Babysitter sent to jail for abusing boys.

A trusted babysitter who indecently abused two young boys he was looking after has been sentenced to 10 years. Andrew Yorath, known as Blinky, fondled the children as they lay in bed and once asked to have sex with one of the boys, promising it would be quick, Cardiff Crown Court was told.

The 33-year-old, from St David's Crescent, Ely, Cardiff, abused the boys over a 10-year period, but his sickening acts only came to light last summer when one of the victims, now aged 19, told his mother.

One of the boys was abused regularly over four years when he was between six and 10 years old, and the other was abused about eight or nine times when he was aged eight and nine years old.

Yorath pleaded guilty to 10 charges of indecent assault and was sentenced to four years in prison and six years on extended licence when he is released.

In a statement, one of the mothers said her son wakes up with nightmares, screaming 'get off me'.

'I feel angry with myself,' she said. 'I feel let down by someone I trusted. I feel hate and am sickened by Yorath.'

Leighton Hughes, defending, said his client, who had been a victim of abuse himself, had a 'dreadful record' but had no convictions for similar offences.

Judge John Griffith Williams QC told Yorath: 'In both these cases there was a grave abuse of trust on your part. You took advantage of your position of trust.

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Yorath was banned from working with children for life and placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.