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Making A Pedo- File

MORE Geelong people are needed to help a group list serial offenders living in the region.
The Movement Against Kindred Offenders, MAKO, operates a website that lists more than 1000 convicted pedophiles and rapists.
The list includes details of the criminal, sometimes a photo, their offences and their known address.
There are at least eight offenders listed as having lived in the Geelong region, in areas such as Wallington, North Geelong, Herne Hill and Bellmont, but most of them are still serving time in prison.
Christina, a Geelong member of MAKO, said the free service was not about naming and shaming the criminal but aimed to prevent more offences from occurring by providing information.
"Every parent should look at the site, it's good parenting," the mother of two young girls who did not want her surname published said.
"It's like telling your child to do their homework, this is homework for parents.
"I'm not a victim, my children aren't victims and I'm doing everything I can to help keep it that way.
"You dont have to be a victim to care."
Child Protection Week was celebrated this month and last week an 18-year-old was in a Geelong court charged with sexually penetrating a five-year-old boy in public toilets in Belmont.
As a MAKO member. Christina helps promote the service, encourages, petitions, hands out leaflets and does letterbox drops in suburbs known to to be the home of a convicted pedophile or rapist.
She also helps research, convicted criminals to put on the website by going through newspapers and attending court.
Christina is only a new MAKO member but wants to form a Geelong group (of MAKO) to help her research- Anyone wanting more information can call 0419762286.

Geelong News (15-9-2004)

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