The former deputy mayor Frank Pardon is jailed for indecently assaulting a young teenage girl over several months in the 1990s.
Noosa councillor and former deputy mayor Frank Pardon will serve at least 18 months in jail after being found guilty of indecently assaulting a teenage girl in the 1990s.
"What you did was to allow your sexual interest in the complainant to overcome the realisation that what you were doing was seriously wrong," Judge Cash said. The acts occurred before Pardon was elected to council, he was charged over the offences in early 2017. "He pursued her … acted to have a sexual relationship with her, she was too young to understand what was happening," he said.
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