Gary Michael Johnstone |
By: Ryan Lee Hall
(Scroll down for video) A man received two years in prison after he encouraged a mother to take inappropriate photos of her young daughter.
An Australian man pleaded guilty to several offenses, including access to child pornography and making it available to others online.
The court heard that Gary Michael Johnstone, 54, had email conversations with a woman and asked her to take sexually explicit pictures of her daughter and send it to him. Sadly, the mother complied. She took the photos and sent it to Johnstone, who then made it available to other child predators.
In one email, Johnstone wrote to the mother: “Well you’re amazing. I’ve never heard of or seen a woman who would do this with their daughter.”
Johnstone also contacted an 11-year-old from Sydney, through an Internet chat room, with sexually explicit questions and encouraged her to send him pictures of herself.
Police could not locate the girl but found evidence of the online conversation when they raided the house of Johnstone and analyzed his computer equipment. His computer also had 658 images and 33 videos of child pornography, according to court proceedings.
“I am shocked that a mother could do such a despicable thing to her own child, and then share the photos with a random man on the internet,” Lauren Jackson, 46, a mother of two daughters told YourJewishNews.com.
Johnstone’s lawyer claimed that it all began when he developed depression after the death of his mother in 2000. Johnstone felt socially isolated as he was never married or had a girlfriend.
He has been diagnosed in the early stages of multiple sclerosis.
In the past, Johnstone had sought treatment for his sexual attraction to children, according to court proceedings. The judge said the crime warranted an immediate prison sentence.
Judge Cuthbertson sentenced Johnstone to two years in prison,
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