Roy Glasheen guilty of 9 out of 14 child sex abuse charges
He entered the trial as a kindly grandfather but after eight days of evidence, Roy Ernest Glasheen has left Gosford District Court a convicted paedophile.
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Roy Ernest Glasheen will face a sentencing hearing in November after a jury found him guilty of nine out of 14 charges of child sexual abuse on Thursday.
The 70-year-old, of Randwick, pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of indecent and sexual assault against three victims between 2007 and 2017.
But it did not take a jury long to convict him of six counts of indecently assaulting a child under 16, committing an act of indecency to a child under 10, a further indecent assault to a child under 10 and having sexual intercourse with a child aged 10-14.
Glasheen faced an eight-day trial at Gosford District Court, which heard eight 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 Crown prosecutor said she stopped when she heard someone coming because “she didn’t want to get into trouble”.
Another time the Crown alleges he 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 allegedly squeezed her breast and said words to the effect “they’re getting big”.
The Crown prosecutor said for the first time she told him to stop.
A further four counts related to a second victim Glasheen allegedly exposed himself to and the remaining two charges related to a third victim who he allegedly assaulted 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 alleged offending became clear.
Glasheen will face a sentencing hearing in the Downing Centre District Court on November 15.