A former Tasmanian cop repeatedly groomed boys over his decades-long career. A report into Paul Reynolds has outlined how he used his standing in the community to do it.
A report handed down into disgraced former Senior Sergeant Paul Reynolds has highlighted the way his standing in the community was used as a tool to groom more than 50 boys over three decades.
The report paints a horrifying picture of how Reynolds used his position of respect in the football community and as a police officer again and again to earn and then betray the trust of young people and those who cared about them.Ms Weiss argues that understanding how Reynolds groomed victims is crucial to ensuring it doesn't happen again.
In the years before his death he went to almost all the Deloraine Football Club's games and was always in the change rooms, often giving pre-game rub-downs to young players, despite having no links to the club. Ms Weiss highlighted a particularly horrific example that occurred sometime between 2011 and 2015, when he visited the house of a man who considered him to be a friend and mentor.
Regina Weiss said Reynolds sold himself so convincingly as an upstanding community member that some still have difficulty accepting the truth. The interstate officers reported what they'd overheard to a Tasmania Police divisional inspector, who reported it to the commander of the internal investigations unit.
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