Director of Public Prosecutions v Kiddle
[2025] VCC 1603
•31 October 2025
| IN THE COUNTY COURT OF VICTORIA AT MELBOURNE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION | Revised Not Restricted Suitable for Publication |
CR 25-00725
| DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS |
| v |
| JONATHAN KIDDLE |
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JUDGE: | HIS HONOUR JUDGE MOGLIA |
WHERE HELD: | Melbourne |
DATE OF HEARING: | 13 October 2025 and 14 October 2025 |
DATE OF SENTENCE: | 31 October 2025 |
CASE MAY BE CITED AS: | DPP v Kiddle |
MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATION: | [2025] VCC 1603 |
REASONS FOR SENTENCE
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Subject: Criminal law - sentencing
Catchwords: Guilty plea – incitement to rape – stalking – produce intimate image – distribute intimate image – producing child abuse material – punishment – community protection – general and specific deterrence
Legislation Cited: Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 (Vic); Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic)
Cases Cited:
Sentence: Total effective sentence: 9 years 6 months; non-parole period 6 years 5 months; s 6AAA: 11 years; non-parole period 7 years 6 months
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APPEARANCES: | Counsel | Solicitors |
| For the Director of Public Prosecutions | Dr N. Rogers SC | OPP |
For the Accused | M. Brown | VLA |
HIS HONOUR:
1Jonathon Kiddle, you have pleaded guilty to incitement to rape (four charges), stalking (seven charges), producing an intimate image (eight charges), distributing an intimate image (eight charges), producing child abuse material, distributing child abuse material, possessing child abuse material, possessing methamphetamine and LSD, and failing to comply with reporting obligations, all occurring between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024.
2The agreed basis for your guilty plea is set out in the summary of prosecution opening dated 6 October 2025, which is lengthy and detailed. I adopt that summary as an agreed statement of facts.
3In short, during 2024 you variously targeted 16 different women by obtaining their personal details including their images, publishing them online or sending them directly to other people, pretending to be them or their partners inviting sexual encounters, using their images to create AI generated intimate images, or arranging for men to attend their homes or workplaces for sexual encounters, or a combination of these things.
4You also used artificial intelligence software to create pornographic images and footage in the likeness of your victims. You used images of the daughter of somebody you knew, to create AI generated child abuse material.
5On your work laptop, you maintained folders in the names of your victims in which you stored their photos and details, along with other personal information about them.
6I will refer to the victims of your offending by pseudonym initials only and I mean no disrespect to them by doing so.
7You met VA[1] on a Facebook group of people interested in hiking and became her friend. She had given you her phone to obtain an image of her that she wanted you to enhance using your computer skills, but you did more than that, obtaining other images of her and her personal details.
[1] A pseudonym.
8On 26 July 2024 around midday, you arranged for an Uber car to collect a man and take him to VA's address. You had communicated with him by text messages, telling him that you would arrange for him to have sex with women you knew. He arrived at VA's address, met her at her front door, and concerned for her safety because of how he acted, she told him to leave, which thankfully he did (Charge 1, incitement).
9In relation to VB,[2] she was your work colleague and a Facebook friend. She reported to you as her manager. Without her knowledge in July 2024, you arranged for a man to attend the workplace for a sexual encounter with VB. You provided him with a photo of her and AI generated pornographic images in her likeness. In communications with him you told him to pretend that he was there to measure up for a refurbishment of the office. In fact, you met him when he arrived and introduced him to VB and then left them alone, remaining nearby, I interpolate for your own enjoyment. The man became very flirtatious with her, which VB rebuffed. He then spoke to you again before leaving (Charge 2, incitement).
[2] A pseudonym.
10You also stalked VB. You did so by obtaining photographs of her that she had published on social media and using generative AI to create sexually explicit images of her. You pretended to communicate on her behalf, telling men online that she was interested in sex and that they should contact her, which they did, making sexually explicit suggestions. You published or emailed images of her on 104 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her on 28 occasions, overall to about 30 different parties (Charge 7, stalking).
