A former cub scout chief dubbed a “paedophile hiding in plain sight” has been jailed for 16 years for sexually assaulting kids as younger as seven years previous for the reason that Nineties.
Ian Silvester, of Locks Hill in Portslade, East Sussex, beforehand denied 83 prices of historic sexual abuse in Hove and Worthing.
Silvester, 60, who additionally labored as a babysitter, diving teacher, first help coach and St John Ambulance coach, was discovered responsible of 79 of these prices following a trial at Lewes Crown Court docket in November.
He was sentenced to 16 years in jail with an extra six years on licence on the identical courtroom on Friday.
Sentencing Silvester, choose Christine Laing KC mentioned: “You’re the very definition of a paedophile hiding in plain sight.”
The choose mentioned the defendant had given his victims a “lifetime of disgrace and remorse”, telling the courtroom the abuse occurred so “brazenly and plainly and so usually in entrance of others”.
Affect statements have been learn out in courtroom every describing the confusion and disgrace felt by his victims.
One man who was abused by Silvester mentioned: “You’re a monster who picked probably the most weak in society.”
On units seized from Silvester’s residence have been photos and movies of his victims being assaulted by him in addition to indecent photos of youngsters, on-line chat logs and net searches of sexual curiosity in younger boys.
