A Victorian yoga instructor who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl while her mother was on another mat about one metre away has been jailed.
Chandra Bhoga, 47, hosted the girl and her mother, who cannot be named, at his Tarneit home, in Melbourne's west, for a yoga class in July 2018.
After the girl complained of breathing troubles and congestion, Bhoga gave the mother a range of poses to complete while he moved closer to her daughter.
The father-of-two then twice sexually assaulted the 15-year-old by touching her under her bra and underwear.
He also grabbed her wrist and tried to make her touch his penis. When she resisted, Bhoga asked her: "You aren't feeling comfortable?"
The 15-year-old said "no".
"You are feeling a bit tense," he told her as the class finished.
"We will continue this another time."
Bhoga, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually assaulting a child under 16, on Friday faced the Victorian County Court, where he was sentenced to four years in prison.
He must serve at least one year and seven months before being eligible for parole.
Judge Frank Gucciardo said the 47-year-old had demonstrated "bare-faced manipulation" by abusing the girl during a yoga class at his home after winning the trust of her mother.
"The violation of a child's physical integrity by an adult is not just shameful and abhorrent to the community, but also leaves longstanding damage and trauma, which blights lives for years," Judge Gucciardo told Bhoga.
"This offence is particularly egregious, committed in the presence of the child's mother.
"Your moral culpability is high (and) your conduct is reprehensible, motivated by sexual gratification."
The girl's mother previously said her daughter had suffered a "blight of anxiety" since the abuse, as well as the loss of "sleep and serenity".
Bhoga has already served one month in custody.
