Child porn fantasist who used wife’s internet account hit in police sting



A BRISBANE graphic artist who fantasised about setting up a child trafficking network in Eastern Europe used his unwitting wife’s internet account to converse with worldwide pedophiles, a court heard today.


The Supreme Court in Brisbane heard the man also sent photographs of his teenage daughter and her friend in bikinis to a friend on the web, as well as offering to help a woman “whore” her two young daughters.

Prosecutor Deb Mayall said the man’s activities were uncovered when an anonymous complaint was made to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children alleging a person in Australia was using the internet to offer to supply child pornography.

She said the complaint was traced to an account belonging to the man’s wife.

Ms Mayall said an undercover operator then began engaging with the man on the internet posing as a mother of three children – two daughters and a son.

She said the man discussed his interest in having sex with children and also supplied the operative with child pornography.

Australian Federal Police raided the man’s home at Shailer Park, south of Brisbane, on April 28, 2010, and found pornography on a computer involving children aged from two years to 15 years.

As investigation progressed the man was charged with other offences.

This included conversing with another woman who was a mother of two children and offering to help her “whore” those children.

The man also expressed a desire to set up an Eastern European child sex ring.

Ms Mayall said the man also admitted exchanging child exploitation material – some in the worst category – with overseas pedophiles.

The material included photographs, videos and stories ranging from the least offensive to the most offensive classifications.

The man, 54, who cannot be named because it would identify child victims of crime, pleaded guilty to Commonwealth charges of using the internet to access child pornography, transmitting child pornography and using the internet to offend, on various dates between November 2008 and April 2010.

He also pleaded guilty to a state charge of possessing child exploitation material.

Michael Byrne, QC, for the man, said his client had become involved in the internet when dissatisfied with things in his life and his marriage.

He said psychiatric reports had shown his client was a low risk of reoffending and had undergone rehabilitation.

Justice John Byrne said it was serious and persistent behaviour over an 18 months period.

He said much of the man’s behaviour involved fantasy and after taking mitigating factors into account he would impose a sentence of three and a half years of jail with the man to be released after nine months.

The jail term will be followed by a further two years of probation.

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