A 69-year-old man walked free from court after being found guilty of six counts of indecent assault against girls under 14.
Instead Patrick Oprey, formerly of Greenlands, Redditch, was given a three-year community rehabilitation order at Worcester Crown Court on Friday.
The order means he will have to undertake counselling.
The offences were said to be ''historic''.
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