A career sex criminal whose latest offence involved a six-year-old Sydney girl will be released when his minimum jail term expires in January.
The 23-year-old man has spent most of the last ten years in custody for a range of offences, many of them sexual.
In the District Court in Sydney on Tuesday, Judge Anne Quirk sentenced him to a minimum two years and nine months for the 2011 kidnap and indecent assault of the six-year-old girl.
With time already served, he will become eligible for parole on January 8 next year.
She also ordered his release on that date.
"You know little about women ... and you don't know how to approach girls," Judge Quirk told the court.
"You will be released in January."
She handed him a total sentence of four years and three months.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, gave a thumbs-up gesture to the only member of the public attending the proceedings.
In February 2011, the girl and a boy were playing on the balcony of her family's Westmead home, in Sydney's west, when their ball went over the railing and landed in an open garden area.
When they went to retrieve the ball, he distracted the boy before pulling the victim into the building's car park.
She told police he took down her pants and underwear and indecently assaulted her.
He also asked her to perform oral sex on him, saying "Don't worry", the court heard, before she ran to her father crying.
The man left the area but was later apprehended after robbing a petrol station the next day, telling the staffer, "Sorry brother".
He pleaded guilty to the armed robbery and was later convicted by a jury to three charges of kidnapping and indecent assault.
He started offending at age 13, when he indecently assaulted a teenage girl on a train.
The court heard he masturbated in front of a female youth worker and did the same on a separate occasion in front of a female solicitor.
Both incidents happened while he was in juvenile detention.
In another incident, he entered a woman's car and performed the same lewd act.
Judge Quirk labelled his behaviour "exhibitionist and immature".
Other prior offences included robbery and drug possession.
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