While applying for child sexual abuse victim compensation, a Queensland man indecently treated his partner's grandchildren.
Over a 12-month period from November 2019, the man committed a total of 13 offences on 10 separate occasions involving three girls at a Moreton Bay suburban home.
The 50-year-old man had suffered abuse while growing up in foster care, the District Court heard on Wednesday.
As part of a compensation application through the National Redress Scheme for institutional child sexual abuse survivors, he organised an interview with a psychiatrist.
The man was diagnosed with hypersexuality and compulsive self-touch problems but didn't seek treatment despite his condition being "reactivated", the court heard.
Instead the man later began a relationship with a woman who was living with two young granddaughters and a teenage girl, a step-grandchild.
"So whilst doing that (compensation application), whilst knowing what was contained in this (psychiatrist's) report your client was sexually offending those three girls?" Judge Vicki Loury asked the defence.
The man's solicitor replied: "Yes, that's true and he doesn't shy away from that.
"Going through the redress scheme and all the interviews and processes reactivated something that hadn't been activated for a very long time.
"It is very, deeply regrettable he was living with a woman who had children at the time."
Nine offences involved one of the girls when aged six and seven.
The man admitted his indecent treatment of the young girls in a series of text messages to a friend, the court heard.
The former partner said the man's breach of trust had a significant, lingering effect on her family in a victim impact statement.
"She writes of feelings of blame that she feels for not protecting the girls," Judge Loury said.
"But in truth she was entitled to trust you. You too should have been protecting these girls.
"You must have known the potential impact on these girls given your own circumstances and your diagnosis."
The man pleaded guilty to all 13 charges including 10 indecent treatment of a child under 12 under care offences.
He was sentenced to 12 months in jail followed by another two years on probation under strict conditions including participating in a sexual offenders program.
