Case of John Joseph Kosky
(AKA: Johnathon Kaye)
Retired School Teacher
Perth, Australia
Mount Scopus Jewish College, Burwood, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Thailand
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Convicted for offering to provide a Perth man with young girls and boys for sex in a Thai apartment. The jury was not told Kaye had been arrested twice in Thailand, in 1997 and 1999, on child-sex charges. On his return to Australia, he changed his name by deed poll from John Joseph Kosky, after having problems with the Jewish community.
Kaye lived in Perth but taught at the Mount Scopus Jewish college in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Judge in the case said his crime was "highly exploitive and sexually deviant". He advertised the tour through a gay newspaper. The ad read: "Thai boy, young, fit, hunk, caring and english speaking. Would like to be your personal guide when in Thailand. Prefer older men. Contact my friend in Perth. Kaye organised tours from his retirement home in Perth. Had his name changed by deed poll from John Joseph Kosky to Johnathon Kaye
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Table of Contents:
2002
- Child Sex Tourism Charges (12/31/2002)
2003
- Man ran child-sex travel service from his retirement home, court told (02/02/2003)
- Thai child-sex tour teacher guilty (02/24/2003)
- 71-Year-Old Man Jailed for Six Years over Child Sex Tours (04/04/2003)
- Six years jail for child sex tour (04/04/2003)
Child Sex Tourism Charges
ChildWise - December 21, 2002
http://www.ecpat.org/prosecutions.html
1994 - 2002
1. Anthony Richard Carr (43) Seaforth NSW: was the first person charged under the Child Sex Tourism Law in October 1995 for offences committed against a five year old girl in the Philippines. He was sentenced to six years in jail for overseas and local offences. Carr was first arrested for local offences and when the police searched his home found child pornography involving children in the Philippines. A joint Australian and Philippine investigation found that Carr visited the Philippines to have sex with children and had paid money to a man to use his 5 year old niece in a pornographic video.
2. Andrew Justin Harman ( ): Victoria was prosecuted for sexual offences committed with the defendants 18 month old niece and 3 year old nephew in the United States. Harman pleaded and was sentenced to a total effective sentence of two years and six months with a minimum term of twelve months.
3. John Scott Holloway (55) of Canberra: was the second person charged under the Child Sex Tourism legislation for sex offences committed against boys under the age of 16 in Cambodia. The offences allegedly took place between July and Sept 1994. He was charged in April 1996 and the committal proceedings were heard November 1996. The charges were dismissed as the boys evidence was seen by the magistrate to be unreliable.
4. Jesse Spencer Pearce (76) of Queensland: pleaded guilty of assaulting Thai and Australian children in 1996. He admitted to 32 charges and was sentenced to 9 years in jail. Another Australian was charged (name unknown) with Jesse Pearce but the charges were later dropped.
5. Name unknown: Brisbane: arrested with Jesse Pearce. Charges were dropped after a few months.
6. Raymond John Jones (43) of Victoria: was the first Australian charged in October 1996 for encouraging child sex tourism by promoting others to engage in sex with minors in the Philippines. He was committed to trial in May 1997 but the case was dismissed by the Judge due to what he considered to be insubstantial evidence.
7. John Arthur Lee (43) Karratha, WA: was charged in 1997 of sexually assaulting young girls in Cambodia. He was arrested after he bragged to his workmates about his exploits and showed them pictures of the underage girls. He was convicted in May 1999 and sentenced to 14 years. After an appeal in 2000, his sentence was reduced to 11 years in jail.
8. Harry Ernst Ruppert (55) of Victoria: was arrested in January 1997 after someone told the police that he was organising a child sex ring in the African country of Ghana. Ruppert pleaded guilty of organising and encouraging adults to have sex with children as young as four to train them into child prostitutes. His trial was in August 1998 and the Judge gave him a suspended sentence of six months.
9. Bruce Steele (40 something) of Newcastle, NSW: gave himself up to police in mid 1997, admitting he had sex with boys in India while posing as a social worker. He was sentenced in December 1998 to 6 years in jail The sentence included local child sexual abuse charges.
10. Robert Marlow (55) of Melbourne: pleaded guilty to sexually abusing boys in Fiji and was sentenced on 19 May 2000 to 3_ years in jail. Marlow regularly visited Fiji on business and was arrested after the Fijian police commissioner observed Marlow cavorting in a swimming pool with Fijian boys.
11. John Kosky (70) of Perth: was charged in January 2001 with encouraging child sex tourism. Kosky also known as Jonathan Kaye was charged following a police search of his house in Perth after an investigation into child sex tours in Thailand. The retired school teacher was released on $50,000 bail; the case will be heard in Court in 2002.
