Australian paedophile Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, 70 (above) at Bali Police headquarters lured street girls as young as eight with cash and gifts.

Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, who claims he had a “grandfatherly affection” for his victims, lured poor children into his home with gifts and cash.

Promising them clothing, money, trips to the mall and even motorbikes, Ellis enticed at least 11 girls aged between eight and 17 to his home in the central Balinese town of Tabanan.

Inside he would insist on bathing them, slapping them if they refused, and sexually molesting them if they didn’t.

Afterwards, Ellis would pay the girls 200 thousand rupiah ($20). If the girl agreed to spend the night there, she could earn up to two million rupiah ($200).

Arrested in January this year, Ellis has tearfully pleaded that the payments to the girls should equal restitution and he should not be punished with a prison sentence.

Robert Fiddes Ellis (above) is ‘Australia’s worst paedophile’ case in Bali and faces sentencing on Tuesday, although he has dodged the death penalty and castration. Picture: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFPSource:AFP

Paedophile Robert Fiddes Ellis (above) who molested girls when he bathed them, thinks he should avoid jail because he paid the girls after assaulting them.Source:Supplied

Former Victorian detective Glen Hulley (centre) who campaigns against paedophiles in Asia, helped facilitate the arrest of Ellis who he said was the ‘worst by far’ Australian offender in Bali.Source:Supplied

In a bizarre letter to the Denpasar District Court written in the third person, the expatriate Australian wrote “Mr Ellis is not the kind of man who deserves imprisonment”, Fairfax news reported.

“He paid the girls in full immediately after the liberties were taken and the law in full in his 16-week ordeal in the Polda remand cell.”

Because Ellis was arrested in January, he does not qualify for a new law for paedophiles introduced in Indonesia, which has outstripped Thailand and the Philippines as the preferred destination for Australian sex tourism.

In May, Indonesian president Joko Widodo announced, effective immediately, a law which allows judges to impose the death penalty or chemical castration in child rape cases.

The law is not retrospective, however Ellis has complained about the 16-year sentence proposed by prosecutors in his case.

Ellis has cried about his ‘ordeal’ locked up in the Polda police cells in Denpasar (above) where no-one will talk to him.Source:News Corp Australia

Handcuffed and under police escort, Robert Fiddes Ellis is pictured following his January arrest for molesting Balinese children.Source:Supplied

Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, above in court, said he targeted street girls in Bali because ‘my sex instinct was not ministered to in my own country’. Picture: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFPSource:AFP

Ellis has described his incarceration in Polda, the police headquarter’s cells in the Balinese capital Denpasar, as worse for him than others.

“No one dares to come and visit me. I have no hand phone [mobile] contact with anyone,” he wrote.

“My relatives feel I need another more competent psychiatric assessment before being sentenced.

Fairfax news reported that in one letter Ellis wrote that a 16-year sentence was “not God’s law” and that he specifically targeted girls in Indonesia because he couldn’t do so in Australia.

“I am solitary and unmarried and my sex instinct was not ministered to in my own country.

“In all probability my young friends desperately want me returned to them.”

Ellis was arrested in part due to the former Victorian police officer and “paedophile hunter”, Glen Hulley.

Ex cop Glen Hulley with child victims who he is trying to help free from slavery and sexual exploitation in five Asian countries. Picture: Project KarmaSource:Supplied

Pictured in Polda police station soon after his arrest, Robert Fiddes Ellis (right) later complained about harsh treatment in custody.Source:Supplied

Police seized Robert Ellis’s passport when they raided his rented Bali house in January.Source:Supplied

Mr Hulley began campaigning against child trafficking in Asia in 2013, and has since launched Project Watch and Project Karma to bring down sex rings, child slavery and paedophilia in Indonesia, India, Nepal, Philippines and Cambodia.

He described the Ellis case as “by far the worst case I’ve ever seen of an Australian committing this kind of offence in Bali”.

Balinese aid workers say that Ellis targeted street kids whose impoverished parents made them hustle for 50 thousand rupiah ($5) every day.

Ellis’s lawyer told the court that his client apologised to Balinese people and had cried because he had brought shame upon Australia.

He had admitted he was an “advanced paedophile” and suffered from a “chronic illness ... [that was] very difficult to treat”.

Prosecutors told the court Ellis should get 16 years because the number of victims was high and he had damaged the future of Indonesian children.

Ellis, 70, has described himself as an ‘advanced paedophile’ who suffers from a ‘chronic illness’. Picture: Nashyo Hansel.Source:Supplied

A cell at Polda Police Station in Denpasar, Indonesia, where Ellis has been imprisoned since his arrest in January.Source:News Corp Australia