"He has admitted to not only abusing these children, but filming that abuse against these innocent and vulnerable children.”
It’s gonna be a tough Christmas for WSL surfer and surf coach Connor Lyons after he was arrested for the second time in a week and imprisoned, again, on child sex abuse charges.
Lyons, twenty-six, was first arrested on Sunday and charged with 12 counts of indecent treatment of two kids over a fourteen-month period on both the Sunny and Gold Coasts. Despite police citing Lyons as posing an unacceptable risk to the community, he was granted bail with strict conditions
Yeah, well.
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The cops scooped Lyons up on Wednesday and charged him with another fourteen offences including making child exploitation material, grooming, and damaging evidence with intent.
Cops claim that after Lyons got bail, he accessed and deleted child exploitation material from a device at his Mum’s house on the Sunshine Coast.
They also say he admitted deleting the material and that he was involved in other crimes.
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Lyons now carries 29 charges linked to four alleged child victims, with the heaviest charge carrying a possible 20-year sentence.
Lyons’ lawyer Bradford Hill argued for bail for a second time and said that tough conditions could keep the risk he poses to the community at a manageable level.
Hill emphasised that his client needed “treatment” which would be tougher to get while in jail.
“It would benefit him to start some kind of treatment before sentencing … while on bail,” Hill said.
Police prosecutor Tegan Smith told the court Lyons confessed to looking at child pornography online for over ten years and that he first messed with kids back in 2018.
Smith said Lyons posed a “major risk to children. It doesn’t matter where he lives … he admits he can’t stop this behavior. The bail conditions to stay away from kids don’t do anything to lessen the risks of his sexual misconduct and predatory actions. He’s admitted not just to abusing these kids, but to filming that abuse of these innocent, vulnerable children…
“He’s confessed to watching that footage again and again, getting off on it … and then, after being given bail, he went and destroyed that evidence of the videos.”
Magistrate Rodney Madsen told Lyons, “there’s absolutely no way you’re getting bail. There’s probably nothing any magistrate could do to make you less of a risk to kids.The only way to keep the community safe from you is to keep you locked up.”
The case was postponed until March next year.
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Get a rope.
The fuck is up with this cunts teeth? Won’t have many left soon after the boys punch em down his throat and he becomes a walking glory hole in gen pop. Save the court costs and trauma inducing evidence giving for the victims, he confessed. Max term, eat shit peado.
One thing I think that really sticks out with the benefit of hindsight is that the coach clearly believes that he is in the same group or cohort as the kids he’s coaching. In one of his instagram videos he talks about all the friendships kids can make by going to one of his camps, but it’s almost like he’s advertising that he could be your kids’ friend too.
I’m well past this point, but sometime between your early 20’s and your mid to late 30’s there’s a point you hit where kids see you as closer to their parents than them. I think a coach, youth pastor, teacher, etc. always needs to live in the adult/child space. The kids should believe that you’re going to narc them out to their parents.
Mason Ho just said the Eddie is a green light but he’s such a stoner, who knows
I never trust people with teeth like that.
>Lyons confessed
Is this as dumb a move in Australia as it would be in the US?
Unfortunately I believe surf coaching/ grooming / abusing is a massive nightmare .
Did any parents do the basic due diligence and ask to see a blue card( Qld working with children check)?
it’s long been rumours about some surf coaches.
Perhaps better called a possible “ network “
It wasn’t necessarily the surf coaches when I was a grom. But there were definitely some weirdos that in hindsight did not have good intentions. I think the education is better now and kids know the red flags.
The only warning we got was other adults or older kids making quiet pedo jokes about certain people.
Due diligence? A unconvicted and active Pedo could get a blue card.
Is it still real important to remember Connor Lyons is innocent until, and if, found guilty,Derek?
He has since confessed, so no.
You’re aware of the timeline?
Sorry no expert on the Rock spiders finer details.
Do you think it’s real important to remember rock spiders are presumed innocent?
Personally not really, but you’re smart enough to know why Derek would say that.
It is indeed an oddly placed ‘presumption of innocence’ disclaimer, in a surf tabloid of all places.
Well, it looks like Dez deleted that disclaimer. I really wish this site would track the edits made to the sharticles just like it tracks any edits we make to our comments.
It’s still there.
Well, fuck. I guess I am losing my mind more than I thought as I can’t see it. Edit: just realized it was in the past sharticle. Oops.
He’s in for a wonderful holiday season, karma is a bitch
Oh he’s gonna definitely gonna get some “treatment” in jail. Real special treatment. That’s pretty fucked up that the max sentence is 20 years.
Could this be the beginning of the end of surf schools ?
Fingers crossed…
I think we have all known for a long time that things like this were always just lurking beneath the surface. Time to let the dominoes fall where they may.
Convicts gonna convict
Con Turrem.
Death to Nonces…..Simple as that
The police raided his home and found 1000 bars of sex wax
Ruining the good work, name and reputation of surf coaches. Cunt.
If you brag about being able to watch underage girls undress in the U. S. you can become president.
Not to mention, referring to your own daughter as a “piece of ass” –
“Donald Trump told radio host Howard Stern in 2004 that it was okay for the shock jock to refer to his daughter Ivanka Trump as “a piece of ass.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-ivanka-piece-of-ass-howard-stern-229376
Duh! Bonespur wanting to do his own daughter has been common knowledge for a decade plus. Republican Christian Family Values ! But as long as our taxes get lowered and all the immigrants taking all the good surf industry jobs get deported, just ignore the creepy pedophile and incest tendencies. I’m sure Bethany Hamilton and Bret Simpson agree.
Oddly, my taxes went up last time. Guessing will be the same. Pretty sure cunt hates me (working class construction dude). Poli tricks.
Whatever tho, better than being a pedo.
Or rapist.
Just costs extra for being a good human , stateside.
Ohhhhh, here we go.
JSC with TDS can’t read or look at anything without seeing TRUMP.
Have your brain checked mate, because you are totally fucked in the head.
For real. Every comment from this cunt is zero to political.
Well in all fairness, he’s vice president this go round. As it stands the chain of command is this:
President Musk
Vice President Trump
That hillbilly guy
Instead of downvoting just reply with a comment stating your allegiance to Team Pedophile. For instance I’m on team Rams, Dodgers, Trailblazers and Klopp era Liverpool.
What a horrendous cunt.
hopefully that Melanoma on his left shoulder will provide a slow and painful death.
@withconvict
Has he the atypical rock spider stance whilst suurfing
I don’t know
That selfie on the beach is fucking menacing.