11Unfortunately, perhaps to your gratification at the time, VB complained to you as her manager about these events, thinking you would assist her.
12In relation to VC,[3] she was also your work colleague and reported to you as her manager. You were also her Facebook friend and so had access to images she published on social media, which you used.
[3] A pseudonym.
13On 17 September 2024, you arranged for a man to attend your workplace seeking to have sex with her. You did this by communicating with the man by text and through a website Locanto.com, pretending at different times to be VC or her boyfriend.
14Pretending to be her, you described the sexual acts that she wished to engage in with him at her workplace in explicit detail. You sent him her a photo, along with the address and other details. At the arranged time you sent him a text message, pretending to be VC's boyfriend, telling him then to go into the workplace and meet her. He entered the building and approached her while she was working. You were nearby and monitored what went on for your own enjoyment. He grabbed her and began kissing her without her consent. She pushed him away. Confused, he asked about what her boyfriend had told him about looking for some fun. VC angrily denied any such consent. Thankfully, he apologised and left (Charge 3, incitement).
15You also used generative AI to create sexually explicit images of VC. You published or emailed images of her 111 times and AI generated intimate images of her on 20 occasions, overall to about 30 different people (Charge 12, produce intimate image; rolled up charge).
16In seven online exchanges with different people, you provided AI generated pornography including VC's likeness (Charge 20, distribute intimate image).
17In relation to VD,[4] you were Facebook friends, so to speak, with her, and so had access to photographs she published online. You worked with her father and after he left that employment you had access to his work laptop, from which you obtained other material including a photograph of VD that was not otherwise online publicly.
[4] A pseudonym.
18Between May and October 2024, you stalked VD (Charge 6). You did so by contacting her, publishing information about her or purporting to be from her, causing someone to be near her home loitering, and sending offensive material to her. You published or emailed images of her on 61 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her four times, overall to about 20 different parties.
19To those ends you sent her text messages pretending to be an adult sex industry recruiter, offering her work. You provided her personal details to an actual recruiter, who then contacted her about sex work. You arranged for a man to attend her home and ask for her, and you applied in her name for a job with an airline in her name and using her personal information without her knowledge or consent. You created a Telegram account in her name, using her photograph.
20On 24 September 2024 you arranged for a man to attend her home, as I said, uninvited, seeking sex. You communicated with that man via a chat function on Locanto.com claiming to be VD's partner and that you both consented to sex with him. You sent him her home address and photographs of the location. He attended, spoke to her and when it became clear that the situation was not as you had told him, thankfully, he left (Charge 4, incitement).
21VE[5] is your ex-partner. You stalked her between February and May 2024 by using images of her that you had obtained from your time when you were together (Charge 5, stalking).
[5] A pseudonym.
22During those months in 2024, you published or emailed images of her on 800 occasions and AI generated images of her on 75 occasions. You used her image in advertisements and other online communications on Locanto.com, doublelist.com, adultfriendfinder.com and wifeswapping.com, inviting others to contact you, purporting to be her, for sexual encounters. You purported to be her in applications to employers in the adult sex industry and provided photographs of her. You purported to be her partner in messages to other men inviting them to engage with you both sexually.
23It is of some significance that VE, being your partner at the time of your previous offending in 2011, was involved to an extent in that scenario.
24VF[6] was in the past closely related to you. You offended against her in a most serious matter in 2011, dealt with in this court in 2013. That involved someone entering her home and enacting the conduct you had then in 2011 incited. You were no doubt aware of the extent of harm you caused to her in 2011 because of the 2013 court proceeding. To reoffend against her in this way is most serious.
[6] A pseudonym.
25You published or emailed images of VF on 270 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her 11 times, overall to about 90 different parties. You published her contact details on Locanto.com, in response to which she received messages from unknown persons seeking contact with her (Charge 8, stalking).
26VG[7] was for a time your neighbour where you then lived. During the charged period you had contact with various men and encouraged them to attend VG's home late in the evening, which they did on a number of occasions. They did not stay and they did not interact with those at VG's home (Charge 9, stalking).
