Asif Hossain, Goodwin Aged Care Service: Sex offender to keep job in Canberra

A man who carried out a sex attack which left a woman now ‘sleeping with a cricket bat under her bed’ will likely keep his job at an aged care home because he is “respected by his colleagues”.

Asif Hossain, 33, was found guilty of indecency but was not convicted, in part, because being a convicted sex offender would see him lose his job at a Canberra aged care facility. Picture: Instsgram

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A ‘respected’ sex offender who works at a Canberra aged care facility will likely keep his job after a magistrate spared him a conviction.

Asif Hossain, 33, was on Tuesday handed a six-month good behaviour order, without conviction, after being found guilty of three counts of committing an act of indecency without consent.

Special Magistrate Margaret Hunter found a “remorseless” Hossain guilty of the charges earlier this year, finding he barged in on a woman and began forcefully hugging her from behind, kissing her neck and rubbing his groin against her.

Asif Hossain, pictured in happier times, has found guilty of three acts of indecency.

The court heard Asif Hossain, is ‘respected’ among his colleagues at Goodwin Aged Care Services. Pictures: Instagram

He then pinned the woman down and forcibly kissed her, leaving her in fear she would be raped.

At a hearing, the court heard Hossain’s victim said he told her he would only stop his attack “if the police get involved or she stabbed him with a knife”.

In a victim impact statement read in court on Tuesday, the woman said she now sleeps with a cricket bat under her bed to help her feel safe.

“My body has ongoing impacts of experiencing involuntary shaking triggered by certain social settings,” the woman said.

She described Hossain as “a man who does not know that a ‘no’ is a ‘no’, it is not a ‘maybe’ and it is never, ever, a ‘yes’.”

Hossain’s legal team argued he would lose his career in aged care if he was convicted, because government-approved providers are banned from employing convicted sex offenders.

Ms Hunter said Hossain was a valued and longstanding employee of Goodwin Aged Care Service, and was well regarded by his colleagues.

She said other than the sex attack, Hossain was a “person of otherwise good character” with no criminal record.

Ms Hunter said Hossain did not consider the woman’s feelings and had not shown any remorse but said his sex attack was only in the “low to mid range” of offending.

She warned Hossain that if he committed any more crimes in the next six months he would be brought back to court.

“I must say that, as the victim said … no means no, it never means yes.”