A gay couple who ran an international paedophile ring involving a son they illegally bought from Russia reportedly planned to buy a second child to exploit.
Mark Newton, 46, and Peter Truong, 40, from Cairns, on Queensland’s coast, sexually abused their adopted Russian son and trafficked him to other paedophiles around the world from the age of one until six.
However, new claims have emerged the couple planned to adopt a second child by paying a Malaysian surrogate $100,000,The Courier Mail reported.
Mark Newton, 46, (right) and Peter Truong, 40, (left) from Cairns, on Queensland’s coast, sexually abused their adopted son and trafficked him to other paedophiles around the world from the age of one until six
The publication claimed the plan was exposed in Skype and photo sharing service Flickr, through which they tried to sell their son to other paedophiles for sex.
Newton is serving 40 years in a US prison and Truong is serving 30 in a US prison after they were arrested in 2012 for sexually abusing their son and trafficking him for sex in an international paedophile ring.
Judge Sarah Evans Barker said she didn’t want to put the trial by a jury because she felt the evidence was too heinous for people to witness.
Truong was given a reduced sentence because he cooperated with the authorities.
The pair were found guilty of offering the boy for sex to at least eight men in the US, France and Germany.
Newton is serving 40 years in a US prison and Truong is serving 30 in a US prison after they were arrested in 2012 for sexually abusing their son and trafficking him for sex in an international paedophile ring
Truong (pictured with his adopted son) was given a reduced sentence because he cooperated with the authorities
When Newton (pictured with his young son) was sentenced in the US, police told the court the boy was adopted in 2005 for the sole purpose of sexual gratification and sex trafficking
Newton and Truong were living in California when the boy, then six, was taken away from them and they were arrested.
When Newton was sentenced in the US, police told the court the boy was adopted in 2005 for the sole purpose of sexual gratification and sex trafficking.
Police also told the court the two men uploaded disturbing images and videos of the abuse to international paedophilia ring ‘Boy Lovers Network’.
They reportedly urged paedophiles to travel to Russia where they could pay to rape the young boy.
The paedophile ring, ‘Boy Lovers Network’, had 70,000 members worldwide before it was the subject of international raids that resulted in the arrests of 670 men.
They reportedly urged paedophiles to travel to Russia where they could pay to rape the young boy (pictured)
The house (pictured) in Cairns, Queensland, where the gay couple lived with their young son