[7] A pseudonym.
27In relation to VH,[8] on 17 September 2024 you had contact with a man by text messages. You encouraged him to attend at VH's address, who also lived very near you. You gave him the address and invited him to attend there to meet a woman for sex (Charge 10, stalking).
[8] A pseudonym.
28VI[9] was also a neighbour of yours and so you came to know her in that setting. On multiple nights over a period of weeks you arranged for men to attend at her house asking to meet up with women, for whom they were only given a first name (Charge 11, stalking).
[9] A pseudonym.
29VJ[10] is the partner of a man you knew through a mutual friend. You published or emailed images of VJ on 148 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her on 16 occasions, overall to about 50 different parties (Charge 13, produce intimate image).
[10] A pseudonym.
30You registered an email address with modelling agencies in relation to her and forwarded intimate images (Charge 21, distribute intimate image).
31You obtained images of VK[11] from Facebook from when she was a child of
15-18 years. You published or emailed images of VK on 99 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her 19 times. You used images of her on Locanto.com notices seeking men for sex. You included images of her in emails you sent to at least one man to say that VK was available for sex work (Charge 14, produce intimate image and Charge 22, distribute intimate image).[11] A pseudonym.
32You obtained images of VL[12] from her LinkedIn account. You published or emailed images of VL on 112 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her six times (Charge 15, produce intimate image).
[12] A pseudonym.
33You purported to be VL in emails to at least two men, providing intimate images of her, offering adult sexual services. You used her image on an adult Friendfinder.com account and a Bumble dating app account (Charge 23, distribute intimate image).
34You knew VM[13] from a previous position you held at her business. You obtained images of her that had not been published on the internet. You published or emailed images of VM on 92 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her twice, overall to about 30 different parties (Charge 16, produce intimate image and Charge 24, distribute intimate image).
[13] A pseudonym.
35You obtained images of VN[14] from her social media account. You published or emailed images of her on 104 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her seven times, overall to about 30 different people (Charge 17, produce intimate image, Charge 25, distribute intimate image).
[14] A pseudonym.
36In relation to VO,[15] you were a family friend of hers in years past and had photographs of her taken while on a joint holiday. You offended against her also in the 2011 matter dealt with in this court in 2013, which makes your repeat offending against her more serious.
[15] A pseudonym.
37You published or emailed images of her on 18 occasions and AI generated intimate images of her three times, overall to about six different parties (Charge 18, produce intimate image; Charge 26, distribute intimate image).
38You were a Facebook friend, so to speak, of VP[16] and so had access to photos she had posted online. You emailed images of VP along with images of naked women to men who responded to your advertisements on Locanto.com. You published or emailed images of VP on 77 occasions to about 25 different parties (Charge 19, produce intimate image; Charge 27, distribute intimate image).
[16] A pseudonym.
39In relation to VQ,[17] you knew her father, VR,[18] through a mutual friend. You obtained images of VQ as a child through that contact. Online, while you pretended to be VQ's father, you used images of VQ in applications you made to child casting and modelling agencies on eight occasions. You also used her image to create AI generated child abuse material in her likeness. Some of this material was explicitly sexual involving a child, not VQ, in sexual activity with adults (Charge 28, produce child abuse material).
[17] A pseudonym.
[18] A pseudonym.
40From August to October 2024, you engaged with others online by encrypted messaging application Telegram in explicit sexual chat about child abuse material. You exchanged files that included images and footage of such material. Upon examination of your devices police found 3,850 images and video of child abuse material, representing 1,126 unique such items. They included explicit sex acts involving children, including some children who were visibly distressed (Charge 29, distribute child abuse material; Charge 30, possess child abuse material).
41As part of your offending you used two mobile phone services, six email addresses, and two other online account logins, perhaps more, to publish information about your victims and to contact them, which services and addresses you had not reported to police in accordance with your sex offender registration obligations (Charge 31, failing to report; a rolled up charge).
