July 07, 2011 - Court Hearing Sworn Testimony

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Decade-Long Criminal Harassment and Cyberstalking Spree based on a LIE

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Decade-Long Criminal Harassment and Cyberstalking Spree based on a LIE

The defendant owes his target an apology. So do a lot of other people.

This audio recording is irrefutable proof that the 10-year-long criminal harassment and cyberstalking spree targeting an innocent Brisbane, Australia man was based on a lie. A fabrication. A "made-up" accusation.

It's mid-2009. Faced with the embarrassment of having made an outrageously untrue allegation about John Aster in relation to a child pornography ring, and with that allegation now making the rounds very publicly, Pete Geary decided that it would behoove him to double down rather than apologize and retract it. His honor as a biker was at stake, along with the harsh way that others might view him if it were established that he had accused an innocent man of such a horrendous crime as pedophilia and downloading child porn. And so double down he did. Geary, along with Jody Ashton, eventually reached a point in their ever-increasing unbelievable stories where they elaborated on Aster's alleged crime thus:

"Mr. Fake (Aster) arrested and charged for his involvement in Russian kiddie snuff videos!! Pleaded guilty and got a non-conviction for his testimony against the other guy." ~ Jody Ashton, 2019

According to this post, Aster had not been arrested and convicted of downloading 15,000 child porn images after all - rather, he had been found guilty of making Rusian snuff movies with children. Geary and Ashton, desperate to silence John Aster, had just driven themselves deeply into the realm of the unbelievable. For a start, there has never been a case of child snuff movies being proven to exist. In fact, they appear to be an urban legend. The FBI's chief researcher into child pornography (Supervisory Special Agent Kenneth V. Lanning) was quoted as saying: "In 20 years I have not seen any hard evidence that they have commercially produced sexually explicit films of murders for the gratification of other people. Simulated snuff movies using special effects are so realistic there is no point in risking life in jail."

Jody Ashton was clearly lying. Rather than expose John Aster, she has exposed herself instead. One would have to wonder why Jody, a Department Manager at Century 21 City Prestige Property (Brisbane) would be so hate-filled that she would take part in a ten-year campaign of terror against John Aster. Why indeed. The answer lies in a line from the 1697 play The Mourning Bride by William Congreve: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned". Jody Ashton, by her own admission, had been head over heels in love with John Aster. He was married, and he rejected her. For some women, that is all it takes. And Jody was one of those women.

An important part of proving something to be true is hard evidence, is it not? And that's the one thing Ashton and Geary have always lacked. Not that they haven't worked very hard over the years to use every trick of technology to produce it. Using regular programs like Photoshop and Windows Movie Maker, and after creating a whole host of fake profiles that appear to be in conversation with one another, Team (Aussie) Troll have enthusiastically produced all manner of fake reports about Aster's alleged activities. Jody herself in an off-the-wall crazy Facebook rant admits she has planted 'evidence' all over the internet to condemn John Aster. She was also proven to have deliberately created websites about Aster, with a view to soliciting money for Pete Geary's BUACA.

Reading the allegations made by this trolling tag team of misfits, one could be forgiven for thinking John Aster was some sort of criminal underworld boss with the luck of the coyote in the Road Runner series. Too fantastic to be true, the ongoing allegations that he had somehow managed to accumulate a substantial wealth in numerous internet scams are equally laughable. To the thinking man, it seems fairly obvious that someone who pleads guilty to making child snuff movies is not going to be able to walk free to wander the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia with impunity. Even if they do give evidence against a co-killer. And at some point, such a person would be scrutinized by the authorities sufficiently for his wealth to be discovered and independently investigated, leading to certain incarceration. Such an Underbelly story is just too incredible, and in the absence of hard evidence of convictions for fraud and child sex offenses, one can only conclude that all of the allegations made by this group against John Aster must be equally false.

