World - Facing Dennis Ferguson
LIZ JACKSON, REPORTER: On February the 25th back in 1958, the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald featured this sweet photo. The Queen Mother speaking to a 10 year old boy from the Wahroonga School for the Blind. He is presenting her with a posy.Fifty years later that boy has become Australia’s most notorious paedophile. His friends are few. When he walks the Sydney streets he leaves on his full face helmet. Few criminal faces would be more easily recognised and no name is more widely reviled.His last conviction for child abuse was a heinous offence - the protracted sexual abuse of two boys and a girl, aged six, seven and eight. The offence was committed 22 years ago.The offender’s name is Dennis Ferguson.