Dennis Ferguson (sex offender)

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Dennis Ferguson is an Australian child sex offender who in 1987 kidnapped three children from their home and raped them over a period of three days. Later, one of the children became suicidal and all required long-term counselling. He was convicted of kidnapping, sodomy, gross indecency, indecent dealing and carnal knowledge the next year. In 1989, the Brisbane Supreme Court sentenced Ferguson to 14 years in jail, saying that his chance of rehabilitation was 'nil'.

In 2003, Ferguson was released from jail, and eight months later was found to be living in Miles, Queensland, with a 17-year-old girl. The girl was removed, and Ferguson was also charged with having separately molested two girls, aged 4 and 5, since his release. He had also taken a job selling cleaning products to schools, and failed to inform police of his potential contact with children as required by law.

He rented a house in Murgon, in Brisbane's north, just one block from a child care centre. Protesters forced him to flee. He then sought refuge in Ipswich but was forced out again. The town of Narangba forced him out also, along with several other towns.