In mid-2017, the man faced decades behind bars for committing 10 online child sexual offences, including six counts of engaging in sexual activity using a carriage service with a person under 16.
He acknowledged the behaviour was “predatory and exploitative” and the offending was “rightly regarded as abhorrent and disgraceful”.
The judge who convicted him noted the man was “repeatedly, powerfully, intelligently and with insight expressed his contrition and remorse for his activities”, which was described as being “genuine”.
The man was given an intensive community-based corrections order.
In his application to NCAT, the man said the last incident occurred in October 2014, sometime after he turned 23, and his prospects of rehabilitation had been found to be “very favourable”.
“The starting point must be an acknowledgment that the offences for which the applicant was convicted were extremely serious and were of a nature that would provoke a high level of distrust in the minds of those with knowledge of what the applicant did,” Mr Westgarth said.
However, Mr Westgarth accepted the offending had occurred a decade ago, there has been no further offending, and there is expert evidence of the man’s dedication to rehabilitation.
[Ed: So if you are intelligent enough to say the right things and not get caught again anything is possible.]
Source: Man with child abuse convictions allowed to work in law firm – Lawyers Weekly
This is their hard wired Id based desire stuff.
If counselling could ‘cure’ this it could ‘cure’ heterosexuality…