Convicted child molester and former golf mentor Sean Lynch is hit with new child sex offences – just one year after his release from jail

By HARRISON CHRISTIAN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 07:25 BST, 17 May 2025 | Updated: 07:25 BST, 17 May 2025

Depraved golf coach Sean Lynch, who was jailed for sexually abusing a young girl, is now facing new child sex charges just one year after his release.

Lynch, 71, was once known as the ‘King of the Kids’ for his work coaching junior athletes, including former world No. 1 Jason Day.

But in his role as a mentor in Queensland, Lynch groomed and abused a gifted young girl, telling her it would help her performance on the green. 

Lynch kissed and touched the girl and made her perform vile sex acts on him, in what Crown prosecutor Chris Cook described as ‘abhorrent and depraved conduct… for his sick, selfish sexual gratification’. 

The offending in 2018 and 2019 left the young girl deeply traumatised and no longer able to play golf, despite her extraordinary talent. 

Lynch showed no remorse at his 2022 trial and pleaded not guilty to 11 charges.  He was eventually found guilty of seven. 

The former mentor was sentenced to three years in jail but only served 18 months, as the rest of the sentence was suspended for five years. 

Now, only a year after he was released, Lynch has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child between the ages of 14-16.

Depraved golf coach Sean Lynch, who was jailed for sexually abusing a young girl, is now facing new child sex charges just one year after his release (Lynch is pictured)

Lynch, 71, (left) was once known as the ‘King of the Kids’ for his work coaching junior athletes

They relate to alleged offending against a girl Lynch knew between 2017 and 2019 in the Murwillumbah area, north of Byron Bay. 

Lynch was arrested on Thursday after attending Tweed Heads Police Station.

He appeared in Tweed Heads Court later that day and was granted conditional bail after an unnamed person lodged a $10,000 surety.

The conditions included that he must surrender his Irish passport and not enter any point of departure from Australia, according to court documents.

He was also not to communicate with his alleged victim or her father, or to have any contact with children unless in the company of another adult.   

Lynch is due to appear again in Tweed Heads Court on July 18.  

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Convicted child molester and former golf mentor Sean Lynch is hit with new child sex offences – just one year after his release from jail

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