3 Year Old Raped in Canberra Library
A Canberra, Australia, serial child molester has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail for the public rape of a three-year-old girl and the racially motivated bashing of his neighbour.
In September, Shane Williams, 40, from Campbell, was making his way to a police station for his annual sex offender check-in when he decided to stop at the Belconnen Library to use the toilets.
He was browsing the books inside when a three-year-old girl wandered over to him and said hello. He then sexually assaulted her.
The child's mother was just metres away using a computer and did not initially notice that her daughter had wandered off.
She screamed when she spotted the toddler nearby in the arms of a crouching Williams.
Today in the ACT Supreme Court, prosecutor Sara Gul described the attack as despicable.
"It's clear that he is a significant danger to the community," Ms Gul said, before detailing Williams' extensive history of sexual assaults against young children stretching back more than two decades.
"He really is what can only be described as a chronic child molester." Why was he still walking around?
Williams' lawyer James Sabharwal agreed the attack was concerning and offered his client's only excuse that he was both drunk and high on drugs at the time.
"The only saving grace I can put to your honour is that the little girl was not required to give evidence," Mr Sabharwal said.
Chief Justice Helen Murrell said it was difficult to know if the victim would suffer any future impacts from the assault.
"She was too young to understand concepts such as stranger danger," Ms Murrell said.
"But one would have expected in those circumstances that their daughter would have been safe."
Lord, please put it in the hearts of judges to get chronic sex offender off the streets permanently.
Foster Father Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse
Prosecutors in Perth, Australia, have called for a substantial jail term to be imposed on a former youth worker and foster carer who sexually abused three boys who were in his care.
Roderick Alexander Finch, 55, pleaded guilty to more than 20 charges of child sex abuse, dating back to the early 1990s.
The District Court was told Finch was the foster carer for two of the boys, whom he repeatedly sexually assaulted.
The third victim was a juvenile offender who was abused while doing community work at a camp in Western Australia.
Finch has been remanded in custody until he is sentenced next week.
Outside the court, victim Rob McAuley said he does not accept Finch's claims he is remorseful.
"I think about this almost every day and when he gets sentenced, then I might, just might, be able to forget it," he said.
"But until then, and he'll never apologise, so I'm not accepting that not to my face anyway."
He says he was not aware until recently of the other victims.
A Canberra, Australia, serial child molester has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail for the public rape of a three-year-old girl and the racially motivated bashing of his neighbour.
In September, Shane Williams, 40, from Campbell, was making his way to a police station for his annual sex offender check-in when he decided to stop at the Belconnen Library to use the toilets.
He was browsing the books inside when a three-year-old girl wandered over to him and said hello. He then sexually assaulted her.
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| Police question witnesses at Belconnen Library |
She screamed when she spotted the toddler nearby in the arms of a crouching Williams.
Today in the ACT Supreme Court, prosecutor Sara Gul described the attack as despicable.
"It's clear that he is a significant danger to the community," Ms Gul said, before detailing Williams' extensive history of sexual assaults against young children stretching back more than two decades.
"He really is what can only be described as a chronic child molester." Why was he still walking around?
Williams' lawyer James Sabharwal agreed the attack was concerning and offered his client's only excuse that he was both drunk and high on drugs at the time.
"The only saving grace I can put to your honour is that the little girl was not required to give evidence," Mr Sabharwal said.
Chief Justice Helen Murrell said it was difficult to know if the victim would suffer any future impacts from the assault.
"She was too young to understand concepts such as stranger danger," Ms Murrell said.
"But one would have expected in those circumstances that their daughter would have been safe."
Lord, please put it in the hearts of judges to get chronic sex offender off the streets permanently.
Foster Father Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse
Prosecutors in Perth, Australia, have called for a substantial jail term to be imposed on a former youth worker and foster carer who sexually abused three boys who were in his care.
Roderick Alexander Finch, 55, pleaded guilty to more than 20 charges of child sex abuse, dating back to the early 1990s.
The District Court was told Finch was the foster carer for two of the boys, whom he repeatedly sexually assaulted.
The third victim was a juvenile offender who was abused while doing community work at a camp in Western Australia.
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| Child sex abuse survivor Robert McAuley |
Outside the court, victim Rob McAuley said he does not accept Finch's claims he is remorseful.
"I think about this almost every day and when he gets sentenced, then I might, just might, be able to forget it," he said.
"But until then, and he'll never apologise, so I'm not accepting that not to my face anyway."
He says he was not aware until recently of the other victims.
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