A serial paedophile plied a boy with alcohol before sexually assaulting him in a caravan during a central Victoria camping trip almost 30 years ago.
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Victor Monson, 76, was sentenced in the Victorian County Court after he pleaded guilty to one count of sexual penetration of a child aged between 10 and 16 in 1989.
Monson drove the 12-year-old boy to a caravan park past Castlemaine, buying a pornographic magazine and rum on the way and told him they would share a bed.
“The victim recalls his heart racing because he knew something was not right,” Judge Michael O'Connell said on Tuesday.
The paedophile told the boy to drink some rum and look at pornography before Monson performed a sex act on him at the caravan park, the court heard.
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“The following morning you repeatedly told the victim what had happened was a secret to be kept between you and him and no one should know about it,” Judge O'Connell said.
The victim was confused and hurt by the act, which was his first sexual experience, the judge said.
The victim recalls his heart racing because he knew something was not right
- Judge Michael O'Connell
The victim, now 41, developed extreme distrust in all people and struggled with depression.
“In essence, he says you wrecked his life,” Judge O'Connell said.
Monson was previously jailed for sexually assaulting four boys between 1978 and 1982 when he coached a soccer team in Perth.
He pleaded guilty to 104 offences, including anal penetration, in the District Court of Western Australia under the name Otto Seamus Darcy-Searle in 2000.
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The paedophile was released on parole in 2005 and moved to a small NSW town with family, but had his parole cancelled due to community outcry.
He was released from prison in 2007.
Despite undertaking intensive sex offender treatment in prison and making significant progress in rehabilitation, Judge O’Connell said a wholly suspended sentence was not appropriate.
"There was an element of grooming … the use of pornography and alcohol is another aggravating factor," he said.
Monson will serve an immediate six-month jail term, followed by a two-year suspended term and be on the sex offender register for life.
AAP
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