Blake Ross becomes registered sex offender after sex with teens
An aspiring paramedic jailed over several sexual encounters with girls as young as 14 wound up back in court for failing to meet his most basic obligations as a registered sex offender.
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An aspiring paramedic jailed over a series of sexual encounters with teenage girls was hauled back to court after he failed to comply with basic requirements for registered child sex offenders.
Blake Michael Ross, 26, was jailed for six months in September 2017 and placed on the child sex offenders’ registry for 15 years after he was found guilty of having sex with two girls aged 14 and 15 at different locations across Sydney.
Ross had sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in Helensburgh in mid-2015 twice and committed an indecent act against her.
In the months immediately afterwards the Kirrawee man committed two indecent acts against a 14-year-old girl at locations in Tempe and Kirrawee.
The details of two further sexual encounters with a girl aged 15, for which Ross was ultimately jailed, remain shrouded in mystery after the NSW District Court registry denied access to documents detailing Ross’ most sordid misdeeds.
Just three months after his parole period expired Ross was back in court after failing to comply with his basic obligations as a registered child sex offender.
Ross is required to attend Sutherland police every June to report his current address and contact details – but in 2019 he did not find the time to do so within 30 possible days.
“Ross was placed on the Child Protection Offenders Register on June 23, 2017 for 15 years due to committing three Class 2 offences and four Class 1 offences,” court documents stated.
“The act states the accused must provide police with personal information, and the accused failed to attend Sutherland police station during the month of June 2019.”
Ross faced a maximum potential penalty of five years’ jail for failing to report but he escaped conviction when he faced Magistrate Michael Connell at Sutherland Local Court, who gave him an 18-month conditional release order.
“He says he failed to report because he was caring for his sick, elderly grandparents,” Mr Connell said.
Ross was originally sentenced to at least eight months behind bars before a successful District Court appeal, despite the Crown prosecutor’s competing bid to have his sentence increased.
He was also sentenced to supervision by Community Corrections with education on child sexual assault upon his release from jail in March 2018.
Under the order made for failing to comply with his reporting conditions Ross is required to be of good behaviour until April 2021.
The keen athlete worked as a bartender upon his release from prison and is now studying a Bachelor of Paramedicine at Charles Sturt University in the state’s Central West.