bob&carole wrote:
> bob&carole wrote:
> > bobandcarole wrote:
> > > bobandcarole~ wrote:
> > > > Child killer jailed for 25 years
> > > >
> > > > August 11, 2006 - 1:44PM
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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