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FORMER children's television show host Ric Marshall has been sentenced to stay in his home for 6-½ years after being found guilty of child sex abuse.
Marshall, 79, of Eastwood in Adelaide, has rarely left his home for the past four years because of ill-health.
Marshall was not in the District Court in Adelaide today to hear his sentence for buggery and procuring an act of buggery with a boy aged about 12 between September, 1973, and December, 1974.
The court was told Marshall suffered from a range of serious health problems, including dementia and Parkinson's disease.
Judge Dean Clayton said he would have sentenced Marshall to the same period in jail but after finding Marshall mentally unfit to face trial last year, Judge Clayton ordered he be placed "on licence" for the same amount of time.
Judge Clayton said if Marshall was taken into custody, it would be as a permanent, high-care patient in an institution.
"Given that he is housebound, the practical effect will be the same and the community will be spared the cost of the hospitalisation if he remains in his own home," the judge said.
Marshall was found guilty of buggery after a judge-alone trial in front of Judge Clayton.
He found Marshall not guilty of two counts of indecent assault and another three of buggery.
The Daily Telegraph (18-12-2007)
Gavin Lower
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22943769-5001028,00.html