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That paedophile water polo coach Dean Carelse keeps slipping through the cracks.

The former Grey High School teacher and well-known sports coach was arrested in March 2021 after police raided his home in Queensland, Australia. The 43-year-old was arrested and charged with the possession and distribution of child exploitation material, covertly filming boys in his care in their swimmers on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

Carelse was promptly suspended from his coaching position at Water Polo Queensland and deported after pleading guilty to almost 20 charges, including 14 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16.

It was reported at the time that Carelse had more than 2,000 pictures of child exploitation pictures on his phone, some of the student’s genitals in their togs. It’s also alleged that he created an Instagram account under a fake name, ‘Taylor Brooke’, which he used to groom children into doing sexual acts with him.

In November 2022, the sicko reportedly returned to South Africa after being deported from Australia and had no restrictions on his movements, allowing him to sneak off to the UK around last year.

That’s when the ABC found him working as a children’s lifeguard at a family water park in the UK. The ABC investigation had tracked the coach to the Butlin’s resort at Minehead in England’s south-west earlier this year, where he had passed a background check to work with children again.

A Butlin’s spokesperson said Carelse had “falsified” his information on his application and a mandatory screening check — which searches only for UK convictions — had come back clear.

He worked as a children’s lifeguard at Butlin’s for 10 months until he was fired after the ABC’s report. It is understood that Carelse was deported to South Africa in May.

“Foreign nationals who commit crimes here in the UK will face the full force of the law, including deportation at the earliest opportunity for those eligible,” a UK Home Office spokesperson said.

Except Dean doesn’t yet face any charges here in South Africa, and could very easily sneak off to commit his atrocious child abuse acts somewhere else.

He is, however, under investigation here in South Africa, where he is believed to have been in an alleged paedophile ring in the country’s elite schools.

The investigation codenamed Operation Nemo, is also looking at the suicide of a student at a South African boarding school in 2018 who was allegedly abused by his water polo coach, who himself was a former student of Carelse.

Carelse was reportedly fired from a boys’ boarding school shortly before coming to Australia in the late 2010s and then was arrested on the Sunshine Coast in early 2021 after a raid on his Mooloolaba home found more than 2,000 child exploitation images.

Investigators found material suggesting that offences were committed both in Australia and South Africa, according to documents obtained by the ABC.

Chillingly, Australian investigators identified 62 possible South African victims, most of them ex-students, according to South African police.

Yet, he faces no charges here.

The documents obtained by ABC show Carelse categorised photos and conversations with his victims by their names.

“He grooms his victims through gifting, praise, desensitisation and touch,” said a submission, filed by the investigating officer on July 2, 2021 — the day of Carelse’s second arrest.

“The forensic download of his phone provides evidence and demonstrates manipulation that the defendant uses to engage victim children.

The submission said police believed “the defendant is building relationships with children in Queensland”, that they feared would eventually allow him to “commit contact offences.”

They also described Carelse as having a “strong desire” to offend against children.

“Police suspect that the defendant will offend against a child should he have access. The defendant has held a position of trust and authority as a [redacted] he has the ability to communicate with children and his actions show he has a strong desire to offend against them,” the investigating officer wrote.

The SA investigation needs to go full speed ahead before he is left to ruin the lives of more young boys.

[source:abcnews]