believed this is the earliest day Wotton was eligible for parole, but those plans are now up in the air over fears for his safety.
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Wotton is understood to be planning to live with his wife Virginia, who stood by him throughout the trial and appeared as a character witness for the defence.
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Wotton (pictured with wife Virginia who has stood by him) is a former NSW police officer who sexually attacked three children, who were aged under 10
Child sex offender Robert Wotton was due to walk out of jail on Sunday after being granted parole
But details leaked on social media and sparked letter drops to nearby streets around his prospective address with locals worried about him living near a primary school and playground.
One resident has now launched a petition demanding 'immediate action' to block Wotton from moving into the suburb, which the Daily Mail is not identifying.
It's believed his home is located just three streets away from the primary school.
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'My children visit their grandparent who lives directly across the road from where this vile excuse for a human will be residing,' one woman wrote on the petition.
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'I don’t wish to see the harmony of this street and the freedom of these kids be taken from them.'
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Another said: 'Too close to home don’t want this grub living near me when I have grandkids come around.
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The petition and letter drops are not connected to the victims and their families.
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'We feel totally betrayed.
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The [parole board] has failed our children,' a father of one of the victims told the Daily Mail.
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Wotton was filmed dismissing his victims with a callous 'f*** them' moments before he was convicted of abusing the children in 2022
A man who filmed the incident said Wotton's comments run through his head all the time
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This grub - on my child's eighth birthday - came to my home and said he had a birthday present for them, went upstairs into their bedroom and sexually assaulted them.'
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Wotton, who was in the NSW Police Force from 1990 to 1998, would spend months grooming both the children and their parents, before taking the kids aside and assaulting them.
He'd twice faced similar charges in the 1990s, but both trials ended in hung juries.
The former Acting Sergeant has always denied his crimes and showed no remorse for his victims when he was asked in 2022 if he had a message for them.
'Yeah, f*** them!' he replied, with footage of the incident shared online.
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The Daily Mail understands the footage was given to the NSW State Parole Authority as part of the victims' submission as to why Wotton should be denied parole.
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They also submitted psychological reports, statutory declarations and alleged evidence of Wotton's family members discrediting one of the victims on social media.
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'As a family, we thought it'd hold a lot of weight for the parole board...
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it wasn't just a letter full of emotions, but of facts,' the victim's father said.
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The victims’ families said the NSW State Parole Authority had failed the children after it granted Wotton parole
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But ultimately it held no weight.
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When they let us know his parole had been approved, I just went silent.
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The victims’ families said they were also devastated to learn that Wotton has spent the past 20 months under minimum security, which they say has allowed him to go out into the community.
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'We didn't even know until they sent us a letter...
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it is unbelievable!' the man, who also acts as the victims' representative, said.
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'It's a slap in the face to these beautiful young kids who went to court, who've been going through this for years, even before he was incarcerated.
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He added: 'I don't know how that was approved.
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This offender is a master groomer - has he groomed the system?'
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During sentencing, Wotton was deemed to need serious treatment by Judge Siobhan Herbert, who also said she was 'guarded' about his prospects of rehabilitation.
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It is not known what programmes Wotton completed while in jail.
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However, sex offenders are usually tasked with either a custody-based therapeutic programme or a ‘Deniers’ programme for men who maintain they were wrongfully accused.
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The Daily Mail understands part of Wotton's parole conditions involves a clause that he cannot visit specific council areas in Sydney's west and south.
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A father of one of Wotton's victims said he feels obligated as a parent to call out the 'injustice'
He also must not contact, watch, stalk or harass his victims and their families, nor be in the company of anyone under 16 without an adult approved by his parole officer present.
He will also be equipped with 24/7 electronic monitoring that cannot be removed and will have to participate in 'psychology interventions' from Corrective Services NSW staff.
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The father of one of the victims said he now wants to urge the parole authority to consider tougher measures in the cases of child sex offenders.
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'These guys don't always have to be granted parole,' he said.
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'Please look at the victims' stories and what they have to carry for the rest of their life.
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The father added: 'He may have won parole, but my battle continues on - as far as we're concerned, our children have been denied justice.'
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