Epping’s Nathan Goodwin caught using SKOUT, Fortnite, Pinterest illegally
He’s previously been locked up for indecently assaulting children, but that hasn’t scared this Epping man out of dipping his toes into the murky world of dating websites.
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An Epping man convicted of indecently assaulting people under the age of 16 has been caught illegally using social media and a dating website.
Just weeks after Nathan Goodwin, a registered sex offender for life, got out of jail for violating conditions of the Sex Offenders Register, he breached them again.
The 32-year-old also contravened new restrictions police had placed on him just days earlier, Heidelberg Magistrates Court heard on Wednesday, May 13.
Goodwin was found to have made a profile on the SKOUT dating application in December, which he used to meet a 22-year-old Queensland woman in an adult live stream chat room.
Senior Constable Michael Kaye said numerous phone calls were made between the pair throughout December.
Police then discovered on December 30 that Goodwin had a Pinterest account, and when he was arrested outside his Epping home on January 23, police found he had the Fortnite gaming application on his phone.
As a permanent member of the Sex Offenders Register since May 2018, the former labourer is required to notify the register of any internet usernames he has.
A further Sex Offender Prohibition Order served on him on December 5, just days before he began using SKOUT, also bans him from using chat rooms, online gaming sites and social media except Facebook in his own name.
Goodwin pleaded guilty to breaching the conditions, having already been in jail for two months on a sentence for other matters heard in the County Court.
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His lawyer emphasised that there were no allegations Goodwin had used social media to talk to any minors in the breaches.
She said the conditions in custody being imposed by coronavirus made it harder for him to get medical treatment and impossible for him to take courses to enhance his chance of getting parole on his present sentence.
She pushed for Goodwin to be handed a concurrent jail sentence that would not delay his eligibility for parole.
But Magistrate Helen Murphy said there did need to be some cumulation in his sentence, seeing as he aggravatingly breached the conditions in early December after he was only released from jail on November 21 for doing the same thing.
She sentenced him to three months’ jail, with two to run concurrently with his previous sentence, and one to be added to his non-parole period.
“Any slip up will be detected,” Ms Murphy told him.