Pakenham dad Rick Antrobus admits sexual penetration of a child, possess child abuse material
A Pakenham disability worker who committed vile child sex offending sobbed while his victims’ confronted the fiend in court.
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A depraved former disability support worker who committed vile child sexual offending has sobbed in court while his lewd behaviour was laid bare.
Rick Antrobus, 23, pleaded guilty in the County Court on Tuesday to sexual penetration of a child and produce, access and possess child abuse material.
Antrobus, formerly of Pakenham, committed a vile sexual act on a child at Cranbourne in September last year.
Dandenong Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team members received intelligence Antrobus had accessed child abuse material via the internet.
The court heard Antrobus accessed the child abuse material via multiple social media sites under the username ‘rockfid’.
Police raided Antrobus’ home and seized a hard drive and multiple devices including a PS4 on July 27 last year.
Investigators analysed Antrobus’ Samsung Galaxy S21 which contained multiple vile child abuse material images and files of “unidentified children”.
Antrobus was later arrested and interviewed on September 8 but the fiend was released on summons.
Police analysed Antrobus’ other devices which revealed the grub had accessed child abuse material on multiple occasions.
The titles of the child abuse material accessed by Antrobus are too vile to be published.
Police arrested Antrobus again on November 27
Antrobus, who also pleaded guilty to intentionally sexually touching a child under 16 and sexual activity in the presence of a child, was caught with more child abuse material.
The mother of a victim said, in her victim impact statement read to the court, that her “whole world fell apart”.
“I needed to be there for (my daughter),” the mother said.
“I don’t think I’d be able to fully recover from how broken I became because of this …”
The defence submitted Antrobus committed an “appalling crime”.
The court heard Antrobus dropped out of Carrum Downs Secondary College before taking a job at McDonald’s.
Antrobus, a dad, later worked as a disability support worker at Cranbourne community organisation up until the time of his arrest.
The fiend wants to work as an electrician when released.
Antrobus, who sobbed throughout the hearing, will be made a registered sex offender for life.
Judge Amanda Chambers will sentence Antrobus, who appeared via videolink from Ravenhall, at a later date.
