A blind piano tuner who groped and even licked the faces of female
social workers helping him has been jailed for 21 months.
A court
how Gerald Masters, 66, subjected women to a ‘campaign’ of sexual abuse
while they assisted him both at work and socially.
Masters has been blind for
almost a decade due to diabetes, and employed women to help him with his
business.
One woman complained that
he started making sexual comments towards her even as he interviewed her.
This woman told Bristol
Crown Court how she thought about refusing the job, but needed the money so
accepted it.
She went on to describe how Masters would hug her and bury his
face into her chest.
Other carer applicants
told of how Masters would ask to touch them to ‘see what they looked like’.
Another victim said:
‘He would ask me what I was wearing. It went from that to what underwear I was
wearing.
‘Was I wearing stockings
and suspenders? I was quite shocked.’
Masters even groped one
woman’s breasts before asking her to perform a sex act on him, and put his
tongue in another’s ear and on her face.
In his defence the piano
tuner claimed one of the women had made sexual advances towards him, however
the court was unconvinced.
Sentencing Masters to
21 months in prison and handing him a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention order,
Judge Mark Horton told him: ‘This was a campaign of sexual assault against four
different women – four different women who fought off your advances and attempted
to tolerate you acting out your fantasies sexually on them.’
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