A meth addict who masturbated and breathed heavily down the phone to female call centre operators over an 18-month period has admitted ‘It’s a sickness’.
Joshua Stephen Olding, 32, from Summerhill in Tasmania, this week pleaded guilty in Launceston Magistrates Court to eight charges of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
Olding’s despicable behaviour involved ringing internet provider Aussie Broadband a total of 25 times between July 2020 and May last year.
Joshua Stephen Olding (pictured), 32, from Summerhill in Tasmania, told police he had a ‘sickness’ but insisted he hung up when a male voice answered because he ‘isn’t gay’
On eight of those occasions, a female call centre operator answered, at which point Olding would start ‘heavy breathing’ and ‘making sounds that indicated he was masturbating’, according to The Mercury.
Any doubt about what he was up to was dispelled by him ending the calls with the phrases ‘oh, I’m going to come’ and ‘that felt good’.
Olding hung up on the 17 occasions when a male voice answered the phone.
The pervert was interviewed by police in last December after the calls were traced to his number.
Olding conceded to officers that he ‘had a problem’ and was ‘usually intoxicated’ when he made the calls, hanging up when a man answered because he ‘isn’t gay’.
Olding this week pleaded guilty in Launceston Magistrates Court to eight charges of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence
‘It’s a sickness,’ Olding told police, as relayed by the prosecutor to the court.
It is unclear why he targeted Aussie Broadband with his sick calls given he not have any form of broadband.
Defence lawyer Andrew Lonergan said his client was ‘acutely remorseful and embarrassed’ by his conduct.
He said his client lived with mental illnesses including schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder and was introduced to methamphetamine while living on the street after he fell out with his family five years ago.
Magistrate Ken Stanton delayed his decision on sentence to June 27, to enable the commission of a pre-sentence report on the defendant.
He also pleaded guilty to two separate assault charges.
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