Robin Bakic-Kaindl: North Albury man lured boy for sex
It was a family road trip of a different kind when a North Albury man travelled more than 500km with his unwitting wife and adult stepson to meet a ‘14-year-old boy’ he had lured to a Sydney train station.
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It was a family road trip of a different kind when North Albury’s Robin Bakic-Kaindl travelled more than 500km with his unwitting wife and adult stepson to meet a ‘14-year-old boy’ he had lured to a train station in Sydney’s southwest.
The 55-year-old had met the youth on a gay dating website and spent the next ten weeks messaging the target, revealing to him his sexual fantasies and discussing in detail proposed sexual exploits such as unprotected intercourse and threesomes. However, the boy he was lusting over was actually a police officer from Strike Force Trawler.
Bakic-Kaindl first contacted the ‘boy’ in December 2018 and offered to teach him sex. On another occasion he asked the boy for his penis size and told him to visit Albury for a weekend. Another time he wrote “I tossed off thinking about you”.
After travelling across the state for an arranged meet-up in February last year, the North Albury man left his wife and mentally-impaired stepson inside an Ibis hotel room in Casula as he went to meet the ‘14-year-old boy’ of his fantasies. On his arrival at Liverpool train station he was arrested by police and had been remanded in custody ever since, charged with using a carriage service to procure a child for sex.
The court heard the man, who had been on the disability pension since 2016, had a deprived childhood however it was not linked to his criminal behaviour.
Judge Andrew Colefax said it was a concern the 55-year-old didn’t believe his actions were wrong, labelling his chances of rehabilitation as low.
“The world of the internet is a dark and dangerous place,” Mr Colefax said. “Children, despite the best efforts of their parents … have access to it and are exposed to people like you.”
Bakic-Kaindl was sentenced to a total of three years jail in light of his early guilty plea and is to be released from prison on a recognisance order in December this year.