12. Ralph Ian Assheton of Perth: IN May 01 Australian Customs Service intercepted a parcel containing literature and computer images which were then referred to the AFP. The images contained boys under 16 depicting sexual acts. The AFP at the time were investigating allegations of offences committed in Bali. In Sept 2001 He appeared in Kalgoorlie Court and pleaded guilty to 2 charges under the child sex tourism act and 12 charges under the Customs Act. In march 02 Assheton was sentenced to 6 years with a non parole period of 3 years.
13. Raymond Colin Smith of New South Wales: was convicted on June 7th 2002 under the child sex tourism law for committing 3 sexual acts with two, 6 year old girls in the Philippines. Smith was sentenced to 3 years jail and will be eligible for parole after 21 months. Smith, a convicted sex offender travelled to the Philippines on the Christian Charity the Mercy Ship. Whilst in the Philippines Smith sexually molested 2 girls and produced pornography. Smith¹s manager discovered this abuse and sent him back to Australia for prosecution fearing Smith may receive a death sentence if prosecuted in the Philippines.
14. David John Gillard 56 of New South Wales: a Baptist church missionary was charged with 7 counts of committing an act of indecency on a child under 16, 5 counts of submitting to an act of indecency and one of attempting to pervert the course of justice. It was alleged that Gillard bribed the victims while in a Philippines jail offering them 100,000 pesos to drop the charges. Gillard was deported and interviewed and later charged by the Australian Federal Police. The AFP alleged that Gillard who is married travelled to the Philippines on behalf of the Baptist Church which ran camps for Filipino children.
15. Name withheld 52 of Queensland : A retired Australian police officer was arraigned Thursday 15th August 2002 on charges of sexually abusing a 12 year old girl in the Philippines. The man appeared in the Brisbane Magistrate Court to face charges he had sex with a girl under the age of 16 on six occasions in July 1998 at Angeles City the Philippines. The man was released on bail and ordered to reappear on September 6th 2002.
16. Name withheld 58 of Melbourne : A Melbourne businessman was arrested and charged with child sex offences arising out of a trip to Thailand in 2001. The man faces three counts of engaging in intercourse with a person under the age of 16. Federal agents arrested the man at his home and seized computer files and emails. He was bailed on $100,000 surety and will appear in court on 26 November 2002.
Man ran child-sex travel service from his retirement home, court told
AAP - February 22 2003
A 71-year-old man had incriminated himself of organising child-sex tours to Thailand by outlining, in phone calls and letters, his ability to arrange boys and girls of any age for sex, a court was told yesterday.
In one letter, former Perth schoolteacher Jonathan Kaye allegedly had inquired of a contact in Thailand as to whether a boy, aged between 12 and 14, had "nice buttocks" and whether he had reached puberty.
Kaye has been on trial in the West Australian District Court, charged with offering to help someone engage in indecent conduct with a person under 16 outside Australia. It is the first trial involving this charge.
The court was told by the Crown that the calls and letters supported evidence given by a prospective traveller, Graham Adair, 70, leaving no doubt Kaye offered to set up children under 16 for sexual conduct in Thailand.
The four-day trial has been told Kaye was running an informal travel business from his retirement home. He would advertise cheap accommodation, and receive calls from people genuinely interested in that service.
But while on the phone, he would also put out feelers to see if callers were after "additional services" such as Thai children.
The Crown prosecutor, Graeme Allen, told the jury Kaye met Mr Adair and spoke to him specifically about providing children aged under 16. One of the boys, Mex, was between 12 and 14.
Mr Allen said Kaye was in control of planning a trip with Mr Adair to Thailand, arranged for February 5, 2001. This was clear from a letter Kaye had sent to a contact there, in which he said he could take up to two boys in his apartment but "more than two I will give to Graham".
Police investigated Kaye after an ad was placed in a Perth newspaper. They intercepted 1323 phone calls to and from Kaye's home in January 2001.
The jury has been told Kaye is not on trial for his own sexual activities in Thailand, but that evidence about his sexual proclivities was relevant to his ability to provide underage boys.
To this end, the court was read letters Kaye had written to Thai contacts. One was to someone he described as a Buddhist monk, known as Mo, whose son, Moo, was among boys whose services Kaye had procured for himself.
"Mo, tell me more about Mex. What is his correct age? Is he tall, small? Body? Does he have ... nice buttocks and has he reached puberty?" the letter read in part. "I need a boy who's sexy and horny."
Kaye's counsel David Moen has said Kaye's business, JK Imports, was a legitimate, registered business. The jury was expected to retire late yesterday.
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Thai child-sex tour teacher guilty
AAP - February 24, 2003
A 71-year-old former Melbourne school teacher has been told to expect a long jail term for his sexual deviance in organising child-sex tours to Thailand.
Jonathon Kaye has been convicted after the first trial of its kind in Australia, for offering to provide a 70-year-old Perth man with young girls and boys for sex in a Thai apartment.
A jury of eight men and four women deliberated for less than three hours before finding Kaye guilty of a crime for which he was arrested in January 2001 after police tapped 1,323 phone calls made to and from his retirement home.
