Kirk Wu fronts court over sexual abuse of a sleeping teen
A Melbourne teen went to police after stumbling over videos of an older man performing sex acts on him while he was sleeping.
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A Melbourne-based online education consultant who filmed himself performing sex acts sex on a sleeping boy on multiple occasions was busted after the victim discovered the vile images in the grub’s laptop.
Kirk Wu was arrested after the boy went to police with the former’s laptop and the videos, kept in a file marked “private”, were analysed in January 2020.
Wu, 28, pleaded guilty in June to charges of rape and sexual assault and was jailed three years’ and six months’ when he appeared for sentencing in County Court on Wednesday.
The former Camberwell Grammar School student offended on six occasions between January 2016 and April 2018 in Victoria.
Judge Liz Gaynor said on one occasion, Wu masturbated the boy twice and on another, he performed oral sex on him four times while filming his offending.
In his victim impact statement, the boy said he experienced chronic sleeplessness, social anxiety based on a general mistrust of the world, quit his job and lost a large number of friends since Wu’s offending.
“It may have been that you were immature and you did not fully appreciate the wrongness of what you were doing given that the complainant was asleep but the truth is what you did to him on those six occasions amounted to utter exploitation,” Judge Gaynor said.
“After the first offending, you went into an intense period of self-loathing, swore to yourself that you’d never do it again.
“Unfortunately, you went on to offend a further five occasions. You used him as an object to satisfy your own desires.
“It would appear you did not have the ability to understand fully just how wrong your actions were,” she said.
Wu was unable to explain to a psychologist why he filmed his offending but said the footage was not uploaded online or shown to anyone.
He will be eligible for parole in two years.
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