You are 30 years of age, having been born on 24 March 1978. When you were very young, around six years of age, your parents separated. Your father was a violent man particularly towards you and was a man engaged in criminal activity. At one stage, during your primary school years, you and your mother lived with your maternal grandparents. Your grandmother was a paranoid schizophrenic. Your mother, in her statement to the police, said there were some difficulties because of your grandmother's mental state, however you seemed to get on well with your grandparents. Your grandmother has since died.
Your mother then re-partnered and is still in that relationship. Your mother and her husband, Mr Wallace, have two children, a 16 year old son and a 10 year old daughter. After you completed primary school you then went to Mooroolbark Technical School. You told Mr Joblin that you had significant problems at school including bullying and abuse. Understandably this caused you to be a truant. As a result you have had difficulties with literacy since, and Mr Joblin reported that you showed frustration when reading the brief of evidence.
After you left school, you have always been a person in employment. I accept Mr Lewis's submission that notwithstanding any psychological or emotional difficulties you have had, you have always maintained a reputation as a hard worker with a good employment record and you have been well thought of by your employers. You worked for a take away food business for nine and a half years, then a car restoration firm for 18 months. After this stage you worked for four years for a timber company and then drove a truck for 12 months. Mr Hutt, who is the owner of Churchill Building and Maintenance Company, speaks highly of your work ethic. His company maintains and reworks truck parts. He set out in glowing terms how responsible you are in your job and how clients are very appreciative of your efforts.
When you worked for the take away food business you met your wife Rebecca, with whom you have two children now aged five, a daughter, and a son, two. That relationship has ended. On 26 December 2007, when you were in prison your wife told you that the relationship had finished. You told Mr Joblin that the relationship with your wife had been deteriorating over the previous few months. However, you have maintained contact with your children with the agreement of your wife.
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Your mother, Karen Wallace, told the police of a number of concerns she had during your adolescence in relation to sexual matters. As to the prior finding of guilt, she explained the circumstances of that to the police which was that you had told her you had randomly selected a name from a telephone book and called this particular woman because it excited you. At the time you were married but your mother did not tell your wife. She said that when you were growing up you had exposed yourself at a young age of 15 to a local woman, and that you had been over the years ringing sex telephone lines on a regular basis.