‘Sugar daddy’ plastic surgeon jailed for abusing girls

A ‘sugar daddy’ integrative surgeon who preyed connected girls arsenic young arsenic 13 for enactment has been jailed for six years.

Richard Sackelariou, 70, became obsessed with young girls aft joining sugar daddy websites and ne'er stopped wanting to person enactment with them adjacent when told their existent ages, Judge Timothy Gartelmann said connected Friday.

The justice told Newcastle District Court victim interaction statements from the girls showed they still suffered fearfulness and anxiousness implicit what Sackelariou had done to them.

Two of the girls had been astatine schoolhouse when Sackelariou asked them to nonstop explicit photos to him successful instrumentality for money.

Sackelariou asked 1 girl, 14, if she was connected commencement power aft they had enactment and when she said no, helium offered to springiness her $100 to bargain a morning-after pill.

He paid 1 girl, aged 15, much than $22,000 implicit astir a year for enactment and explicit photos and videos.

Another girl, 14, was paid astir $7600.

“They (the victims) person mislaid their consciousness of trust successful others and their self-confidence. They proceed to suffer with guilt and shame implicit it,” Judge Gartelmann said when jailing Sackelariou for six years with a minimum of 4 years.

“The harm to each the victims indispensable beryllium recognised successful sentencing the offender.

“Offences involving intersexual exploitation of children invariably origin them harm. This makes them inherently serious.”

The justice said the six victims, aged betwixt 13 and 15, had been vulnerable to exploitation and while there was nary grounds Sackelariou used unit oregon coercion against immoderate unwilling victim, this did not excuse his crimes.

Sackelariou, who had practices successful Sydney and Melbourne and was joined with two children, paid the girls helium had mostly met done the sugar daddy sites arsenic well arsenic connected κοινωνικά media, including SnapChat, to articulation him successful edifice rooms successful Sydney, Newcastle and Queensland, betwixt September 2021 and October 2022.

He pleaded blameworthy to 10 charges, including causing a kid aged betwixt 14 and 18 to bash an enactment of prostitution, utilizing a carriage work to procure someone under the property of 16 for intersexual activity, possessing kid maltreatment worldly and causing a kid aged 14 oregon implicit to marque kid maltreatment material.

Sackelariou began utilizing sugar daddy websites aft large surgery successful 2017 meant helium had to wear a colostomy container for 5 years. His wife nary longer wanted to person enactment with him.

Judge Gartelmann accepted Sackelariou was ashamed and embarrassed by his offending and his wife had since divorced him and his two sons refused to speak to him.

The justice believed there was small accidental of Sackelariou re-offending fixed his erstwhile bully character.

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Source: AAP