Arthur Alliband: Convicted child sex offender handed 58 supervision conditions by Supreme Court
A man who sexually abused a teenage girl on the day he was released from jail has been handed a list of conditions by a court.
A convicted sexual predator who once appeared to smile for TV cameras on his way to court has been handed a list of 58 rules to live by under an extended supervision order.
Arthur Alliband has served jail sentences for child sexual assault and sparked outrage in 2016 for abusing a teenage girl in a western Sydney park on the same day he was released on parole.
The State of NSW applied to put him on strict rules in the Supreme Court as Alliband’s parole term for the March 2016 assault approached expiry.
Justice Elizabeth Fullerton on Friday ordered he be placed under a raft of conditions for the next two-and-a-half years to ensure he does not reoffend – and to aid his rehabilitation and for community safety.
Under the slew of rules, Alliband can‘t approach a school, children’s playground or sporting field, attend an amusement park or public swimming pool.
He can only go to public libraries during school hours to avoid interaction with children and cannot leave his house between 9pm and 6am.
If he views or accesses pornography he must tell his supervisors within 24 hours and must given them 24 hours notice if he intends to see a sex worker or visit a sex shop.
“It’s very important you do understand what’s expected of you because a breach of any one of those conditions exposes you to the risk of being punished criminally,” Ms Fullerton said.
Ms Fullerton said that could include being taken back into custody, something she was sure Alliband would be keen to avoid.
She said the conditions were critical to help him reintegrate into society and ensure the community could be “confident” that he would not reoffend.
Alliband appeared before the court via video link and sat in his lawyer’s office wearing glasses and a black hoodie.
The state had applied to have him bound by an extended supervision order under the High-Risk Offenders Act during a hearing on Tuesday.
Alliband was arrested in March 2016 after violating a 16-year-old girl on the same day he was released from jail. He was 26 at the time.
After he had served 18 months in prison for having sex with an even younger girl, 13, Alliband met his new victim on the train home.
He took the girl to a park in Seven Hills, buying dozens of pre-mixed alcohol cans at a bottle shop on the way, where he plied her with drinks and sexually abused her.
Police arrived at his Lethbridge Park home to arrest him the next morning, and he was later convicted of sexual intercourse with a minor without consent.
NSW courts set automatic parole dates for people given head sentences of less than three years, meaning Alliband did not have to go through the State Parole Board before his release in March 2016.
In 2017 he was sentenced to a maximum of four-and-a-half years jail, with two years and 11 months to serve as a non-parole period.
The parole body deals with the parole of all inmates serving head sentences of greater than three years and can set conditions upon their release.
Corrective Services NSW loses the power to monitor parolees once their head sentence expires, unless ordered by a court.
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