Parole plea by child molester rejected

By Emma Spillett
Updated November 6 2012 - 1:40am, first published March 3 2011 - 10:12am
Convicted child molester Denis Frederick Allen leaves Wollongong Local Court yesterday after his application for parole was denied.
Convicted child molester Denis Frederick Allen leaves Wollongong Local Court yesterday after his application for parole was denied.

Convicted child molester Denis Frederick Allen has been refused parole for the second time in two years.The 76-year-old was sentenced to a maximum 14 years in prison in November 2000 for a string of serious sex crimes involving 11 boys.He was sentenced to a further three years behind bars, to be served concurrently, in 2002 after he pleaded guilty to fresh allegations involving a nine-year-old boy and a 10-year-old boy.Allen became eligible for parole in November 2009 but his application was refused.He was refused parole again at a private hearing yesterday but will have another opportunity during a public hearing at Parramatta on March 29. The retired butcher and former football coach preyed on boys for 33 years, recruiting them by preaching the joys of independence and risk-taking and encouraging them to drink.He told a psychiatrist that the boys were special to him and claimed to have loved them.If they resisted his advances he would often resort to tears, tantrums and bribes and, in some cases, physical and emotional cruelty.One victim said that Allen would often play a game of blindman's buff, covering his eyes and then fondling the genitals of several young boys in order to guess their identities.His victims were all affected by the crimes and some suffered major psychiatric problems in later years.

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