Indian masseur abused 61 women, jailed for 13 years in Australia

In Australia, an Indian man in Adelaide has been sentenced to 13 years and 10 months behind bars after pleading guilty to 97 offences, including multiple charges of aggravated indecent assault and indecent filming that involved 61 victims. 39-year-old Sumit Satish Rastogi was working at a massage parlor though he was not qualified for the job. And he committed the offences between October 2021 and July 2022 when he was arrested. Rastogi was working at a massage parlour in Glenelg, in Adelaide's western suburbs, when he committed the offences between October 2021 and the time of his arrest in July 2022.

According to ABC News, Judge Carmen Matteo detailed each of the 97 offences committed by Rastogi over nine months during the sentencing. "In one way or another, you violated 61 women who were trusting, unsuspecting and entitled to safety, respect and dignity," she said. "You abused their trust and treated them with an utter lack of respect and dignity when you touched them sexually and or took images which intentionally captured parts of their body which was their right to keep private and unexposed. "Your offending conduct was regular and, at times, prolifi," the judge observed. The judge has thrown the book at a bogus Glenelg massage therapist who sexually assaulted 61 female clients, one of whom was pregnant.
"Every invasive image you took involved a gross breach of trust and was entirely unacceptably exploitative and when you couple that conduct with physical sexual interference, your conduct took on another level of depravity and insult to your victims. "By June and July 2022, I would characterise your offending against client victims as being out of control and showing no signs of restraint until the moment you got caught." The judge said she took into consideration the diagnosis of Rastogi's psychiatrist that he had voyeuristic disorder. "He is of the opinion you meet the diagnostic criteria for voyeuristic disorder because over a period of six months you experienced concurrent and intense sexual arousal from observing unsuspecting semi-naked women," she said.
Outside court, one of his victims said she was "happy" with the penalty imposed against Rastogi and that she wanted to encourage other victims of sexual assault to speak up. "No-one spoke out sooner, everyone knew it felt wrong and we all left just thinking that was a bit strange, but no-one actually said anything," the woman, who asked not to be named, said.  Rastogi will be deported from Australia once he has served the entirety of his sentence.