Pedophile took students to nudist beach

A pedophile teacher took boys to a Melbourne nudist beach, plied them with booze and sexually abused them.

One complained to a nun in the 1980s that John Paul College teacher Desmond Casey was “doing stuff” to them, only to be shrugged off.

The 73-year-old former teacher has been jailed for up to six years and three months for abusing three classmates at the Frankston college more than 30 years ago.

Casey groomed students who were being picked on, repeatedly took them to nudist beaches and swan naked with them, and gave them booze and pornographic magazines.

After a day at the beach, he took one boy, aged between 13 and 14, back home and raped him with a candle.

The teacher also targeted the boy’s friend and took the duo swimming naked and then back to his home, where he gave them lubricant and condoms to “practise”.

He played a “game” with another student at a local pool which involved pulling down their pants and abusing them underwater.

Casey went on to rape them in a car park, at his own sister’s house and at the nudist beach.

When caught more than 30 years later, the former teacher blamed the abuse on confusion about his own sexuality.

Victorian County Court Judge Gregory Lyon was blunt when he sentenced the pedophile on Thursday to a non-parole period of three years and three months.

“Make no mistake, pedophilia is not ascribable to a confusion about sexuality,” the judge said.

“You set your moral compass to zero. Your actions deserve the denunciation of the community.”

Casey pleaded guilty to eight charges, including indecently assaulting a male under the age of 16, gross indecency with a person under the age of 16, and the sexual penetration of a person between the ages of 10 and 16 between 1980 and 1986.

David Adams

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