Sex monster, 70, who raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint but was allowed to live next to a SCHOOL 'is forced to move' because children fear they'll be attacked
- Child rapist Robert Fardon, 70, has been living just metres from a primary school
- He was first convicted in 1967 for sexual abuse offences against 10-year-old girl
- He went on to commit a string of horrific sexual crimes against women and girls
- On Tuesday, it was revealed Fardon is staying at a home in south Brisbane
- Later that night there were reports he has been moved because locals knew
A serial sex offender who raped a 12-year-old girl has reportedly been forced out of his new house after locals found out he was living next to a school.
Robert Fardon, 70, has spent more than 30 years in jail for sex offences in the 1960s and 1980s.
He was released in 2013 and moved into state-sponsored housing in south Brisbane but was subject to 30 strict conditions including having to wear an electronic ankle bracelet.
Sex offender Robert Fardon (pictured on the train after his release from jail) has moved into a home just metres from a primary school and a child care centre
Last month, after five years without offending, a judge found the child rapist should be allowed to live unsupervised.
Word spread that he had moved into a house in a leafy south Brisbane suburb and was living just a few hundred metres from a school and childcare centre.
But Fardon has apparently been moved from the housing commission property after furious neighbours found out he was living on their street, the Courier Mail reported.
A neighbour who lived opposite the house told the newspaper she saw a man with short hair move in a few weeks ago after being dropped off by a government agents.
But she said the house has appeared empty for three or four days.
Mother Tracey Innes told the newspaper that her son came home from school and told her: 'There's a serial rapist living down the street'.
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She said the children were talking about it at school and the news spread fast around parents.
Another mother said: 'I'm horrified, I'm very scared, it's not good, I don't know what to do.
'I have two young kids I don't feel safe in my own home. We can't live here with that - I have two young kids.'
Police refused to comment on Fardon's location but said they are monitoring him 24/7, that he is not in good health and he does not pose a risk.
Commissioner Ian Stewart said: 'We certainly believe that the accommodation that he has doesn't place the community at risk.'
Two Queensland judges found the child rapist (pictured in January 2019) should be allowed to live unsupervised in the community in a decision made public last month. The 70-year-old recently shaved off his beard
Last month vigilantes were warned to stay away from Fardon.
Civil Liberties Council vice-president Terry O'Gorman said his team would 'closely watch' vigilante attention on the rapist.
Fardon is no longer classed a dangerous prisoner and recently moved out of the state-sponsored housing where he had been living since his release from prison in 2013.
He was first convicted in 1967, then aged 18, for sexual abuse offences against a 10-year-old girl, and went on to commit a string of crimes against women and girls.
In 2003 he became the first person to be jailed in Queensland indefinitely under new laws targeting repeat sex offenders but was later released on a supervision order.
SERIAL RAPIST ROBERT FARDON'S LIFE OF CRIME
1967 - Convicted at 18 for attempted carnal knowledge of a girl under ten. Released on a good behaviour bond.
1978 - Raped a 12-year-old girl, wounded her sister. Fled to the Northern Territory but was caught and jailed.
1988 - Broke parole by travelling to Townsville. Violently raped and assaulted a woman. Sent back to jail.
2003 - Became the first person in Queensland to be jailed indefinitely under new laws targeting repeat sex offenders.
2006 - Released on a supervision order with 32 conditions.
2007 - Breached the order by going to a school, breaching curfew and travelling to Townsville. He's briefly returned to prison before released in October.
2008 - Re-arrested over rape of a 61-year-old intellectually disabled woman.
2010 - Sentenced to 10 years' jail for the rape. The conviction was quashed on appeal a few months later but Fardon remained in jail due to other earlier breaches of a supervision order.
2011 - Government launches lengthy court battle to keep him in jail.
2013 - Released on supervision order.
2014 - Brief return to prison before court orders Fardon's release into supervised accommodation.
2018, August - Court denies a Queensland government bid to extend a supervision order governing how Fardon lives in the community. It expires in October.
2019, January - Fardon has been released into the community and is now free to live wherever he chooses, and is also not subject to electronic monitoring, curfews or mandatory counselling
Source: AAP
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