AUSTRALIA
PerthNow
June 6, 2018
By Elle Farcic
A FORMER Jehovah’s Witness who sexually assaulted three young boys says his homosexual inclinations were repressed by his religion and manifested in his crimes.
Gavin Andrew Lamont, 46, was jailed for four years today for assaulting two vulnerable teenagers in the early to mid-90s and another boy about 20 years later.
Lamont encouraged the teens to give him massages and suggested he needed help checking for testicular cancer.
District Court Judge Linda Petrusa said Lamont, who knew he was homosexual from about age 13, had significant cognitive distortions around sex because of his religious beliefs.
She said the victims, who were aged between 14 and 16, were vulnerable because of their youth and lack of sophistication.
Judge Petrusa sentenced Lamont to four years behind bars for indecently dealing with a child and four counts of indecent assault.
Lamont was kicked out of the Mundaring congregation in 1997 after one of his victims complained to other members, but was reinstated after doing counselling with elders.
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