Joshua Olding: Masturbating meth addict who terrorised Aussie Broadband call centre pleads guilty
Masturbating meth addict who terrorized a call center by calling repeatedly while doing himself a favor admits ‘it’s a disease’
- Joshua Stephen Olding, 32, pleaded guilty
- Meth addict admitted he had an ‘illness’
A meth addict who masturbated and breathed heavily over the phone to female call center workers over an 18-month period has admitted “it’s a disease.”
Joshua Stephen Olding, 32, from Summerhill in Tasmania, pleaded guilty this week in Launceston Magistrates Court to eight charges of using a carriage service to threaten, harass or cause offense.
Olding’s despicable behavior included a total of 25 calls to Internet service provider Aussie Broadband between July 2020 and May last year.
Joshua Stephen Olding (pictured), 32, from Summerhill in Tasmania, told police he was ‘sick’ but insisted he hung up when a man’s voice was recorded because he was ‘not gay’
On eight of those occasions, a female call center employee answered, after which Olding began “breathing heavily” and “making noises that indicated he was masturbating,” according to The Mercury.
Any doubt as to what he was up to was dispelled as he ended the calls with the phrases “oh, I’m coming” and “that felt good.”
Olding hung up on the 17 times a man’s voice answered the phone.
The pervert was questioned by the police last December after the calls were traced to his number.
Olding admitted to officers that he “had a problem” and was “usually drunk” when he called, and hung up when a man answered because he “isn’t gay.”
Olding pleaded guilty this week in Launceston Magistrates Court to eight charges of using a coach service to threaten, harass or cause offense
“It’s a disease,” Olding told police, as the prosecutor told the court.
It’s unclear why he targeted Aussie Broadband with his sick calls, as he doesn’t have any form of broadband.
Attorney Andrew Lonergan said his client was “deeply remorseful and ashamed” of his conduct.
He said his client lived with mental illnesses, including schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, and had been exposed to methamphetamine while living on the street after getting into a fight with his family five years ago.
Magistrate Ken Stanton delayed his decision on the sentence until June 27 to allow the commission to prepare a pre-sentencing report on the defendant.
He also pleaded guilty to two separate assault charges.