Four girls are left with lifetime of pain after they were molested and abuser sentence of 14 months

Four girls, aged 10, are molested by a serial sexual abuser during horror sleepovers at paedophile’s house – but he’ll walk free in just over a year

  • Four young girls struggling to cope after being abused by their friend’s father 
  • The girls, now aged 11, are having nightmares and not speaking say mothers 
  • The abuser, 61, was sentenced to 14 months in Southport District Court 
  • The girl’s mothers said they blamed themselves for what happened to them 

Four young girls are struggling with nightmares and refusing to speak after being assaulted by a serial sexual abuser. 

The girls, now aged 11, stayed at the sex offender’s house between February 17 and October 29 last year because they were friends of his daughter.

Their friend’s father, a 61-year-old horse riding instructor, touched the girls’ buttocks, kissed them all on the lips and made one perform an act with a sex toy when the girls were aged 10.  

The man pleaded guilty in the Southport District Court to 12 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12. 

Four young girls are struggling with nightmares and refusing to speak after being assaulted by a serial sexual abuser 

The girl’s mothers reacted in shock when the man, who cannot be identified to protect the girls, was sentenced to just three-and-a-half years suspended after 14 months on Wednesday.  

‘It’s not fair – they get life and he gets 14 months,’ one of the mothers said outside court, according to The Gold Coast Bulletin. 

‘That’s pretty much a month for each charge. That’s not enough,’ she said. 

‘Who knows what is going to happen in the future and how it will affect them,’ the mother of a victim said. 

The court heard one of the girl’s would scream at her mother if the subject was brought up. 

One of the other girls suffered night terrors and was withdrawn, while yet another girl refused to speak about the subject as it made her ‘feel disgusting’. 

In 2015, a Gold Coast jury convicted the man of inappropriately touching a young girl who was getting horse riding lessons then, while on bail, breaching his bail conditions by sending her sister 40 emails. 

The man was also ordered to be placed on probation for three years when released and join a sexual offender rehabilitation program. 

The man was sentenced to just 14 months in Southport District Court angering the girl's mothers

The man was sentenced to just 14 months in Southport District Court angering the girl’s mothers 

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