42On 30 October 2024, police executed search warrants at your work and home addresses and arrested you. They seized various electronic devices, and you complied with their requests for passwords, as required by law. They also found small quantities of methylamphetamine and other drugs that you agreed was yours (Charge 32, possess drug; rolled up).
43The victims of your offending, a number of them, have made victim impact statements. They were VM, VF, VC, VL, VK, VI, VB, VD, VO, VR about your offending against VQ, and VP (Exhibit A). Each of those statements speak eloquently of your betrayal of their trust and the consequences of your offending on them. I will not detail any of the contents of those reports in this sentence, but I accept them in full.
44Your offending has caused these women to question everyday matters that we all take for granted. Their experience of your offending was of personal attacks upon them. Those attacks, as they were perceived and as you intended them, had the capacity and did affect many, if not every, aspect of their day to day lives and the way they trust the people and circumstances in which they live.
45For those involved in the 2011 offending, your offending in this case accentuated the experience they had of that offending and added to it.
46For all of your victims, given the way in which you offended, they can be forgiven for wondering perhaps, when their vulnerability to you will stop. I thank each of them for providing, and their courage in coming forward and giving their account in, those statements and publicly airing the consequences that they have experienced.
Procedural history
47Following your arrest police interviewed you about what they knew at that stage. You candidly admitted to stalking VD and VB for example, possessing and distributing child abuse material, creating and distributing intimate images, using AI to create pornographic images, possessing drugs, and breaching your reporting obligations. You also made admissions relating to the incitement offences and producing child abuse material.
48You admitted to creating false expectations in the men you contacted about the relevant victims consenting to sex with them, if they approached the women. You accepted responsibility for VC being sexually assaulted during one such approach. You confessed that you had attempted to get men to make such approaches about 80-100 times, about half of which you said resulted in the man approaching the victim of your deception.
49You admitted using your position at work and your friendships online with victims, in order to obtain personal information about them that you could use in your offending. At the conclusion of your interview, police remanded you in custody where you have remained since.
50You pleaded guilty prior to any committal proceeding meaning that none of the victims were required for cross-examination. I find that this is a demonstration of your willingness to facilitate the course of justice, which is appropriate, as well as an acceptance of responsibility.
51In all the circumstances, including the material which I am about to address, I accept that you regret relapsing into this kind of offending and that you have expressed remorse, to those treating you. While I accept that a demonstration of remorse does not reduce your risk of further offending, I do accept that a recognition of wrongfulness can play a role in engaging in change.
Personal circumstances
52You grew up as an only child on a farm outside Melbourne. You describe an unexceptional upbringing. You attended school but reported bullying and having few friends. You reported being the subject of sexual assaults by another student in primary school for about a year. After that you moved interstate with your family but found friends hard to maintain due to travel between there and the Victorian farm.
53As you approached Year 12 you became more social, which you had been challenging for you. You then attended university and pursued advanced diplomas in information technology and accounting. Your experience there socially speaking was much better than school.
54Whilst you did not ultimately graduate you started and have maintained full time work since, except for periods when you have been in custody.
55You were at one company for about two years before moving to the position you held at the time of the 2011 offending, where you had remained for about 15 years and worked your way up to being a partner in that company. It was there where you met your first victims.
56In 2013 you were sentenced to six years with a non-parole period of four years on one charge of incitement to rape, and two charges of stalking. You were placed on the Sex Offender Register and required to report for 15 years. The facts in that case were similar in many ways to what occurred in this case.
57Following your release at the end of that sentence, you commenced working at the company I have referred to in relation to these victims, where you engaged in the current offending. At first you were the company's Chief Financial Officer and then advanced to a position of General Manager.
58Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr Rajan Darjee, provided a report on you dated 8 October 2025 (Exhibit 1). He also gave evidence during your plea hearing.
59Dr Darjee conducted well recognised testing on you and I am satisfied that you were candid and realistic in your responses to that testing. I interpolate that you demonstrated insight into your offending and how it came about. You recognised your failings.
