GIPPSLAND (VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA)
ABC Gippsland
October 27, 2017
By Robert French
A judge has jailed a man for 10 years over child sexual abuse in Victoria’s east, describing him as a “sexual predator” who showed no remorse.
Darran Scott, of Archies Creek, will spend at least seven years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to 16 charges relating to child sexual abuse.
Scott, now 53, worked as a film director, actor and as a freelance cameraman for WIN News.
He started grooming his victims in the early 1990s as a junior football coach in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
The County Court in Morwell heard he plied the boys with sleeping pills, cannabis, alcohol and pornography.
He also indecently assaulted several victims on surfing trips and at his home, near Wonthaggi on Victoria’s Bass Coast.
In sentencing, Judge John Smallwood told Scott he had “ruined lives” and hadn’t shown any remorse “other than self pity”.
“It’s a long way from the remorse anticipated from a man who has done the damage that you have,” he told Scott.
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