This is where Team (Aussie) Troll let themselves down so badly. The claims they made were simply so outrageous they were not believable. Pete Geary's rants in desperation that thousands of parents had been victims of Aster, that he had drugged and raped a 17-year-old, that he had Brisbane Police assisting him in his pedophile ring (if anything it was Geary who was using his connections through friends to get information he was not entitled to from Police), and that he was spraying acid on the cars of his victims to silence them were just getting too much for the followers who had once believed Pete and his co-conspirators. They smelled a rat, and it was rotting. And so Team Troll began to lose credibility as fast as water runs out of a sieve. BUACA was leaking members just as quickly until it became all but defunct. All that is left of BUACA today is Pete, Jody, Geornette James (Wisper Firefly), Michelle Stewart, and a couple of groupie hangers-on.

Anyone that Geary and Ashton thought had attempted to help John Aster prove his innocence was drawn into their own nightmare of abuse and defamation on the internet. Fake profiles set up page after page on the internet trying to discredit, defame, shame, and silence Aster's support networks. Abuses were prolific and explicit. The more people who suffered the same fate as John Aster however, the more they came to realize that what had been said about him was likely to be similar to their own story - nothing more than the maniacal obsessive ranting of a few people who were desperate to hide the truth of their own conduct online over the years.

Realizing they were losing the battle and desperately needing a lot more help, Team (Aussie) Troll needed a new approach. So in 2009, they entered into a partnership with Canada's Stalk Show Host, John Hans Anderson, making Team Troll a truly international cyberstalking nightmare. John Anderson's input to the game has been nothing if not relentless. Over the years, in tandem with Team (Aussie) Troll, so-called 'dark lists' of Anderson's victims were made, and allegations of child abuse were leveled at them. Their employers were contacted, their local Police were notified that a "pedo ring" was operating in the neighborhood, and the victim's families and friends were targeted with misinformation and further abuse. In creating an exponentially increasing circle of victims, John Anderson, suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder and overusing medicinal marijuana, could not quit until he had 'exposed' every last pro-pedo (his term for anyone who questioned his authority or pointed out that he had no evidence against his victims). Anderson continued his cycle of cyber-terrorism for a decade until he was finally brought to justice by a team of his victims banding together to bring his behavior to the attention of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

By April 2010, Geary and Ashton were joined by another very experienced internet stalker, Melanie Coutts, AKA Annabelle Jones, Melanie Shambat, Melanie Smith, Anonymous, Melanie Hamilton (m.). Posing as a writer, Coutts helped to legitimize Team Troll's assertions about John Aster by producing 'independent' blogs reiterating their false allegations as she used them to strengthen her own self-serving arguments about Family Law Reform. Interestingly, although Melanie (Samantha) writes: "how the court allowed him to enter a plea bargain where he received no jail time" (the non-conviction theory), she does not provide any evidence of it in her post. Over the years this 'misinformation merry-go-round' has formed the basis of the 'illusion of truth effect' relied upon by Team Troll in their constant encouragement of others to "Google John Aster convicted pedophile to find the truth".

Whilst delving into his concerns that Pete Geary may have been using young and vulnerable victims of personal crime (and their mothers), John Aster came across the curious case of Michelle Stewart and her daughter Hayley. Hayley Stewart had apparently alleged that Pete Geary had sexually abused her, and the evidence certainly pointed to the fact that he had been inappropriately far too close to the girl who at the time was a minor. Michelle, having suffered through the loss of her son Nathan to suicide, was not coping. She had trusted Geary and left her daughter in his care to straighten the girl out. Instead, Geary ingratiated himself to the girl and became overly familiar with her - going so far as to touch her inappropriately and have himself photographed doing it. That photograph has become the subject of heated debate as to the battle for the truth waged on. Michelle, the girl's mother, has alternated between reporting Geary to Police for child abuse and siding with Geary to bring down Aster for refusing to stop retelling the story.

