A father of three jailed for 28 years for snatching a 12-year-old on her way to school, dragging her into bushes and raping her, had been secretly filming girls on the same path for four years.
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"Society has no place for a person like you," NSW District Court judge David Wilson told Troy Johnson, 33, on Tuesday in Gosford.
"Your conduct suggests you are a person who is simply depraved."
Judge Wilson, who lifted the suppression order on naming Johnson, said the mechanic had lived a double life where he was a family man but in his spare time preyed on children to satisfy his "perverted and evil desires".
The judge said after raping the girl in May 2017 on the state's Central Coast while wearing a camouflage outfit, Johnson called a friend and told him, "Hey dude, you'll never guess what I did."
He then boasted about sexually assaulting a schoolgirl at knifepoint after tying her up with cable ties and duct tape.
The judge rejected Johnson's claims he deserved a lesser sentence because he'd previously been of good character when it was discovered he'd hidden a video camera in his family home since 2009 to film unsuspecting women in the bathroom.
Judge Wilson pointed out Johnson had stalked the schoolgirl for weeks before carrying out his abhorrent plan and had been filming girls walking on the bush path to school since 2013.
He said he believed Johnson had lied to his psychiatrist after his arrest in claiming the attack was out of character, saying he didn't know why he did it and blaming the devil.
Johnson pleaded guilty to seven charges involving the sexual assault of the 12-year-old on May 15, 2017 and three involving the grooming and sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl between August 2016 and April 2017.
He was jailed for 28 years with a minimum of 21 years.
Judge Wilson said Johnson had betrayed the community, his young, innocent victims and his own family.
Johnson's decision to take photos of the 12-year-old after he had tied her to the tree had been distasteful and demonstrated his pride in his offending.
"There is a risk of him re-offending which must be guarded against," Judge Wilson said.
Johnson had failed to accept responsibility for his actions and his prospects of rehabilitation were poor.
The 12-year-old girl had been on her way to school at 7.40am when she looked back and saw Johnson, who had told a friend he fantasised about raping somebody, suddenly emerge from the bushes.
Dressed in a camouflage outfit known as a leafy ghillie suit, he dragged her off and assaulted her for almost an hour.
''Shhh, don't scream. Don't scream or I'll have to hurt you," he warned her.
When he eventually cut the girl loose, she ran to school crying hysterically.
Australian Associated Press
