A 30-year-old man, Mohammad Hassan Al Bayati, has been sentenced after taking a three-year-old girl from a playground at a shopping centre in Homebush while working as a security guard.

CCTV showed him leading the child out of view into an area without surveillance, where the offending occurred.
The case went through an appeal and retrial after an earlier conviction was overturned in 2022. He was ultimately found guilty on lesser charges, including detaining a person to gain an advantage and committing an indecent act with a child.

He has now received a four-year prison sentence, with time already served counted toward parole. I hope the boys in the cells are taking good care of him