Bizarrely, while lashing out at Aster for allegedly posting information about her children on the internet, Michelle was originally the author of www.nathansjustice.com, setting up a Twitter account in her son's name to tell his story and to wage a six-year legal battle against the DHS and the Angliss Hospital where he was first treated for his fatal wound claiming negligence and failing in a duty of care. Unfortunately, the coroner had already noted that Michelle herself was in no small way the reason for his crushing despair. She was also the only person drawing attention to her daughter's story on the internet, having been the person responsible for it being there in the first place. As recently as late 2019, she was still directing attention towards the information on the internet relating to the discussions she had with Police about Geary's alleged pedophilic conduct with Hayley.

By the end of December 2010, the nature of the cyberattacks had become more frighteningly real than ever. John's attackers had posted his name, photograph, and addresses on the internet in a bid to have members of the self-proclaimed 'pedophile hunter' community locate him and deal out their own brand of 'justice'.

Pedophile hunting is not new to Australia, but it is a growing movement made up of people who are for the most part ill-informed 'followers' of strong personalities who manipulate others for personal gain or power. Many of the hunters, as is the nature of the behavior they exhibit, are mentally unstable or unwell. They tend to be unemployed, publicly housed, poorly educated, illiterate, and unable to see through the 'games' that their narcissistic leaders play. Peter Geary and Melanie Coutts were both leaders of their own circles, and they set about pointing the finger of false accusation at John Aster knowing only too well what could happen to him.

Given that Peter Geary had now been accused himself of inappropriate behavior with Michelle Stewart's daughter, it would be greatly beneficial to Geary if John Aster were to disappear and stop his online expose of Geary. Similarly, Melanie Coutts would be pleased that a major father's rights activist would be silenced. There was no doubt that Geary and Melanie were working together, and Michelle Stewart has confirmed this to be a fact in one of her recorded admissions to Aster.

In April 2011, the threats from Pete Geary and BUACA (Bikers United Against Child Abuse) took an extremely sinister turn. Geary arrived at John Aster's home and took a photograph of his vehicle parked outside the property, taking care not to actually enter the property itself. Geary then uploaded the image to the internet, along with a post making explicit threats to Aster:

"you are going to die ya ugly piece of shit"...

and alleging he intended to

"exterminate (sic) the pedophile who lives at [REDACTED ADDRESS] make another video creep because I hear they are going to break all your fulngers ['fingers'] as well as drill ya knee caps..."

Geary made it clear that he personally intended to ensure Aster’s death by whatever means possible. He set about taunting and intimidating Aster. Geary’s true violent nature emerged under pressure, and he could not hold back from exposing himself to be the man he’d tried to hide from the community while he played at being a kind and caring father figure to vulnerable children. A dangerously violent child abuser and rapist were let out of its cage to attack the one person who had collated enough information to expose him to the rest of the community.

Incredibly, in 2011, Michelle Stewart took Pete Geary to court and obtained an AVO (Apprehended Violence Order) against him for stalking her. During the hearing, under oath, Pete admits knowing that the story about John Aster being a pedophile is a lie.

Listen to Pete Geary's admission that the pedophile accusation was a lie: Pete Geary brought an application for a peace and good behavior order against Aster in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court in December 2011. His application was dismissed, and no order was made.

By June 2012, Team Troll had relentlessly pursued John Aster for two years with threats and visits to his home. It took its toll. John had a fulltime carer and was described as "emotionally unstable with evidence of severe psychological overlay." He was seeing a psychologist on a regular basis to deal with the harm caused by the vindictive and unwarranted actions of Team Troll. He was afraid to go out during the daytime. He felt constantly harassed and set upon and denied the opportunity to pursue the things of value to him.

In March 2013, Aster brought an application for a peace and good behavior order against Peter Geary in the Brisbane Magistrates Court. He, unfortunately, tried to present his case himself, and so again the application was dismissed with no order made.

