Man who broke into a Moreton Bay dump in jail for birth of his son
The 22-year-old man has never met his son who was born while he was in jail after committing a spree of crimes
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A man’s two month crime spree has caused him to miss the birth of his son.
John Joseph Cassidy pleaded guilty at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court to entering premises, receiving tainted property, fraudulently selling goods he did not own, riding in a car he knew was stolen, drug and weapons possession.
Cassidy has been in prison for the last four months during which he missed the birth of his son who he has never met.
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Over a two-month period Cassidy, 22, repeatedly received property he knew was stolen, sold hundreds of dollars’s worth of goods to pawn brokers and was caught on CCTV breaking into the Woodford tip.
The court heard Cassidy’s fingerprints were found in the passenger seat of a stolen vehicle and he was later found in possession of a stolen car key.
At two different dates he fraudulently sold more than $400 worth of stolen tools and fishing equipment to pawn brokers
The court heard Cassidy has a drug problem that started after he had to declare himself bankrupt when he was 18-years-old.
He was sentenced to 12 months prison, and granted immediate release on parole.