60He concluded that you have a moderately severe personality disorder with significant schizoid, borderline, antisocial, narcistic and avoidant obsessive compulsive traits. These are likely to be caused by genetic factors and early life adverse experiences. That is to say, and I accept his opinion, these are not things that you have chosen as an adult, but they are nevertheless embedded in your way of being in the world, which has contributed to your offending substantially.
61Dr Darjee finds that you have a longstanding disconnection between intimacy and sex. While he said you do not have fantasies personally of committing sexual assault or rape, you do have fantasies about setting women up to be put in vulnerable positions, submitting to non‑consensual sexual conduct. This fantasy seems based on you needing or wanting to feel potent, while playing with the lives of others.
62The prosecutor did not dispute this opinion, and I accept it. It seems to have been played out in your offending. These psycho-sexual tendencies, in my view, are very relevant to sentence.
63Your risk, Dr Darjee found, of future offending is high. In order to arrive at that assessment, he used reliable testing methods with which the court is familiar. Neither party disputed that assessment and I accept it.
64Dr Darjee in his evidence during the hearing gave a detailed account of how certain antilibidinal medication could assist in a case such as yours. He said it is proven to be safe if properly monitored and can lead to the effective prevention of the sexual desire to act, including in offensive ways.
65He reported, and your counsel confirmed, your willingness to engage further with that possible treatment. I accept that this demonstrates a willingness to do what is required to manage future risk. However, time will tell whether you do engage in that treatment and how effective it will be.
66Dr Darjee also sets out an alternative pathway to other kinds of treatment, not medication, more closely aligned to what he perceives to be your particular psychological problems. He took a different view to those psychological issues to the previous treaters who dealt with you following the 2013 sentence.
67He stated that those alternative pathways may provide a better chance for change than the previous treatment. Time will tell and I am not expressing an opinion about treatment matters, matters for which I am ill equipped. But suffice to say, I do accept, on the basis of the uncontested evidence of Dr Darjee, that there are opportunities for your rehabilitation and change and that you are not to be considered a lost cause in that respect.
68I note the background material contained in the report of Dr Rachael McKenzie relating to the 2011 matters (Exhibit 2). Dr Darjee referred to that in detail. I have received, read and understand the prosecution opening in 2013 for the previous matter (Exhibit 3).
69I have read material from the Sex Offender Assessment and Treatment Service about you not being suitable for group therapy following your release on parole (Exhibit 4) in relation to the 2013 matter.
70I have read the reports of Dr Bird, who was involved in your treatment during parole throughout 2019 and 2020 (Exhibit 5), and a finalisation report or discharge summary from 2020 by Dr Bird (Exhibit 6).
71In that report Dr Bird indicated that you had engaged very well in treatment, as it was. You continued well beyond the end of your parole voluntarily with the treating team, which I accept demonstrates that when you are drug free and stable, you are able to be committed to change and willing to take steps to ensure repeat offending does not occur.
72Of course, as this case demonstrates, when not stable or drug free such assurance did not bear fruit.
73As for drug use, you started drinking as a teenager, which is unexceptional albeit it involved binge drinking, particularly in your early 20s, and cannabis use. In the lead up to these offences before me however, you had used cocaine, LSD and methamphetamine. You reported tolerance of those drugs developing and so your use escalated in order to experience the same effects.
74I accept that this forms part of the context in which you reoffended, but I do not find that drug use mitigates or reduces the seriousness of what you did, or your responsibility for it.
Sentencing factors
75The maximum penalty for each incitement charge is 25 years' imprisonment, consistent with the maximum penalty for rape. The maximum penalty for stalking, producing possessing or distributing child abuse material is 10 years each. The maximum penalty for failing to comply with reporting obligations is five years. For producing or distributing an intimate image it is three years each. For possessing a drug of dependence, the appropriate maximum penalty is one year in the absence of any suggestion that your possession was related in any way to trafficking.
76Each of the incitement offences involved you encouraging and facilitating a man to approach the victim intending to have sex with her. In this case it is not alleged that during your communication with each of those men, that you encouraged them to rape. Rather, you encouraged them to engage in consensual sex, albeit in circumstances where you said the victim may be putting on an act when they were approached. That act was not in relation to rape.
