Inked up rapist gets more prison time ahead of major sentence
Aron Goodrem is facing years behind bars for attacks on multiple women - his rapes, beatings and stalking charges have yet to be dealt with but he got more than a year in prison for his lesser crimes.
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An evil rapist, who is facing years behind bars for attacks on multiple women, has had a taste of justice months before he’s sentenced for the worst of his crimes.
Wannabe bikie Aron Goodrem was arrested on December 2018 after a six-month investigation into rape, kidnapping and assault against four women.
The heavily inked former Central Coast landscaper was initially charged with 54 offences but dozens more were levelled against him including stalking, choking, assault, rape and kidnapping.
He was ultimately slugged with 83 charges in total after a fifth woman came forward to police.
Some of Goodrem’s crimes were so severe — rapes, assaults and stalking — they went to the District Court.
He pleaded guilty to about one quarter of the allegations, including seven counts of sexual intercourse without consent, eleven assaults and three stalking incidents.
The rest of the charges were dropped.
Local Court Deputy Chief Magistrate Jane Mottley dealt with two other charges of contravene apprehended violence orders and one count of perverting the course of justice on Wednesday.
The AVOs, the court heard, were breached when Goodrem badgered an old friend and former girlfriend to put $50 in his prison bank account.
His lawyer, Jonathan Jaramillo, conceded it had been repeated contact and had come across as “aggressive”.
Goodrem is a month from completing a year behind bars in the Hunter Valley for another AVO breach.
The perversion of justice charge was more serious. Goodrem had been driving a car in 2016 when he smashed into a pregnant woman’s vehicle.
Instead of owning up to his crime and facing the drug and alcohol tests he asked his passenger, who was also pregnant, to take the fall for him.
She did and climbed into the driver’s seat but the pretence later unravelled before a court.
All up Goodrem was given 15 months behind bars on Wednesday.
He watched the sentencing in prison greens via the audiovisual link.
The sentence is as much a victory for him as punishment.
Goodrem had asked for no parole period because, with his current sentence about to expire, he was about to be put back on remand and lose access to privileges behind bars afforded to full-time prisoners.
Wednesday’s sentence ensures he will continue to be classified as a prisoner and can complete an anger management course.
That will help him plead his case when he is sentenced in September for his most heinous attacks.
Goodrem’s reign of terror was said to have taken place in western Sydney suburbs as well as the state’s central west.
One victim previously told the District Court she had felt suicide was the “only way” to escape Goodrem, spoke of how she was punched, had lit cigarettes stubbed out on her arm and threatened with a machete.
“Aron scarred my body, bruised me and made me bleed,” she said.
The former ice addict groomed his victim before making her feel like a “caged animal”.
It is expected he will be handed a lengthy sentence when he faces the District Court again in September.