Team Troll (international) claims to be a group of "men and women, parents, grandparents, and associated advocates." Posing as such, they at first glance have a misty appearance of legitimacy. However, it should not be forgotten that Pete Geary is male, a parent, a grandparent, and has previously posed as an advocate under the BUACA banner. Jody Ashton is female. Between as little as two people, they could represent the 'group' that they claim to be. More so if Michelle, Melanie, and John Anderson and his wife Catherine join them. They would still be a rag-tag bunch of less than a dozen people even with the hangers-on, but it has the effect of making them sound like a coherent organization. To an innocent man repeatedly accused over a ten year period of being a pedophile, the fear is real.

Team Troll has spent the last ten years deliberately and knowingly destroying John Aster's life. For a lie.

The video above closes the very last chapter of the story.

It's over.

The following file includes the ENTIRE HEARING from being sworn in to adjournment. The audio files are in OGG format. The last file in the archive contains the judge's verbal order against Geary.

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More info on this truly bizarre and unfathomable situation, please visit http://JohnAster.com.

Transcript

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Judge: Alright. So this kicked...really
kicked up the conflict, did it?

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Oh, absolutely your honor.
Yes. Well, your honor, I've only known

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Michelle Stewart, since late 2009 and what I've...
and what I've known of Michelle Stewart

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is that's all she does on Facebook is
attack everybody, not just me.

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Threatening to kill people, get people killed,
take them to court.

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Do this. Do anything to do with shutting someone up.

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Now she put her son's... Nathan's
information on the Internet.

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That's the proof here. That she did that.

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Now, I told her not to trust this guy.
Because -- Which Guy? --

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John Aster. Because he
came to my house, into my office and

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tried to explain to me who he was and
what he was doing.

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And as soon as I met the guy, I knew straight away he's
nothing but a sleazebag creep.

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So I rang Michelle said,. "Mate. You've got rocks in
your head! Why did you give him all your information?"

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She sent him everything.
So he was threatening to send that all over

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the world, okay? -- And what did she say
when you said that to her?

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She said "No, Pete, he's the
best man! Oh, you wouldn't believe it

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he's a solicitor. He's a barrister.
-- alright -- He's this. He's that."

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Keep your voice down -- Oh, sorry.
-- That's alright. Just down one level. Yep, go on --

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And I said, "No Michelle, I've met him --

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- Right. -

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-- and it would have been a week after that

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that she rang me, crying, she said,
"John Aster is a pedophile."

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"My police mate had just told me that
he downloaded 15,000 images of child porn"

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And then she broadcast that all over the Internet.

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- Right. -

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So of course, me helped... because when he
came to me, John Aster, Hayley was living

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with us at our place, so Hayley got to meet him.

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He realized that and so he started spreading...

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soon as Michelle realized
he was just a fake, then she

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did what she's doing to me, to him, all over
the internet. Posting pictures of him

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with little kids and doing this and doing that.

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Alright. Remember, you're not applying for the
intervention order. -- No, your honor. --

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It's Michelle that is -- That's Right -- She said - she said
you've used the Internet to say some things

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you shouldn't have said.
So that's what I'm primarily wanting

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-- Yes. Your honor. -- to address
your own behavior -- Your honor

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And so, not only did I cop... Sorry
I've copped it from John Aster. Not only me.

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Some of the best child abuse advocates in Australia
have copped it big time over this.

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- Right - Including professor Freda Briggs and
quite a few other dignitaries where the..

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The... the Flinders University South Australia
tried to stop John Aster from placing this negative

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crap on the Internet. -- Alright, But
let's move away from John Aster...

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Because I don't feel it's helping me evaluate...

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-- Your honor. I'm just trying to establish
that she brought John Aster

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into all of our lives. -- Right --
We asked her not to, Okay? -- Okay

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-- Alight, -- Now. - Okay -- Okay, so she was the

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one that told us all about what she did.
She started it all up and a year later

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she went on the internet said. "I made it all up."

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What did she say she'd made up?

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About John Aster being a pedophile.