A former primary school teacher convicted of sexual offending against a 10-year-old boy has avoided prison despite a judge labelling his crime devious and opportunistic.
“[Bloom] accepts certain boundaries around appropriate sexual behaviour, in the context of struggling with his sexuality, were likely obscured, though he denied that he was predatory or engaged in forced or unwanted sexual conduct.“This runs contrary to the facts of this case where you ingratiated yourself with the victim and his friends before engaging in clearly unwanted sexual conduct with him. It appears your insight into your offending is thus somewhat limited.
“You were not exploring your sexuality, you were sexually assaulting a child some 10 years younger than yourself in a devious and opportunistic way.”Fargher said Bloom later followed the victim in the street and told him not to tell anyone what had happened. “Mr Bloom told the victim that he would find out if he told anyone and that he would get angry,” the prosecutor said.The court heard the victim reported the abuse to police in 2019.
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