A MAN who sexually abused a disabled four-year old girl could be free in just a year, a court heard.
Babysitter Milandu Achaiah, 40, targeted the vulnerable child, who suffers from cerebral palsy, while her mother was out shopping.
He was sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for public protection but was told he could be considered for parole after serving two years behind bars.
And after taking into account time already spent on remand, Achaiah could be released in one year and eight days.
Judge David Richardson recommended he be sent back to the Democratic Republic of Congo after completing his sentence.
Graham Brown, prosecuting, told how Achaiah abused the girl at her home in the Forest Gate area on June 15 last year.
He said: “The girl complained to her mother who later found semen stains on her daughter’s knickers.
“When Achaiah was arrested on August 3, last year, he told detectives he regularly suffered from wet-dreams and that his semen must have got on the girl’s knickers when she climbed on to his bed.”
The Congolese national denied any wrong doing during a trial in June earlier this year, but a jury convicted him of sexual activity with a child after acquitting him of sexual touching with a child.
Judge Richardson said: ‘This was a particularly vulnerable person of four with a disability.
“You abused your position of trust and I believe you pose a significant risk to the public.
“You will be released when the parole consider it can be safely done. If you are to be released you will be subject to conditions on licence for the protection of children from you, which will continue for at least 10 years after your release.”
Judge Richardson also disqualified him from working with children and placed him on the sex offenders register for life.
He added: “Your presence in this country is not conducive to the public good and the public need to be protected so I recommend your deportation.”
Achaiah, whose last known address was in Walthamstow, had originally faced charges of rape, attempted rape and indecent assault, which the Crown Prosecution Service later chose to drop them because of lack of evidence.
