A “brazen” serial intercourse offender has been jailed for conning a retail employee into rubbing oil on his penis on the pretence of treating his pretend medical situation.
Stephen John Jones appeared in courtroom on Wednesday to face his destiny after he pleaded responsible to 3 counts of inciting one other to do sexual act with out consent, finishing up sexual act with one other with out consent, and deliberately recording intimate picture with out consent.
The courtroom heard the 69-year-old focused three ladies at their workplaces in Sydney earlier than sexually assaulting them.
The courtroom paperwork reveal the harrowing particulars of one of many foul assaults, which occurred in Sydney’s west final 12 months.
On November 26, Jones hobbled right into a retailer in western Sydney with crutches after claiming a office accident left him struggling to stroll.
He instructed a retailer worker he had {a partially} severed penis and little feeling in his genitals because of the accident.
Jones offered the girl with a fraudulent physician’s certificates which claimed he suffered from painful spontaneous erections.
She helped him strive on some shorts earlier than he started complaining that his penis harm.
He requested the girl to rub some grapeseed oil on his groin to ease the ache, which was the therapy really helpful within the pretend docs observe.
The information state the girl initially refused however then reluctantly agreed to therapeutic massage the oil into his internal thighs and pelvis to alleviate the aged man’s discomfort.
Unsatisfied with the intimacy, Jones then requested the retail employee to rub the oil into his penis and testicles.
The courtroom paperwork state the girl was “incredibly uncomfortable” however agreed to assist ease his ache, believing Jones’ lie that he had little feeling in his genitals.
After round 20 minutes, the younger retailer worker stopped touching Jones and seen he had been filming her along with his telephone.
She instructed him she was calling the police and he snatched his garments and ran out of the shop with none assist from his crutches.
The 69-year-old was arrested on December 2 and police later found a bottle of Viagra tablets, a pretend docs observe and a bottle of grapeseed oil in his automobile.
Court paperwork reveal he’s a serial intercourse pest with greater than a dozen convictions for sexual offences in two states.
Police labelled Jones an “extreme risk to the community”.
“The accused is a brazen, recidivist sex offender whose offending has become more frequent and serious in nature,” police state within the courtroom paperwork.
Jones, who declined authorized illustration as a way to signify himself, instructed the courtroom his final sexual offence came about 20 years in the past.
He blamed the offences on “psychological muscle memory” and mentioned he “never stopped to think about it” or the impact it might have on his victims.
“I don’t have sexual urges,” the 69-year-old claimed in courtroom.
He instructed the courtroom he recognised that he had possible traumatised the ladies by way of his actions.
“I am genuinely sorry that I put the victims through that,” he mentioned, and denied saying so as a result of he was in jail.
The police prosecutor argued Jones displayed a whole lack of perception into his offending.
He declared the sexual assaults have been “planned and targeted”.
“(During the western Sydney attack) he canvassed and scoped out the store for that offence before leaving and returning with some crutches to go along with his story,” he mentioned.
“The harm done to the victims is substantial.”
The courtroom heard the 69-year-old was on bail on the time of three of the offences.
Magistrate Alison Viney agreed the offences have been premeditated and mentioned Jones knew what he was doing.
“You know what you did was wrong but that you found yourself effectively unable to stop yourself, that it was a compulsion to some degree,” she instructed the intercourse pest.
The Justice of the Peace slammed Jones for attacking the ladies of their workplaces, the place they might count on to be protected and revered.
“Often they were environments where there was only the singular female available, and in that way they were targeted,” she mentioned.
“Each of the complainants talks about being violated and upset and feeling sick … I can understand their disgust.”
Magistrate Viney sentenced Jones to 14-months in jail, with a non-parole interval of eight months.
With time served, he will likely be eligible for launch on August 1, 2023.
