Man who befriended teenage boy by replacing his stolen bicycle is jailed for sexual assault A "GOOD Samaritan" who befriended a teenage boy by replacing the boy's stolen bicycle after reading about the theft in a local newspaper has been jailed for sexually assaulting the boy and two of his friends. Leonard Charles Fatchen, a former council worker, struggled to sign court paperwork this morning because his hand was shaking so badly in the moments before Judge Gabriele Cannon jailed him for ten months. Judge Cannon told Fatchen that while there was not enough evidence to say his sex crimes were premeditated, he had certainly acted in an opportunistic and "somewhat predatory" fashion. She told Fatchen his crimes had a real lasting and devastating effect on his three victims, who were teenagers when Fatchen sexually abused them. Fatchen, now aged 60, pleaded guilty in the County Court to four counts of indecent assault committed on the three teenage boys between July 1983 and April 1985. During a previous plea hearing, prosecutor Patrick O'Halloran had said that on a date in 1983 a local newspaper published the story about the 13-year-old victim's bike being stolen. Fatchen, then aged 30, took the 13-year-old boy on a trip to Traralgon to collect two bikes for the victims" family. Fatchen also indecently assaulted two of the teenage boys" friends on separate occasions in bedrooms. Fatchen was jailed in the late 1980s for separate sexual offences committed on young people while working as a boys" camp leader, Judge Cannon said today. He completed sex offender programs while in jail last time and while on parole. Fatchen had not committed any sex crimes since he was last released from jail. In her sentencing considerations, Judge Cannon took into account the fact that Fatchen was the sole full-time carer of his ill wife.