Security guard leads a little girl from a playground in Sydney before exposing himself

The family of a three-year-old girl say they will ‘never be the same again’ after a sick  security guard led her away from a playground before exposing his penis to her.

Mohammed Al Bayati was captured on CCTV coercing the girl away from a playground at Direct Factory Outlet Homebush in west Sydney before leading her down a corridor.

The security guard held the young girl’s hand before they disappeared from cameras for 11 minutes. 

Al Bayati claimed he was helping the lost child find her mother, but was found guilty of exposing himself to her in a stairwell.

Judge Christopher Robison sentenced him to a maximum of four years in jail on Friday and said he detained the girl for his ‘sexual gratification’. 

In a victim impact statement, the girl’s parents said their ‘peaceful family life was destroyed and will never be the same again’. 

‘He took and detained the victim for his sexual gratification,’ Judge Robinson said in his judgement on Friday.

‘When one carefully views all the evidence, it is clear to me that he had a sexual interest in the victim.

‘I am mindful of the victim’s age as well as that of the offender, who would have been trusted to find her mother.’

The girl later told her parents that Al Bayati was ‘touching his needle’, though Crown prosecutor John Sfinas said it could not be established if the security guard was masturbating.

Judge Robinson added that Al Bayati prioritised ‘his own sexual interests over and above’ his duty to return the girl to her family.

Al Bayati – who is on a protection visa – was originally charged with indecently assaulting the little girl, however, a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the 2018 trial.

A second jury later found him guilty of indecent assault but he ended up being acquitted on appeal.

Al Bayati claimed he was helping the lost child find her mother, but was found guilty of exposing himself to her in a stairwell 

In a victim impact statement, the girl’s parents said their ‘peaceful family life was destroyed and will never be the same again’ 

During his third trial in July, Al Bayati was found guilty of two lesser charges of detaining a person to obtain an advantage and committing an act of indecency with a child.

He is already eligible for parole having served three years and seven months in custody.

However, once Al Bayati gets out of jail he faces a lifetime in detention because his protection visa has been cancelled.

The federal government won’t send him back to Iraq due to the risk of persecution.

Judge Robison said in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Friday that he took into account the 33-year-old sought refuge in Australia from war-torn Iraq, where he was held captive as a teenager and threatened with beheading, according to 9News.

However, Judge Robison said that in no way excused his behaviour.