NSW: Gothic predator jailed for molesting girls at cemetery

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2009
NSW: Gothic predator jailed for molesting girls at cemetery

An internet user who solicited girls for sex in a Sydney cemetery and molested a 15-year-old
in a tomb has been jailed for at least six years.

Judge PETER BERMAN has jailed DANIEL WILLIAM PECKHAM to a maximum nine years in the
NSW District Court today .. after he pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a
15-year-old girl in an open tomb at Sydney's Rookwood cemetery in April 2007.

The 24-year-old also admitted to three counts each of using a carriage service to procure
underage girls for sexual activity and to transmit child pornography.

Judge BERMAN has told the court PECKHAM manipulated naive and immature young girls
for his own sexual gratification.

PECKHAM will be eligible for parole from June 21 2013 after his sentence was backdated
to when he went into custody.

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KEYWORD: PECKHAM (SYDNEY)

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