Melton fiend Felony Williams sentenced for sexually assaulting Bendigo schoolgirl at Gillies Pies

A Melton fiend caught a train to Bendigo where he violated a 14-year-old girl at the abandoned Gillies pie factory “sex den”.

Felony Williams pleaded guilty to sexual penetration of a child under 16. Facebook.

A dirty fiend who caught a train to Bendigo and sexually assaulted a schoolgirl after meeting the victim via Snapchat has avoided a jail sentence.

Felony Williams, 19, was sentenced in the County Court on Wednesday to a three-year community correction order after pleading guilty to charges including sexual penetration of a child under 16.

Williams, who was 18 at time of offending, met his 14-year-old victim via Snapchat.

The unemployed Melton man caught a train to Bendigo where he met his victim in February last year.

The pair visited a shopping centre where a friend of the victim told Williams the girl was only 14 and it was illegal for them to be in a relationship.

“It was OK as long as the police didn’t find out,” Williams said.

Williams also plied his victim and another girl with drugs, the court was told.

He sexually assaulted his victim at the railway station before catching a train back to Melbourne.

The victim later said she “didn’t know what to do” so “just let it happen”, the court was told.

Williams returned to Bendigo via train just two days later and met

his victim again after she took the day off school.

Williams took his victim to the abandoned Gillies pie factory where he forced the child to have sex with him.

The court heard the victim “didn’t want to have sex” but “eventually agreed”.

The words “sex den” were graffitied on the wall where Williams had sex with the child, the court was told.

Williams told his victim to lie down because they were going to “do it”.

The victim said it “hurt” but Williams told her she “needed to deal with it” and “don’t tell anyone”.

The court was told the girl said she later received threatening messages from Williams and his sister.

The victim, in her victim impact statement read to the court, said she is now “scared of males”.

“I cry when I look in the mirror and have regular nightmares,” she said.

“I feel below everyone else and a loser.”

The defence submitted Williams has an intellectual disability which lessened his culpability.

However, the prosecution responded Williams was able to catch a train from Melbourne to Bendigo and was aware having sex with a child was illegal.

The court heard Williams, a New Zealand citizen, moved to Australia when he was 13.

Judge Fiona Todd ordered Williams, who also pleaded guilty to supplying drugs to a child, undertake judicial monitoring and seek treatment and rehabilitation.

Williams, who appeared via videolink from Hopkins Correctional, was made a sex offender for life.

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