77You knew however, that there was no basis upon which you believed at any time that the relevant victim would be consenting. In your mind, in arranging these approaches, you contemplated the possibility or indeed fantasised that a rape scenario might play out.
78The prosecutor accepted that the incitement in this case was made out on the basis that the other men were innocent agents of your perverted intention. It is somewhat gratifying that none of the men you incited held, or acted out, any intention to rape.
79This is to be compared to the 2013 case where you sought out men to engage in a rape scenario specifically, although you told them it was part of a rape roleplay. Here, you sought out men to engage in consensual sexual encounters - although they were with elements of role play, they were not rape roleplays. This is not to undermine the seriousness of the risk that you created for the victims.
80I accept that the offending in this case is marginally less serious form of incitement to rape than a case in which an offender explicitly encouraged or facilitated another to engage in rape. Your incitement in this case is nevertheless very serious because of the degree of effort and planning involved in carrying out your plan, that it was a plan enacted against multiple women, and that it placed them at risk of serious sexual offending. In each case, you used your personal knowledge of these women in what must be described as a breach of trust of a most serious kind.
81The stalking offences are also moderately serious examples of that offence and that seriousness varies between the victims. Whilst the conduct you engaged in did not involve direct threats of violence, for example, as is seen in other kinds of stalking, it was repeated and calculated to place these women at risk of being a victim of your fantasies.
82The effect of your stalking was among other things, to undermine their confidence in their own safety at work and home. They were entitled to such confidence, and your conduct deprived them of it for your own personal sexual gratification. You used your victims' personal information and images, including to produce fake intimate images in their likeness, striking at the heart of what has come to be an accepted social norm in internet use in our community.
83True, material posted on the internet, including by way of social media, is largely publicly available and users may be understood to do so at their own risk. Indeed, warnings about the possible misuse of internet material are increasingly given. Nevertheless, offending such as yours represents an intentional perversion of the purpose for which your victims made their images and information available. In that sense, it may be understood as a species of breach of trust. Whilst not a breach of a specific relationship of trust, your conduct involves you taking advantage of your victims' vulnerability in that respect.
84Of course, in some of the circumstances I have set out, you have done more than this. You obtained images of victims that were not publicly available and only available to you because of the relationship you had or workplace that you worked in, or some other private connection. These represent specific breaches of trust and must attract appropriate punishment.
85As for your production, possession and distribution of child abuse material, this conduct must attract stern punishment. Regularly, even for first time offenders, such punishment includes imprisonment.
86Children must be protected from the kind of predation that your offending, perhaps indirectly, represents. I will not sentence you on the basis that you involved any actual children in the abuse that you created images of. Nevertheless, you contributed to and promoted the market for such material by producing, possessing and distributing such material.
87The amount of material involved in this case is not high, or at least not as high as is regularly seen in this court, unfortunately. Nevertheless, the gravity of your conduct here is high in respect of the images of a child you knew were used, and you wilfully peddled that material or that kind of material to others with that knowledge.
88Your failure to comply with reporting obligations was repeated, wilful and related to serious offending. These were not breaches borne of neglect or forgetfulness. Imprisonment therefore will follow.
89General deterrence, that is imposing a sentence in this case that sends a message to others, attracts significant weight in each of the types of offending that I have just described. The sentence I will impose on each of the offences must manifest stern public denunciation and exact just punishment of you.
90You only have one matter by way of a criminal history but it is highly relevant and provides important context within which the seriousness of this case must be assessed. The fact that these current offences are almost identical in nature to that previous matter highlights the importance of the need to specifically deter you from further offending by imprisonment, and the need to protect the community from you, which is clear.
91The principle of totality is also an important consideration in your case, particularly in circumstances of your repeated conduct of a similar nature, based on your central and same fantasies, albeit in relation to different victims. While your offending in relation to each type of offence might be understood as a mere repetition, in different ways, of you acting out on the same single set of fantasies, there must be a due reflection of the impact you have had on each separate victim in the total sentence.
