An Adelaide pedophile who sexually abused two young brothers has been jailed for more than six years and has been refused home detention.
Vivian Frederick Deboo faced the District Court today after pleading guilty to multiple counts of indecent assault and gross indecency against the pair in the 1990s.
The 74-year-old's bail was revoked last week but his lawyers had asked that he be allowed to serve his sentence in his Adelaide home.
Judge Simon Stretton ruled against such an option, declaring there was still an "appreciable" risk of Deboo reoffending.
Judge Stretton told Deboo he had taken advantage of a relationship of trust he had constructed with the family of his victims.
"Your actions have, as is so often the case, significantly adversely affected the lives of many," the judge said.
"To say that your offending is serious is an understatement."
Deboo was previously jailed for two years in the mid-1990s for the sexual abuse of three other boys but the brothers, who knew Deboo through their Baptist church, did not come forward until 2015.
Judge Stretton jailed him for six years and seven months with a non-parole period of five years and three months.
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