Paul Douglas Frost, a former MasterChef Australia finalist, was sentenced to 24 years in prison on accusations of sexual abuse of kids.
Judge Sarah Huggett announced the verdict last Thursday at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court, more than four years after Frost’s arrest in September 2019 in Sylvania, according to News.com.au.
Frost, a swimming coach, had previously pleaded not guilty to multiple charges stemming from 11 complainants, all of whom were former students, in the 1990s and 2000s.
However, a jury in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court unanimously found Frost guilty of all 43 offenses included in the indictment.
While in his twenties, the ex-participant of the popular cookery show assaulted ten males and one girl. His youngest victim was perhaps nine or ten years old when the abuse began, and the oldest was molested until she was sixteen.
Frost had showed no remorse for his acts, according to Judge Huggett, discarding character references that presented him as a protector of children.
“There is no evidence that would permit me to find on balance that he is contrite or remorseful,” she said.