A Customs officer pleaded guilty yesterday to two sexual assaults on girls, one just last month and the other in 1985.

Glen O'Neil Alban, 40, of Sandys Parish was charged for the older incident under the old Criminal Code's lesser charge of indecent assault.

But an amendment in 1993 introduced the charges of serious sexual assault, sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a young person.

Alban also admitted sexual exploitation, touching a girl under the age of 16 for a sexual purpose for the offence which occurred between June 1 and July 6.

He was arrested on July 12 and the next day was charged while in Police custody for the 1985 incident.

He stood with his head bowed yesterday only speaking to admit the offences.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner granted lawyer Marc Telemaque's request for psychiatric and social inquiry reports to be done before sentencing on August 30. Mr. Warner released the man on $3,000 bail with one surety on each count.

There is also a condition of no contact with either victim. Crown counsel Graveney Bannister said the schoolgirl told her mother about the four attacks one night during June.

The man either invited her to look at his privates or tickled her and then rubbed his hands on her privates over her clothes or shoved his hands down her pants.

Each time the girl resisted his attention and he forbade her from telling anyone. She told her mother on July 6.

When Police went to his home to arrest him he said: "I know what this is about.'' Mr. Bannister said the other victim, now 23, told her mother in 1998 about similar incidents, saying she had never come forward "because she thought she could forget it''.

The attacks took place at his home and at her grandmother's when she was eight years old.

She told Police he would hold her hand and eventually put it inside his pants, moving it around in a circular motion and breathing heavily.

On another occasion he put her hand in his pants and there was an "up and down movement''. He also told her not to be afraid.

Mr. Bannister said the man eventually admitted the offences.