2023-09-15 05:16:00
(CNN) — An Australian teacher who killed his wife In order to start a new life with a teenage student, he was sentenced to one more year in prison for a crime committed when the girl was 16 years old.
Chris Dawson, 75, sat with his head in his hands waiting for Friday’s sentencing from a room at the Long Bay Correctional Complex, south of Sydney, where he is already serving a 24-year sentence for killing his wife, Lynnette. .
Lynnette’s disappearance in the early 1980s became one of Australia’s most intriguing mysteries, confusing police for decades and inspiring a podcast that delved into the whereregardings of the mother, whose body has never been found.
On Friday, Judge Sarah Huggett sentenced Dawson to three years in prison on one count of “carnal intercourse with a child over the age of 10 and under the age of 17” for a sexual act committed in 1980.
The sentence carries a two-year non-parole period, so Dawson will spend one more year in prison before being eligible for parole in August 2041, according to Huggett.
At the time of the offending, Dawson was a teacher aged regarding 32, who took active steps to become the girl’s teacher, pointing at her and telling her she was beautiful, the court heard.
Huggett said Dawson did not use threatening words or behavior “to secure the victim’s consent and silence” but there was a “degree of manipulation and exploitation.”
Dawson knew the girl was having problems at home and told the victim “that what she was doing was indeed something the victim needed and/or would be helpful,” she said.
“The crime was committed on a Friday or Saturday night, when the aggressor took the victim to his parents’ house (…). He told her that his parents were on vacation, that it was night and that there was no one there. home,” Huggett said.
The court heard Dawson and the girl had a lawful sexual relationship for many years following she turned 17 and they later married and had a child.
Their relationship continued despite intense speculation regarding the whereregardings of Dawson’s wife Lynette, who Dawson claims abandoned their family when their children were only two and four years old.
No trace of Lynette Dawson has ever been found despite multiple police investigations and searches, which included digging in the backyard of the couple’s former home on Sydney’s northern beaches in 2018.
Dawson has continued to maintain his innocence, even following being found guilty in 2022 of murdering Lynette sometime around 1982.
During the trial, multiple witnesses claimed to have seen Lynette Dawson in the years since, but Judge Ian Harrison dismissed them as false or erroneous.
Harrison stated that, although the verdict was not supported by direct evidence, he was satisfied with the Crown’s assertion that Dawson had become infatuated with his student, to the point that he saw no other way to be with her than to kill his wife.
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