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June 20, 2019 14:00:05
A Brisbane primary school teacher has been sentenced to four years in jail for touching girls under their skirts while their work was being marked in the clbadroom.
Peter Matthew Malone, 64, pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane to 15 charges including indecent treatment of a child and maintaining an unlawful relationship with a child.
Despite the four-year sentence, it will be suspended after 12 months in custody.
The prosecution said while in his 30s and 40s Malone “abused his position of trust” against four primary school students aged between eight and 13 years old.
He would call the girls up to his desk, reach under their school skirts and stroke their bad, the court heard.
On one occasion he held a girl by her wrist so she could not leave and also pressed himself against a complainant so she could feel his erection through his pants.
Malone also pulled a girl into his lap and pressed his groin against her.
He has previously been convicted and sentenced to three years and six months for similar offending against seven complainants while he was a teacher in the 1980s.
Victim ran away from home, became a drug addict
One of his recent victims, now 30 years old, read an impact statement to the court through tears and said Malone made her fearful of trusting men including her own father.
“I had no self-esteem, and bad anger issues,” she said.
“I felt worthless, unheard, unwanted.”
The woman told the court she would dress like a boy in high school, would not shower and purposefully got into trouble so she would not have to be in the clbadroom.
She said she would be rebellious, runaway from home and became addicted to the drug ice as a way of coping.
The court heard the young woman would sometimes sleep in the shed when her father’s friends were visiting because of anxiety and paranoia.
In sentencing, Judge Julie Dick described Malone’s offending as “a gross breach of trust”.
Topics:
courts-and-trials,
law-crime-and-justice,
badual-offences,
brisbane-4000,
qld
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