His four-day West Australian District Court trial was told Kaye ran a travel business from his home, and had canvassed callers' possible interest in sex tours to Thailand.
Police pounced after Kaye told 70-year-old Graham Adair he could provide boys and girls of any age.
Mr Adair denied in his evidence that he was interested in young boys or child pornography.
The jury was not told Kaye had been arrested twice in Thailand, in 1997 and 1999, on child-sex charges.
He had been caught in raids linked to a British school teacher and two Dutch men.
The charges did not go to trial there, but Kaye was eventually deported to Australia.
On his return, he changed his name by deed poll from John Joseph Kosky, after having problems with the Jewish community.
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AAP Information Services - April 4, 2003
A 71-year-old self-proclaimed child-welfare proponent was today jailed for six years for organising a child sex tour in Thailand from his Perth retirement home.
But former Melbourne schoolteacher Jonathan Kaye maintained he was framed and would appeal his conviction - the first of its kind in Australia.
Kaye was sentenced in the West Australian District Court after being found guilty of the crime for which he was arrested in January 2001 after police tapped 1,323 phone calls made to and from his retirement home.
Judge Shauna Deane told Kaye today the jury last month had been convinced he offered an additional service to his travel business, and had offered to arrange child sex for a client, Graham Adair, 70.
Adair - who responded to Kaye's travel advertisement in a gay newspaper which he found in a sauna - testified that Kaye claimed to have had sex with a 16-year-old boy and to have "smoked" an even younger child's penis.
Adair, who denied any interest in child sex, said Kaye advised him to take a honey dispenser and stimulation items, to Thailand.
Defence lawyer David Moen said Kaye denied the crime and would appeal his conviction.
However Kaye had expressed remorse for placing the ad in a gay newspaper where it could have been misconstrued, Mr Moen said.
The ad read: "Thai boy, young, fit, hunk, caring and English speaking, would like to be your personal guide when in Thailand. Prefer older men. Contact my friend in Perth."
Judge Deane told Kaye his crime was "highly exploitative and sexually deviant".
She said the Australian parliament clearly felt, through the wording of the Child Sex Tourism provisions of the Crimes Act, there was no difference whether a sex act took place or not.
Judge Deane said Kaye had a long history of working with children as a teacher in Melbourne, WA and overseas.
He had sponsored several male Asian students and supported Save the Children Australia.
Kaye changed his name by deed poll from John Joseph Kosky, after having problems with the Jewish community.
The problems arose after he was arrested, but not convicted, in Thailand in 1997 and 1999, over child sex related offences.
Kaye was today sentenced to six years jail with a non-parole period of three years. The commonwealth offence carries a 17 year maximum penalty.
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Townsville Bulletin - April 4, 2003
A 71-year-old self-proclaimed child-welfare proponent has been jailed for six years for organising a child sex tour in Thailand from his Perth retirement home.
But former Melbourne schoolteacher Jonathan Kaye maintained he was framed and would appeal his conviction - the first of its kind in Australia.
Kaye was sentenced in the West Australian District Court after being found guilty of the crime for which he was arrested in January 2001 after police tapped 1,323 phone calls made to and from his retirement home.
Judge Shauna Deane told Kaye today the jury last month had been convinced he offered an additional service to his travel business, and had offered to arrange child sex for a client, Graham Adair, 70.
Adair - who responded to Kaye's travel advertisement in a gay newspaper which he found in a sauna - testified that Kaye claimed to have had sex with a 16-year-old boy and to have "smoked" an even younger child's penis.
Adair, who denied any interest in child sex, said Kaye advised him to take a honey dispenser and stimulation items, to Thailand.
Defence lawyer David Moen said Kaye denied the crime and would appeal his conviction.
However Kaye had expressed remorse for placing the ad in a gay newspaper where it could have been misconstrued, Mr Moen said.
The ad read: "Thai boy, young, fit, hunk, caring and English speaking, would like to be your personal guide when in Thailand. Prefer older men. Contact my friend in Perth."
Judge Deane told Kaye his crime was "highly exploitative and sexually deviant".
She said the Australian parliament clearly felt, through the wording of the Child Sex Tourism provisions of the Crimes Act, there was no difference whether a sex act took place or not.
Judge Deane said Kaye had a long history of working with children as a teacher in Melbourne, WA and overseas.
He had sponsored several male Asian students and supported Save the Children Australia.
Kaye changed his name by deed poll from John Joseph Kosky, after having problems with the Jewish community.
The problems arose after he was arrested, but not convicted, in Thailand in 1997 and 1999, over child sex related offences.
Kaye was today sentenced to six years jail with a non-parole period of three years. The commonwealth offence carries a 17 year maximum penalty.
Kaye's sentence was handed down just a day after legislation was introduced before the WA parliament to raise the maximum jail term for travel agents who arrange overseas paedophile sex tours to 20 years.
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