UPDATE: Ginger Gorman, the ABC journalist who first interviewed Mark Newton and Peter Truong back in 2010, has written an opinion piece for The Drum about how she felt when news of the men’s heinous crimes against their son broke earlier this month.
Gorman writes that she never suspected anything of the men when she met them to talk about what it was like to be a gay couple who wanted kids.
“I see your sweet, shining eyes and your cheeky smile. I can even hear your little voice, imploring me to come and see your baby chickens. If I knew then what I know now, I would have done anything to stop the heinous crimes being perpetrated against you. I would have done anything to end your misery. But I didn’t know. I had no idea. I’m so sorry,” Ginger writes.
Since the story broke, Ginger says she’s been the subject of hateful tweets and blog posts. She questions whether she should have noticed anything when the young boy was innocently running around his parent’s backyard. But in the end she concludes that she wouldn’t have done anything differently if she could go back.
“In my 10 years with the ABC this is the first time something like this has happened to me. Yes, it’s horrifying. Yes, I have been awake at night in darkness and despair thinking about the plight of Boy 1. But despite everything, I refuse to lose faith in humanity. I choose to believe that evil people are rare. Good, honest people on the other hand are not.”
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This story has haunted me since it first came out in the news. I was googling to see what the sentence was and what happened. i hope the Boy is getting intensive, even lifelong therapy, though I doubt he will ever, ever be normal. I so wish him health and happiness. I wish him amnesia of the horrors he endured. I still get this awful pain in my heart when I see TWO WEEKS OLD--two effing weeks old!!!-- these monsters were training/abusing/raping/brainwashing this infant/child.
I am normally against torture. I simply do not believe humane, civilized folks should engage in it. But these monsters make me think some folks should be tortured--long and hard and horribly--to death. To death. That they are still alive on this planet disgusts me and makes me hope they get beaten to death in prison so they aren't here polluting my planet.
Anyone who rapes a two-week-old innocent, anyone who buys kids to train to be sex slaves--straight, gay, bi, omni, don't care-- needs to die as soon as possible. No mercy. NONE. Let God have them to do as He thinks best. And my bet is even God will tell them to screw off to hell.
Here is a very good documentary on this case: https://www.youtube.com/wat...