The mother of a victim of a cycling pervert has spoken out to voice her anger at the sentence he received for molesting three young girls in Blackburn town centre.
Blackburn Magistrates' Court was told earlier this month how Michal Svatek had groped the young girls as he cycled past them.
Svatek, 34, was only caught when the father of one of the victims detained him until police arrived.
Later the Czech national, who pleaded guilty to three offences of sexual assault on a female, was given a 36-week suspended prison sentence with a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement.
He was also made subject to sexual offender registration requirements for 10 years and a sexual harm prevention order for five years.
The suspended sentence means that if he offends again in that timeframe, he could be sent to prison to serve the sentence, plus any further time for the second offence.
But the mother of one of his victims insists Svatek's punishment was "disgusting".
She has also asked why he has not been deported back to Czechia and asked what more he would have to do to be removed from the UK.
She added: "The sentencing these creeps get (is) a joke. Meanwhile, my daughter has to look over her shoulder whilst shopping in our town in broad daylight."
Svatek, of Whalley New Road, Blackburn, was said to have found what he did "funny" and denied having a deviant sexual interest in teenage girls.
Prosecutors said two of the girls groped by Svatek were aged 14 and one 16.
They had all been either slapped on the bottom or had their bottom grabbed by the defendant as he cycled past them.
District Judge Alexandra Preston, passing sentence, said: "You did so in a way that was clearly sexually motivated and also in a way which was so public it was bound to cause them humiliation.
“Your behaviour would have caused them significant distress.”
The district judge also told him he was in denial about being a sexual predator.
The court heard Svatek had been living in the UK for around 10 years but there was still uncertainty about his immigration status.
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