bobandcarole~ wrote:
> Child killer jailed for 25 years
>
> August 11, 2006 - 1:44PM
>
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> AdvertisementA pedophile and convicted killer has been jailed for up to
> 25 years following the rape and manslaughter of a three-year-old boy.
> William Thomas Clare, 34, will not be released from jail before July
> 2033 after he was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and nine months
> this morning in the NSW Supreme Court.
>
> Clare's sentence was added to a jail term he is already serving for the
> assault of the boy's six-year-old sister.
>
> Clare, who had been babysitting the two children, was caught after he
> filmed himself raping the girl on September 12, 2003.
>
> He was known to police as a child-sex offender and the Department of
> Community Services had been notified several times of the case.
>
> Justice Michael Grove told the court that the attack on the boy, known
> only as J, "was accompanied by an intention to gratify a depraved
> sexual urge [and] falls within the category of the worst case of
> manslaughter.
>
> "Words are really an insufficient medium to convey an appropriate
> condemnation of your debauched behaviour," Justice Grove told Clare.
>
> Outside court today, the boy's family, who cannot be named, welcomed
> the sentence.
>
> "I am just so relieved that society will be able to move on and not
> have somebody of this nature and character out on the streets upsetting
> anyone else and their family," the childrens' father said.
>
> Their grandmother said the judge was understanding of the problems the
> little boy had faced.
>
> "It was a very, very sad and traumatic time I'm sure for him, and it
> has been very difficult for us and we are very thankful to the judge."
>
> Clare began minding the brother and sister the month before the
> three-year-old boy died, the Supreme Court was told last month.
>
> Seeing the mother and her children at a Sydney rail station, he told
> her she looked "worn out" and offered to babysit.
>
> The woman took him up on the offer, paying him $30 a day to look after
> her children.
>
> But on September 13, 2003, after Clare raped the boy, the child vomited
> and stopped breathing.
>
> Clare said he applied a 240-volt current to the boy's chest "like a
> heart-starter" in an effort to revive him. But this attempt to
> "jump-start" the boy's heart could have killed him, the jury heard.
>
> Clare had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the boy at his unit at
> Croydon, but denied murdering him.
>
> Last month the jury took less than three hours before finding him not
> guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter.
>
> Clare was also sentenced today to 14 years for the aggravated sexual
> assault of the boy.
>
> The sentences, to be served concurrently, will not begin until 2015
> which is Clare's earliest release date for the rape of the six-year-old
> girl.
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