Coach pleads guilty to paying boys for underage sex A Judge has hit out at the size of waiting lists for sex offender programs. A JUDGE has hit out at the size of waiting lists for sex offender programs after a junior cricket coach paid young boys he met online for sex while waiting for the "vital" treatment program. County Court Judge Liz Gaynor said Brett Chatterton, 37, continually inquired about when he could start the ­program, which a psychologist deemed vital to decreasing the risk he posed to the community, but a place was not ­available until more than a year after his October 2011 prison release. "It is of great concern to these courts that funding of vital programs are so sufficiently meagre that unacceptable delays... are now commonplace," Judge Gaynor said. She said it was hard to see how the ultimate aims of rehabilitating offenders and protecting the community could be achieved when the program was so inaccessible. During 2012, Chatterton repeatedly communicated with boys he met on a gay teen website, received naked images from them and performed lewd acts on webcam. The Melton man met up with a 13-year-old boy, 13, three times in a park behind his secondary school, paying him $450 to perform sexual acts, and paid a 14-year-old boy he met in a toilet block for sex. Chatterton was planning to meet a 14-year-old boy, 14, in a hotel when an 18-year-old man he tried to get involved passed his details to police, who arrested him. He told psychologist Dr Matthew Barth he targeted underage children because they were less likely to challenge his fragile self-esteem. Chatterton pleaded guilty to one charge of using a carriage service to transmit indecent communications to a person under 16 on 21 occasions; five charges of sexual penetration of a child; one charge of using a carriage service to procure a child; and one charge of possessing child pornography. He also admitted to breaching a suspended sentence and a community-based order and furnishing false information in relation to the sex offender register. The judge aid: "The sex offenders program, that is the component most likely to reduce your risk of reoffending, was simply not available to you and its absence, in my view, goes some way to explaining your reoffending."She restored his 11-month suspended sentence, which he has already served in pre-sentence detention, and said Chatterton would be released in three months and placed on a community corrections order for three years. Judge Gaynor said Chatterton should be pushed to the top of the waiting list for the sex offender program, rather than beginning at the bottom again. "In a perfect world, of course, you would step out from jail and immediately begin attending these programs," she said. If this does not happen, and even if it does, it is important that you bear in mind that you have responsibility for your actions.