A man who followed an eight-year-old girl and her mother around a Hamilton Walmart and then grabbed the girl’s buttock has been spared jail.

At the Hamilton courthouse, Steven Allaby, 45, from Hamilton, received an 18-month conditional sentence, which is akin to house arrest, followed by three-years’ probation.

The court heard how surveillance footage from the department store shows him following two young girls, in each case positioning himself so he could look at them from behind.

He followed one girl into the underwear section on that day, Oct. 15, 2023, and stood at the end of the aisle and watched her.

Allaby then focused on his second victim, who was pushing a shopping cart while her younger sister and mother shopped in front.

After positioning himself behind the girl and checki

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