A Kimberley man has been sentenced to five years behind bars after he distributed and possessed child abuse material. Police found more than 20,000 images of children being exploited on one of his devices.
A man in his 50s has been sentenced to five years in jail over the possession and distribution of child exploitation material.A Kimberley man has been sentenced to five years behind bars for possessing thousands of images and videos of child exploitation and distributing some of that material on chat groups online.
In January, he pleaded guilty to five counts of possessing child exploitation material and one count of distributing child exploitation material. Mr McDonald said some of the material received and sent by the man included videos of children being sexually penetrated and children appearing to be filmed with a spy camera.
"It's one thing to possess explicit material for your own sexual gratification, it’s another thing to distribute that in the community," he said.In her sentencing remarks, Judge Linda Black described the offences as "extremely serious" and considered them the "highest category" of that offending.
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