A Hervey Bay child rapist has been resentenced for breaching his reporting conditions

A child rapist who remarried soon after being released from prison failed to report contact with a teenage girl during a sleepover at his home to police.

The Hervey Bay man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had previously been convicted of two counts of rape and indecent treatment of a child, faced court on two counts of breaching his reporting conditions.

A convicted child rapist, who remarried days after leaving jail, has been resentenced after he failed to report contact with his stepdaughter’s friend who sometimes slept over.

The Hervey Bay man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been previously convicted of two counts of rape and indecent treatment of a child, and faced court this week on two counts of breaching his reporting conditions.

He pleaded guilty to both charges in Hervey Bay Magistrates Court.

The court heard the initial offences involved two incidents, one in which he kissed the 15-year-old victim and then digitally penetrated her while saying he wanted to have sex with her and a second incident in which he kissed her in a car and digitally penetrated her.

During that incident he touched her breast and provided her with a condom, the court was told.

He was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended after seven months.

The man was released from jail in August last year, and remarried soon after.

His new wife had children, including a 15-year-old daughter, the court heard, and a family safety plan had been provided by child protective services which stated he was not to be left alone with the children.

The man also had to report any contact he had with other children to police.

But the court heard he had failed to do so when his stepdaughter had a friend stay over multiple times.

There was no suggestion anything untoward had happened on those occasions, the court was told.

In another incident, other children were invited to a birthday party and this contact was also not reported to police.

Again, nothing untoward was alleged to have happened.

Judge David Reid said the man had to understand the importance of his reporting conditions.

He was working as a truck driver now, the court heard, and had the support of both his new wife and his former wife in the courtroom.

The operational period of the suspended prison sentence was extended by 12 months.