Convicted serial flasher sentenced for stalking offences

A convicted serial flasher was sentenced on stalking charges after he caused a Bundaberg childcare centre to go into multiple lockdowns.

A convicted serial flasher was sentenced on stalking charges after he caused a Bundaberg childcare centre to go into multiple lockdowns.

A convicted serial flasher was sentenced on stalking charges after he caused a Bundaberg childcare centre to go into multiple lockdowns.

Bundaberg Magistrates Court heard on Thursday that the man was cut off from contact by his daughter following his prior arrest on indecent exposure charges.

These involved seven incidents over seven days in which the man exposed himself in public, including masturbating on Bourbong St and exposing his genitalia in proximity to a school.

The court heard that as a result of being found guilty for these charges, the man‘s daughter and her partner’s family told him that they no longer wished to have any contact with him.

The man was found guilty of indecent exposure charges including exposing his genitalia in proximity to a school.

The man cannot be identified as his daughter was under the age of eighteen at the time of the offences heard before the court.

Police Prosecutor Leon Casey told the court of a series of attempts by the man to contact his daughter and her two-month-old son in a three-month period from August to December 2022.

In the first incident, the man was holding his grandson while standing outside his daughter’s residence after going there against her wishes.

When asked to leave by his daughter’s stepfather, the man threw the child into his daughter’s arms, causing them to clash heads.

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The next day the man asked to look after his grandson, which was refused by his daughter.

The man then sent a series of abusive text and voice messages through the following week including threats to kill himself and saying “I hope your f------ son turns out like you”.

The court heard that shortly afterwards the man attempted to see his grandson when the child was in the care of a Bundaberg daycare centre.

The daycare centre staff, aware of the daughter‘s wishes for the man not to have any contact with her or her son, refused his request and the centre went into lockdown following which the man departed.

The man’s daughter, having been informed of these events, drove to the daycare centre to pick up her son.

he man drove past his daughter and, recognising her car, did a U-turn and drove past his daughter to return to the daycare centre.

His daughter called ahead to warn the staff that the man was returning, and they again refused him access when he arrived demanding to see his grandson using abusive language.

Over the following weeks the man was seen near his daughter’s home and approached her car in the Bundaberg CBD, and made multiple attempts to call her from different phone numbers.

The man was seen again at the daycare centre looking in through a window from the car park on a day when his daughter was volunteering at the centre accompanied by her son.

As a result the daycare centre went into lockdown for a second time.

The man left the area when his daughter’s stepfather arrived on the scene.

Around a week later, the man set fire to rubbish bins outside his daughter’s residence.

The man pleaded guilty before the court to one charge of unlawful stalking – domestic violence offence, and one charge of wilful damage in relation to the rubbish bin fire.

The man was sentenced in Bundaberg Magistrates Court to an 18 month probation period during which he is prohibited from making any contact with his daughter.

Mr Casey submitted that the man should be sentenced to a lengthy term of probation or a suspended sentence.

The man’s solicitor submitted that a probation period of 18 months would be appropriate, telling the court that his client recognised that his persistence in trying to contact his daughter would have caused her “alarm and concern”.

In sentencing Judge John McInnes, while saying that the man had subjected his daughter to a “multi-pronged attack” from her point of view, saw mitigation in the fact that the man was trying to initiate contact with his daughter without being aware that he was committing a criminal stalking offence.

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Judge McInnes saw mitigation in the fact that the man had entered a guilty plea, and saw the stalking engaged in by the man as being in the “lower range” of such offences as he was trying to press what he saw as his legitimate interests in seeing his daughter and grandson.

The man was sentenced to an 18 month probation period, during which he is prohibited from making any contact with his daughter.

The order will be in force until October 19, 2024.

Originally published as Convicted serial flasher sentenced for stalking offences