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During a brutal bond hearing in May, a Homeland Security Investigations agent described some of the horrific material allegedly found on the computer of former reality TV star and conservative activist Josh Duggar, who is currently awaiting trial for allegedly possessing and receiving child pornography.

The agent testified that one video titled “Daisy’s Destruction,” showing the rape of an 18-month old girl, ranked among the “Top five worst of the worst” that he ever had to examine.

Law&Crime’s podcast “Objections” explores the crime case behind that video, which was created by an Australian man described by international tabloids as the “world’s worst pedophile.”

Peter Scully, who is currently serving a life sentence in the Philippines for human trafficking and rape, created videos of his child abuse for an international audience and disseminated them on the dark web.

When he was arrested in 2015, Filipino and Australian authorities invited journalists to tour the crime scene where the video was made. That experience still disturbs Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s correspondent Matthew Carney, who has covered wars and atrocities around the globe and still remembers that assignment as particularly grueling.

“I’ve covered 25 years upon six and seeing the most horrendous things, but what this man did to this 18-month-old child just beggars—it’s inexpressible,” Carney recounts on the podcast. “I’m not a person to subscribe to simple notions of good and evil, but if there is evil in this world, it is Peter Scully and what he did to that 18-month-old baby in his video.”


As a Filipino federal agent described in the segment, the toddler was hanged upside down from a hook on the ceiling during her abuse. Carney said that authorities told him Scully had planned to execute her in a follow-up video, but the toddler was rescued before he could carry out his plan.


Filipino police claimed that Scully buried an 11-year-old girl he allegedly killed under the floor board of a house after raping and strangling her.

Scully peddled his videos on the so-called “dark web,” accessible through the encrypted TOR browser, which is how prosecutors claim that Duggar accessed the video.

According to prosecutors, a Linux partition was installed on Duggar’s work computer, and the user accessed the TOR browser from here and downloaded dozens of child pornography images and videos—including “Daisy’s Destruction”—through the file-sharing program BitTorrent.


“There is a lot of difficulty that goes along with that, not only for our special agents, but our computer forensics analysts that are going through these files and these images, and seeing these most vulnerable in our whole society, our children, and children being hurt and being treated in ways that are unspeakable,” he said.

A court in the Philippines has reportedly found an Australian man guilty of raping and trafficking girls.

Local news outlets said Peter Gerard Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape.

Scully is expected to again face court over another series of charges on June 20.


Scully was arrested in 2015 after allegedly sexually abusing several girls, including an 18-month-old infant.

He also allegedly strangled one of the girls, with her skeleton later discovered buried under a house he had rented.


He allegedly ran an international paedophile ring that raped, tortured and murdered children.

It is alleged he was filming videos of the attacks and selling them online to customers around the world for up to $10,000 a view.