Sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
"8.130 ECPat Australia believed that while the
Australian child sex tourism legislation was only part of the solution, the
mobility of predatory paedophiles and child molesters who travel interstate or
overseas allowed their previous offences to go undetected because of the
inadequate transferral of information to relevant agencies. They suggested
the creation of the national data base on convicted child molesters to help
alleviate some of these problems. However, where an Australian citizen is
arrested by the local authorities in other countries and the Australian Federal
Police or Interpol agencies are not involved, the offender can return to
Australia where there is no record of the offence or subsequent
monitoring."
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