Sex cult's final outrage

By Joe Hildebrand

FOLLOWERS of cult leader and accused paedophile Ken Dyers have outraged the families of his alleged victims by taking out newspaper advertisements in an attempt to clear the dead man's name.

Supporters of the 85-year-old "Kenja" founder - who shot himself last week while facing 22 counts of child sex assault and indecent assault - took the extraordinary step of placing advertisements in weekend newspapers declaring his innocence.

The full-page ads, which were run in The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, accused Dyers' two alleged victims of deliberately lying and behaving in an "appalling" fashion.

They also claimed police were out to get him to further their careers.

"The actions that both girls and fathers of the girls are attempting to hide in these latest allegations are appalling," the advertisement stated.

"It was Ken's final realisation that there are certain members of the police force who are career-orientated and are apparently less interested in the truth than in getting their man, regardless of facts or nature.

"The proof is overwhelming that the girl making the allegations (against Dyers) deliberately lied and manufactured these false allegations."

The father of one of the girls, who was just 12 years old when she was allegedly abused by Dyers, said the statement was a disgrace.

"To think that our daughters have stood up and been extremely brave and to see this slander being perpetrated by a group within the cult is sickening," he told The Daily Telegraph.

The man, who cannot be named without identifying his daughter, has written an open letter to the cult members, hitting back.

"We took this matter to the courts but Mr Dyers did not want to attend," the open letter reads.

"He knew his time was up. Mr Dyers acted in his own interests when he took his life."

It has also been claimed cult members used fake testimonials in the Sydney Morning Herald advertisements.

One of the most prominent signatories in the ad said yesterday he refused permission for his name to be used, but it was placed there anyway.

Dr Hoc Ku Huynh OAM headed one column of a list of supposed supporters of Dyers, even though he declined a request for his name to be used.