Long Bay Jail V. Ferguson Case

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Many convictions were then placed on Ferguson in his adulthood. He had been sentenced for many convictions such as false presentences, improper assault on females and assaults on children. Therefore due to his offences he was then sentenced in Long Bay Jail. While he was serving time in this foreclosure, he had hatched a plan that would present him as Australia’s most dangerous pedophile. An associated convict that was imprisoned for the sexual abuse of his children. A young daughter who is aged 6, and two young males the ages of seven and eight. This information that was given, was then implanted in Ferguson’s mind. This type of environment and company that he was subjected to would have been one of the basic concepts that were observational

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