Pervert preyedon vulnerable teenagers
A pervert sexually assaulted three teenage girls – one of whom was only 14 at the time of the attack.
Paul Balarsky, 20, was convicted by a jury at Glasgow Sheriff Court of four charges of sexually assaulting the three girls – including an incident which took place at a property in Rutherglen.
Balarsky gave the 14-yearold alcohol at his home in Glasgow’s Shawlands in August 2017, when he was aged 16.
He pinned the terrified girl on a bed and attempted to kiss her, before carrying out the assaults.
Balarsky committed similar crimes on a 15-yearold and a 17-year-old girl between April 2017 and November 2018.
The court heard from the then 14-year-old victim who stated that Balarsky jumped on top of her.
Giving evidence, she told jurors: “He tried to kiss me and I didn’t want him to and I tried to move my face to the side and said ‘no’.
“I couldn’t really stop him because I was drunk.”
Balarsky then went on to perform two sexual acts on the girl.
The court heard of an earlier separate incident in which a 15-year-old girl was passed out drunk at a party in
the city’s Pollokshields. A friend put her to bed and checked on her through the night.
Prosecutor Mark Allan said:“What the friend saw was questionable as the accused was seen jumping up saying he wasn’t doing anything.
“She said there was something weird about that.”
Later, in a separate incident when the victim was 16, Balarsky groped the girl twice while she was asleep at the same touched a sleeping 17-year-old girl at a property in Rutherglen.
The startled girl woke up to find her jeans being unfastened.
She said:“He was trying to touch my genitals without consent.”
The girl jumped out of bed and ran out before telling a friend what had happened.
Balarsky sent a text message saying:“I know what I did was awful.
“I’m struggling to comprehend what happened. I need to go to therapy for something like that. It’s my fault, it totally is.
“I have never done anything worse.”
Balarksy told jurors in evidence that some of the matters were as a result of a “misunderstanding”.
He claimed that one of the victims lied.
Sheriff Alan Mackenzie deferred sentence until next month for background reports.
Balarsky was put on the sex offenders register and granted bail in the meantime.