Former MP guilty of sex crimes against 12-year-old girl in Tasmania

Terry Martin

Former Glenorchy Mayor Terry Martin leaves the Hobart Supreme Court. Picture: Sam Rosewarne
Source: The Mercury





UPDATE 5.20pm: AN EX-MP found guilty of sex crimes against a girl, 12, prostituted by her mother admits hiring male prostitutes.


Terry Martin, a former Glenorchy mayor and former member for Elwick in Tasmania’s Legislative Council is behind bars after being found guilty of having sex with a person under the age of 17 and of producing child exploitation material, The Mercury reports.

Martin is expected to be sentenced next week by Justice David Porter.

Jurors could not reach a verdict on the third charge of sexual assault, and the charge against him was dismissed.

During sentencing submissions today, Martin has also admitting hiring male prostitutes.

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Martin, 54, had faced one count of indecent assault, one of underage sex and one of producing child exploitation material.

Martin was one of 100 men who had sex with a 12-year-old girl prostituted by her own mother and her mother’s partner Gary John Devine in September, 2009.

Both of them are now serving jail sentences.

Martin admitted he had oral sex with the girl on two occasions at his Claremont home and at the makeshift brothel Devine provided in the form of his Glenorchy unit in Chapel St.

Martin also admitted that he took sexually explicit photographs of her.

But Martin denied he was guilty of any crime because he believed the girl was 18, as advertised in the newspaper ad he responded to.

Martin told police he “couldn’t think of anything more disgusting” than having sex with a 12-year-old.

Today, during pre-sentence submissions in the Supreme Court Martin admitted to hiring a transexual male prostitute and male prostitute.

During the trial he said he had been addicted to sex workers and had spent $150,000 on them over two years.

He said medication prescribed for his Parkinson’s disease had dramatically increased his libido.

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