Paedophile Roy Glasheen jailed for abusing three victims
A Sydney paedophile — who preyed on three children — managed to hide his abuse for years until the mothers of his victims began asking questions. Now he has been sentenced.
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A vile paedophile who preyed on three children left in his care between 2007 and 2017 will spend a minimum of four years in jail.
Roy Ernest Glasheen, 70, of Randwick, was sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court on Friday to six years jail with a non-parole period of four years.
It comes after a jury found him guilty of nine out of a total of 14 charges of indecent assault, committing an act of indecency and one count of having sexual intercourse with a child aged 10-14.
Glasheen faced an eight-day trial at Gosford District Court in August, which heard several charges related to a victim who was aged seven or eight in 2007 when Mr Glasheen first asked her to go to the toilet with him at his Randwick home.
Glasheen took her hand and used it to masturbate himself before telling her “don’t tell anyone” or words to that effect.
The court heard on another occasion Glasheen allegedly exposed himself to her while they were swimming in his backyard pool, grabbed her breasts and got her to give him what she would later learn was a “hand job”.
But the court heard she stopped when she heard someone coming because “she didn’t want to get into trouble”.
Another time Glasheen was tickling her in a “playful way” when he reached under her shorts and sexually assaulted her.
In 2013, when the girl was 12 or 13, they were playing poker at his house when he started to tickle her and squeezed her breast and said words to the effect “they’re getting big”.
Glasheen exposed himself to another victim twice at his Randwick home and then indecently assaulted her and a third victim in the swimming pool of his holiday home at Umina Beach.
The court heard the mothers of two victims became aware of the abuse but it was not until they contacted the mother of the first victim in December 2017, when the “gravity” of the offending became clear.
With time already served since his arrest last year Glasheen will be eligible for release on April 16, 2022.