A child sex survivor has spoken of her devastation after an evil pedophile continued to abuse children after he terrorised her into dropping the charges. <\/p>\n
The long-term foster carer for the Department of Child Protection, Ricky John Bennett, 70, will likely die in jail after he was jailed for more than two decades on Thursday for his sickening child sex crimes.<\/p>\n
Outside court after the sentencing, the victim who reported to police that she was assaulted by Bennett in 2013 said she was sickened that he went on to abuse further children after her. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re told as a child that if something serious happens to you or that you\u2019re assaulted that you need to get help so I did \u2013 but from there I was failed by the very institution put in place to protect me and help me,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
The victim said Bennett \u201charassed, stalked and tormented\u201d her after she reported him to the police, including showing up at her workplace, and she eventually dropped the charges as a result. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was a child, I was vulnerable. I needed help,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Another victim was as young as five when her abuse started.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe needs to die in there because otherwise I won\u2019t get any satisfaction,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll of this could have been stopped because one girl spoke up and nobody believed her, they believed a man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another victim said Bennett\u2019s abuse had significantly affected her, particularly now she is a parent.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe deserves to rot in there. He doesn\u2019t deserve to be out, he\u2019s taken away a lot of things from a lot of people,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Judge Barklay found Bennett guilty in April of 17 child sex offences, including sexual abuse of a child, unlawful sexual intercourse and indecent assault.<\/p>\n
During Bennett\u2019s trial, the court heard he supplied some of the victims with alcohol, with one victim describing \u201cpassing in and out of consciousness\u201d when Bennett assaulted her.<\/p>\n
\u201cVarious techniques were employed by the defendant to manipulate the children, often through purchases or giving money, through emotional manipulation,\u201d the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
The court heard after the 2013 charge was dropped, Bennett\u2019s sexual abuse of some of his victims became more prolific, particularly after his wife passed in 2015.<\/p>\n
During sentencing, Judge Barklay slammed Bennett as a \u201cskilful, dangerous and determined sexual predator\u201d who exploited the children\u2019s vulnerabilities in the \u201cmost horrendous way\u201d.<\/p>\n
After combining the sentences for each victim, Bennett\u2019s sentence was 60.5 years, however Judge Barklay determined it would be \u201ccrushing\u201d and jailed him for 24 years, with a non-parole period of 19 years and two months.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour offending was persistent, and repugnant, and ongoing for the best part of 20 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Outside court, the father of one of the victims said the jail sentence was a long time coming but justice was served.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud of what she\u2019s (my daughter) done, immensely proud, to come to court to put this person away, who will never see the light of day,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The sentence was backdated to August 27, 2021.<\/p>\n
Department for Child Protection Chief Executive Jackie Bray said welcomed the \u201csignificant\u201d sentence, which \u201creflects the serious harm caused by these abhorrent crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe acknowledge the devastating trauma experienced by these young women and we\u2019re committed to supporting them in whatever way necessary to help them to heal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child sex survivor has spoken of her devastation after an evil pedophile continued to abuse children after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,11702,26889,26895,26894,2601,26887,26886,26893,2602,10676,15880,26892,26890,5697,26891,26888,14689],"class_list":["post-29359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-child-sex-offences","tag-department-of-child-protection","tag-determined-sexual-predator","tag-evil-pedophile","tag-facebook","tag-failed-victims","tag-girl-spoke","tag-horrific-child","tag-inc","tag-jail-sentence","tag-lucy-rutherford","tag-meth-charges","tag-multiple-child","tag-non-parole-period","tag-outside-court","tag-ricky-john-bennett","tag-sexual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}