Overview
- NSW District Court sentenced the 69-year-old to three years in prison with a non‑parole period of 18 months, backdated to November 2024, making him eligible for parole on May 11, 2027.
- Judge Miiko Kumar found Goldberg knew the 32-year-old client was not consenting and labelled the offending a serious breach of therapeutic trust.
- The assault occurred during a two-hour massage in October 2023 in Goldberg’s Dover Heights home studio after the client sought a Lomi Lomi treatment she had heard praised on radio.
- A court-released transcript of a police-arranged call captured Goldberg acknowledging digital penetration and apologising after the victim confronted him.
- In fixing sentence, the judge weighed his prior good character, age, family hardship and rehabilitation prospects against the gravity of the crime and the victim’s ongoing harms detailed in her impact statement.