On a Friday night in 1988, Michael*, who was 13 years old when he was sexually abused by Goldsmith, sat hidden in bush and holding a loaded rifle at the top of the driveway of Goldsmith's Port Sorell home.

For up to an hour he waited for his tormentor to return home from work, but was frightened away when a car turned into the street.

He ran home, where he shook with emotion for hours in disbelief that he had almost committed murder.

``If someone gets murdered, they move on to a better place if you believe it,'' Michael said.

``A paedophile takes your soul away. For the rest of your life, you are sort of like a zombie.''

Goldsmith, 67, was paroled in 2010 after serving four years of his six-and-a-half-year sentence for a string of sex crimes, most of which took place when he was an athletics coach at Marist College in the 1970s and 1980s.

The supervision period of his parole ends this June.

Michael is afraid that Goldsmith will offend again.

Goldsmith was found guilty in 2005 of 42 sex offences committed against 20 boys, aged 13 to 16, between 1976 and 1987.

Michael said this conviction was just the ``tip of the iceberg''.

He believed Goldsmith may have been offending from 1987 until the day he was extradited from Western Australia in 2004 to face paedophilia allegations in the North-West.

``Those people involved in his court case were the only people prepared to come forward,'' Michael said.

``There would easily be hundreds (of offences) that he committed.

``I was in that next generation of abused kids, in 1984 to 1986, well after his school days.

``I was one of few kids that the Federal Police managed to track down.

``I can name 21 other guys, and as far as I know there is only me and another guy that signed sworn statements.

``The others just don't want to do it, whether it is because they are not prepared to deal with their emotions, or drag it back up in their lives, I don't know.''

Michael, like many other boys, fell for Goldsmith's charm after meeting him through the local golf club.

``He made himself appear to us as someone to look up to, an idol - someone to aspire to be like, or just like, so you do things for them,'' he said.

``You wouldn't be able to pick him from anyone else in the public as a paedophile.

``He used to give us the belief that he was someone big.

``I suppose that you would call him a manipulator. All paedophiles are crafty and target the weak.

``To prey on youth is one thing but to prey on those not as assertive as others is another thing.''

The friendship involved drinking sessions at Goldsmith's Rice Street home, followed by overnight stays.

``It started through him giving you lifts home, then you would start to drive his car, sitting on his knee,'' Michael said.

``You would go to his home. There would be smokes, grog, cards, and things led off from there.

``If you lost a game of cards, you'd have to show him your personal parts or do something else.

``He slowly worked on you.''

Michael's abuse started at 13 for two years.

``I would perform sexual acts on him, and him on me - oral sex on each other, I would have to masturbate him and he would masturbate me.

``Then he would sometimes jump into bed with you at night and fondle you.

``As time went on, emotionally you got worse, and you want to stop it but you don't.

``At the time, you knew it was odd but you didn't know any better. You were young with no sexual experience.

``You think it was what everyone else does growing up through puberty. You think this is what young blokes do with grown-ups.

``It was only when he wanted sexual intercourse that I knew something was wrong.''

Federal Police tracked Michael down in regional NSW, where he had been living since 1991, and left with a sworn statement that would later help convict Goldsmith.

``It was pretty gut-wrenching - when you start talking about it, you realise it is something you can never really get over,'' he said.

``I was relieved that something was being done.

``A paedophile victim suffers for the rest of their lives.

``You question your own sexuality and whether you might be inclined to become a paedophile yourself.

``I attempted suicide at 20, started taking drugs at 15. My education went from near the top to the bottom of the grade.

``At the time, I didn't know what was wrong with me.''

(*Not his real name)