Bendigo stepfather to be jailed for sickening child abuse

A Bendigo stepfather waited for his wife to leave for work before he horrifically sexually abused her two young sons, a court has heard.

A Bendigo stepfather waited until his wife left the house so he could horrifically sexually abuse her two young sons, a court has heard.

The man in his 40s, who can‘t be named, pleaded guilty to several rolled up charges including incest and indecent act with a child under 16 in a part-heard hearing at Bendigo County Court on Thursday.

The court heard the man‘s victims were the children of his wife.

On one occasion, the man kissed the oldest child before sexually abusing him.

He later made the child watch a video called “my sexual sandwich” for about 20 minutes.

The court heard he then told the child he was going to teach him how to kiss before forcing the victim to kiss him for about four minutes.

The predator then forced the child’s head down to his groin before the child ran away.

When the stepfather told him to come back, the victim said: “Why, so you can show me your penis again?”

The young boy waited outside until his mother came home.

The court heard the stepfather also abused the younger child.

The abuse took place while the mother was at work while the man and child were laying in bed.

He told his stepson to suck on his nipples before he kissed him in a sensual fashion.

Months later, the man abused the child in the lounge room of the family’s rental property, the details of which are too graphic to mention.

On a separate occasion, while the then teenager was reading a book, the man emerged from his bedroom without any clothes on before he sexually assaulted the boy again.

The victim told his abuser to stop because he no longer liked it.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, one of the boys said he could no longer sleep in the same bed as someone for fear of being abused again.

The case was adjourned to next year so the defence could seek a neuropsychological report.

But Judge Mark Dean also slammed that request, saying the family had already been through enough.

“I don’t think the family of the victims should be having to wait (for this matter to be resolved,” he said.

Judge Dean remanded the man in custody at the hearing and indicated he would serve a “substantial” period of imprisonment.

He apologised to the mother of the victims for the wait.

The matter will return to court in March.