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A FORMER Brisbane music teacher yesterday found guilty of 34 child sex offences had previously been jailed for similar offences against students in the Northern Territory. The Brisbane District Court jury took just over five hours to convict the 54-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, of indecently dealing with a 13-year-old student, his brother and his own two infant children between 1981 and 1984. During the week-long trial, the court heard the music teacher manipulated the student, now a 36-year-old doctor, played on concerns about his lack of a father and being teased at school to build a relationship with him, and also ingratiated himself with the boy's single mother. The now-divorced teacher socialised with the boy's family, encouraged a father-son relationship, gave him extravagant presents, helped him build a sailing boat and took him on special trips to Sydney and Lake Cootharaba. The court heard the sexual abuse included sexually explicit conversations, touching and masturbation, and abuse against the man's own infant baby boy and young daughter. The 13-year-old student was also plied with alcohol and drugs during a sailing trip to Lake Cootharaba. The convicted pedophile stood expressionless in the dock, while two of his victims sitting in the back of the court cried and smiled as the guilty verdicts were read out. In making sentence submissions, Crown Prosecutor Sal Vasta said the man had left the Brisbane private school after other complaints had been made, and moved to the Northern Territory where he was convicted in 1994 of similar offences against six teenage boys. Mr Vasta said the offences included touching, masturbation, sodomy and tying a naked boy to a table and masturbating him in front of other students during a school sleepover. He was jailed for eight years. He said the current offences were "brazen, confident and conniving", the man had shown no remorse and must be categorised as one of the worst offenders of this type. Defence barrister John Fraser said his client had not re-offended in the eight years' since his release. Judge Julie Ryrie remanded the man in custody and adjourned sentencing until July. AAP (7-6-2005) Leanne Edmistone |
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