Friday 29 February 2008

Sex attack in plain view: paedophile jailed

A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years' jail for indecently assaulting two children, one of whom he attacked in plain view of other children.

Gustofohan Harris assaulted the girls, aged 11 and five, in separate incidents in 2005 and 2006.

In the first attack, the 11-year-old girl was grabbed by Harris while walking home from Clovelly Beach in eastern Sydney.

In the second incident, Harris sexually assaulted the five-year-old girl in plain view of other young children as she left her primary school in Annandale to retrieve a lost ball.

The sentencing judge described the second attack as particularly serious because Harris used the lost ball to lure the girl away from the school.

Harris's sentence included several charges of break-and-enter.

He will be eligible for parole in four-and-a-half years.

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