A Corrimal peadophile who sexually abused the six-year-old-son of a woman he befriended online will remain behind bars until at least 2019.
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Anthonio Scavera was sentenced to a minimum of four years and two months’ jail in the NSW District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges of child rape, aggravated indecent assault and possessing child abuse material.
The court heard he became friends with the boy’s mother on Facebook sometime before the incident and began spending time at her house, regularly playing video and computer games with her son.
The sexual abuse occurred on an evening in December 2013 while Scavera was babysitting the boy after his mother and her partner had gone out.
Scavera videoed himself performing fellatio on the boy and digitally penetrating him, before finishing the assault by masturbating over the child.
The boy's mother overheard a conversation between Scavera and her son later that evening, the contents of which prompted her to kick Scavera out of the house and ask her son what had happened.
The boy told her Scavera had touched him, however the woman did not report the matter to police at the time for personal reasons.
Police only became aware of the incident when they uncovered the video of the sexual encounter on Scavera's iPad while searching his home on unrelated matters a year later.
As well as the video of him and the boy, Scavera had a further 117 videos and 479 pictures depicting child pornography - 18 of which fell into the most severe category for such material.
In court on Thursday, a victim impact statement written by the boy’s mother and tendered during the proceedings said both she and her son had been forever changed by what had occurred.
“I won’t read it [the statement] out, but it makes it clear that there has been a significant impact on the mother of the child, and there’s information that indicates this will also have a significant affect on the child himself, who’s undergoing therapy,” Judge Norman Delaney said.
He indicated Scavera too would need ongoing, intensive therapy to reduce the high risk he posed to society.
With time already served, Scavera’s earliest release date will be February 2019. His overall sentence will expire in June 2021.