This is pretty unsettling.
“Who wants to suck my d*ck?” former prison officer Conan Zamolo tells the sleeping teenage inmates in the video. “Which one of you boys wanna suck my d*ck?”
Zamolo filmed himself tormenting several male youths then uploaded the footage to Snapchat because… homophobic bullying is funny? Now he’s on trial for misconduct on the job.
Zamolo is, er, was an officer at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, a maximum security juvenile detention center in the Northern Territory, Australia, located in Berrimah, east of Darwin. He was canned back in 2014 after being charged with possession of steroids. During the investigation, police uncovered several videos saved on Zamolo’s phone of himself sexually harassing several different teenage inmates.
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In addition to telling the boys to perform oral sex on him, Zamolo filmed himself demanding a kid eat bird feces. “Go, go, go! Eat it! Eat that little bit of sh*t,” he ordered.
In another video, Zamolo sneaks up on a boy using a urinal. He films the youth urinating for a moment before the screen goes black and Zamolo can be heard saying, “Oi! What are you doing you little gay dog?”
In court last week, Zamolo said the harassment was all a “joke.”
“Did it occur to you that any of the boys might not have found it funny at all, but might have felt compelled to go along with it?” prosector Peter Callaghan asked.
To which, Zomolo replied, “I had a good relationship with the kids. That’s how they talk to each other … I wouldn’t have done it if I thought that they would’ve been offended by it. Obviously, I knew them quite well.”
The videos, however, suggest otherwise.
“Come suck my dick you little c*nt!” Zomolo can be heard yelling at a teen. The boy is heard replying, “F*ck off, you prick. Motherf*ck*r!”
When asked specifically about filming the boy using the bathroom, Zomolo said he went to check on the kid because he was “taking too long” and didn’t realize his camera was on.
“It was a new watch that I was playing with, that I’d been playing with all day,” he testified. “I can’t even tell you if I knew it was recording or not. I got no idea. I didn’t even know it was on my phone.”
“Mr Zamolo, what was it about Don Dale that made you think it was OK to let this happen?” Callaghan asked.
Zomolo shrugged and said, “I don’t know, it was just goofing around and that kind of thing happened a lot. They’d look for things to do to pass the time. … I can see now that it was inappropriate.”
The trial continues.
h/t: ABC Australia
honeybear
Click Bait. Seriously this is nothing but total google alert generated click bait.
natekerchel
He calls it a joke? Inappropriate is not the word – it is disgusting and abusive. Normally I always say prison should only be for very serious violent crimes – but in this case I amend that to ‘and scumbags who abuse vulnerable children in their care’. Revolting creature.
Bob LaBlah
Wow! Look what I stumbled across in a general google search. It seems there is ZERO tolerance for any back talk from juveniles in the Northern Territories down there.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/young-boy-victimised-in-youth-detention-in-northern-territory/7657708
He BGB
This is not gay related but pedophilia.
crowebobby
It’s disgusting criminal behavior and they should throw the book at him, but if they are teenagers, it’s not “pedophilia.” Stop misusing this word.
iggy6666
Crowe Bobby – Pedophile is quite fitting for a grown man attracted to teenagers…. and from comments you’ve written in the past, it’s a slight cause for concern.
Josh in OR
Try telling that to anyone and prepare for the accusations pedophilia to fly at you. Never mind that calling a man like this a pedophile is no more true than saying that he is a turnip is true…despite how much he looks like one.
‘Ephebophile’ is the correct term for someone who is sexually attracted to ‘youth’, AKA adolescents.
‘Pedophile’ is the correct term for someone who is sexually attracted to ‘children’, AKA prepubescents.
Both are troublesome in terms of consent, to say the LEAST, but let’s not pretend that they are the same thing at all…and NEITHER is really ‘gay interest’…just sad.
Josh in OR
Just saying. Language is already a fickle thing. Let’s not throw out ALL rational thought about words meaning things…
captainburrito
I love how he has an excuse for everything. Not so tough when he gets caught…
ChrisK
He seems nice.
Jack Meoff
Guys this is not just google alert click baiting it is serious stuff. There has been a Royal Commission going on for almost a year looking into the mistreatment of youths housed in correctional facilities in the NT. It is a shameful disgrace that this has been allowed to happen in our country but unfortunately the NT has a small population and is geographically a long way away from all major cities so things have been flying under the radar. The government are working to investigate all charges and put measures in place to ensure this never happens again. Check out this Wiki link to learn more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_the_Protection_and_Detention_of_Children_in_the_Northern_Territory
Evji108
What a gross human being. He is clearly tormenting his charges, but unfortunately that is sort of what you would expect at a teen detention center. These places attract abusive people as a place to be employed. The most disturbing thing is that he clearly felt this kind of behavior was just fine and totally acceptable to post to his Snapchat friends.