Drive-by bicycle flasher given 10 years

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ONE of our most prolific sex fiends has been jailed for more than a decade after flashing 114 children while riding his bicycle. The Herald Sun reports Trevor Ross Hemer, 58, was on parole for a string of rapes and attacks of children in their homes when he switched to his new sick pastime in 2003.

His earlier crimes involved posing as a doctor and tricking his way into the homes of migrant families who spoke little English.

A parent gave chase after catching Hemer exposing himself from his bicycle, causing cuts and scratches as the angry father attempted to detain him. Hemer escaped on his bike but left blood at the scene. The County Court heard his child victims were aged four to 15, with 114 children and two women targeted over six years.

Hemer had done a sex offender treatment course in prison but while on parole did not have to undergo any kind of treatment. Judge Wendy Wilmoth said psychologists who saw him after the rapes in 1994 deemed him unlikely to reoffend with treatment. They now consider him a "moderately high" risk of reoffending. He pleaded guilty to 59 counts of committing indecent acts in front of children and two of wilful exposure. Judge Wilmoth jailed Hemer for 10 years and 9 months with a minimum of seven years' jail.

If it wasn't for the fact he's a rapist/attacker, the whole "bicycle flashing" thing might have been a little funny. Still, wow, what...?

so uh guys i figure it's about time to tell you that i won't be on for a while

like... maybe for the next ten years

Doesn't Australia tend to give lighter sentences than this for murder? Or am I projecting England's failure on to Australia?

The only thing that begins to make this understandable is that he's already been convicted of rape. Because jailing someone for a decade for something that amounts to little more than a drunken college prank is just moronic.

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Doesn't Australia tend to give lighter sentences than this for murder? Or am I projecting England's failure on to Australia?

The only thing that begins to make this understandable is that he's already been convicted of rape. Because jailing someone for a decade for something that amounts to little more than a drunken college prank is just moronic.

Sounds more like it was a fetish to him. It doesn't say if he flashed all those kids at once. And what did he do after he got himself into those homes? Assault, rape, flash and run? I wish they'd clarified a bit more in this.

Unless I'm just being an idiot and my brain is failing to work this out.

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ONE of our most prolific sex fiends has been jailed for more than a decade after flashing 114 children while riding his bicycle. The Herald Sun reports Trevor Ross Hemer, 58, was on parole for a string of rapes and attacks of children in their homes when he switched to his new sick pastime in 2003.

His earlier crimes involved posing as a doctor and tricking his way into the homes of migrant families who spoke little English.

A parent gave chase after catching Hemer exposing himself from his bicycle, causing cuts and scratches as the angry father attempted to detain him. Hemer escaped on his bike but left blood at the scene. The County Court heard his child victims were aged four to 15, with 114 children and two women targeted over six years.

Hemer had done a sex offender treatment course in prison but while on parole did not have to undergo any kind of treatment. Judge Wendy Wilmoth said psychologists who saw him after the rapes in 1994 deemed him unlikely to reoffend with treatment. They now consider him a "moderately high" risk of reoffending. He pleaded guilty to 59 counts of committing indecent acts in front of children and two of wilful exposure. Judge Wilmoth jailed Hemer for 10 years and 9 months with a minimum of seven years' jail.

If it wasn't for the fact he's a rapist/attacker, the whole "bicycle flashing" thing might have been a little funny. Still, wow, what...?

It still is kinda funny.

There's something funny about exposing oneself to other people in order to frighten them?

Don't take flashing lightly.

When will people learn that pedophiles are very unlikely to change their ways? Once a pedo, always a pedo.

116 people, yeah, I think he might need to be dealt with. Call it a hunch.

Also, some of the mechanics of nude/semi-nude cycling trouble me quite a bit, for reasons unrelated to decency.

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They now consider him a "moderately high" risk of reoffending.

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Bicycle flasher is kind of like a lame pun. Did anybody else call bike lights that as a kid? One phoenix down for my childhood, please.