"He pushes us to go a little harder or try something new, but he’s always supportive and patient in doing it."
As reported at the time of his sentencing last December, the Australian surf coach Connor Lyons is one of those rare birds, a pedophile who didn’t hide behind a defence of mental illness or abuse or claims of being railroaded.
Lyons, a former WSL surfer who was twenty-seven, was charged with multiple sex crimes against kids and who subsequently pleaded guilty and got himself five years at the top, a helluva lot less than the potential twenty and, y’would’ve thought, the more likely five-to-ten.
All up, Lyons carried thirty-three charges linked to the eight child victims, the crimes happening between 2022 and 2024, with the heaviest charge carrying a possible 20-year sentence.
Crown prozzy Rebecca Marks told the court the offences happened during the kids’ surf lessons, a family holiday and on a camping trip. Connor Lyons told detectives that his intent was to gauge their interest and to normalise the behaviour for them.
“One victim impact statement makes reference to how he [Lyons] had made him feel … and the innocence of not understanding what the defendant was doing to him and how it has broken something inside him,” Marks told the court. “It makes references to that child suffering nightmares and waking up scared shaking and crying.”
The judge said it was Connor Lyons’ cooperation with police that toned down his possible sentence.
“As you must know your crimes are serious and as a community we will not tolerate those who predate on children for the purpose of sexual pleasure,” Judge Cash said.
Anyway, with time served, Connor Lyons has been eligible for parole since June, which is kinda wild I think.
The marathon runner Flinders Cobley, who is running the length of the Australian east coast to raise awareness of pedophiles, lights up on ol Connor in this reel below.
There’s still a website for booking surf lessons with Connor Lyons, $120 for an hour one-on-one or he’ll do four kids at once for a reasonable $220.
As one reviewer notes, “He pushes us to go a little harder or try something new, but he’s always supportive and patient in doing it.”
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Unlucky – if he were in the US trump would pardon him
so the verdict was reduced to assaulting other surfers?
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Hilarious how red necks hate pedophiles but are happy for their own kids to die of human caused climate change.
TLDR but meant for comedy, not politics.
“Chemical castration can lower testosterone levels and sexual drive, but whether these biological effects reliably translate into fewer sexual offences or a lower risk of reoffending is less certain.
The Hastings Center for Bioethics in the US said that testosterone levels have been found to correlate with the risk of both committing violent crimes and reoffending.
Some research has suggested that chemical castration may reduce reoffending. British Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood cited studies showing that chemical castration can lead to a 60 per cent reduction in reoffending”
Connor Lyons should be subject to mandatory chemical castration therapy if given parole –
Most sensible thing would be to feed this guy to sharks.
Second most sensible thing would be creating a governing body of surf instrutors to regulate insanity like this, as well as the inevitable territorial disputes that come with a unregulated craft limited by geography.
Free market be dammed. With the recent revelations that surf instructors are more likely to get trim as a result of their job/status/interactions with female customers then BJJ instructors, to avoid the inevitable backlash the industry must form a united front before protests and violence “pops up”
But seriously, tie this guy to a ski and use him to lure big fish away from the crowd.
I’d be more than happy to fly over to Oz when he gets out and give him a ride home. Probably take the scenic route.
“$120 for an hour one-on-one or he’ll do four kids at once for a reasonable $220.”
Hmmmmmm.
Beat me to it.
You guys have it all farked up down there. This guy would have had trouble making it out of lock up with his limbs still intact here.
There’s a time and place for everything and this cunt will find out what that means in the near future I’d suggest.
Meaning Trump will hire him?