92In compliance with this principle, having set what I believe to be the appropriate sentence in relation to each of the offending against each victim, I have set periods of cumulation and concurrency so as not to give rise to a total sentence that is out of proportion to your overall conduct.
93As to prospects for rehabilitation, two aspects of your case attract particular attention. The first is your offending in 2011, dealt with in 2013 in similar circumstances in relation to two, perhaps three, the third being not directly offended against in 2011, of your current victims.
94The second is the repetitive and persistent nature of your offending in this case. Without ignoring the progress you made in treatment during and following your time on parole, in all the circumstances it can only be said that your repeat offending must lead to a guarded view of your future prospects. Understandably, both counsel agreed that the only appropriate sentence in this case is one of imprisonment, and I agree.
95The only comparable case to which the prosecutor was able to direct me in relation to the incitement was your case of 2013, in which you were sentenced to six years' imprisonment for similar offending against two women. I have already set out an explanation of why I see that as being marginally different to the circumstances of this case, and that will be reflected in the sentence.
96No issue was taken with the submission that that case provided a relevant comparator.
97I sentence you as follows.
98In relation to VA, Charge 1 incitement, three years' imprisonment. That is the base sentence.
99In relation to VB, Charge 2 incitement, Charge 7 stalking, an aggregate of three years and six months, cumulation of nine months.
100In relation to VC, Charge 3 incitement, Charge 12 produce intimate image, Charge 20 distribute intimate image, an aggregate sentence of three years and three months, with six months' cumulation.
101In relation to VD, Charge 4 incitement, Charge 6 stalking, aggregate sentence of three years and six months, with nine months' cumulation.
102In relation to VE, Charge 5 stalking, 20 months' imprisonment with seven months' cumulation.
103In relation to VF, Charge 8 stalking, two years and six months, with one year cumulation.
104In relation to VG, Charge 9 stalking, 18 months with five months' cumulation.
105In relation to VH, Charge 10 stalking, 18 months, five months' cumulation.
106In relation to VI, Charge 11 stalking, 18 months, five months cumulation.
107In relation to VJ, Charge 13 produce intimate image, Charge 21 distribute intimate image, an aggregate of six months with one month cumulation.
108In relation to VK, Charge 14 produce and Charge 22 distribute intimate image, aggregate six months, one month cumulation.
109Regarding VL, Charge 15 produce, Charge 23 distribute intimate image, aggregate six months, one month cumulation.
110Regarding VM, Charge 16 produce, Charge 24 distribute intimate image, aggregate of six months with one month cumulation.
111Regarding VN, Charge 17 produce, Charge 25 distribute intimate image, aggregate of six months, one month cumulation.
112In relation to VO, Charge 18 produce, Charge 26 distribute intimate image, aggregate nine months with three months' cumulation.
113In relation to VP, Charge 19 produce, Charge 27 distribute intimate image, six months' aggregate, one month cumulation.
114In relation to VQ, Charge 28 produce child abuse material, eight months' imprisonment, two months' cumulation.
115In relation to Charges 29 and 30, which do not relate to any particular victim, namely of distribute child abuse material and possess child abuse material, aggregate of 12 months with four months' cumulation.
116Charge 31, failing to report emails and phone numbers and the like, six months' imprisonment.
117Charge 32, possessing drugs, one month imprisonment.
118The total effective sentence is nine years and one month. I fix a non-parole period of six years and five months.
119I declare that you have served 366 days and direct that this be reckoned as a period already served under the sentence.
120In accordance with s6AAA of the Sentencing Act1991, but for your guilty plea I would have imposed 11 years and fixed a non-parole period of seven years and six months.
121I grant the forfeiture order sought unopposed relating to your phones and other devices and drugs.
122On Charges 28, 29 and 30, each of them are class 2 offences under the Sex Offender Registration Act and in accordance with s34(1)(c)(iii) of that Act, you must comply with reporting obligations for the rest of our life. You will be provided with a notice of these obligations this morning and I ask you to sign it to indicate that you have received them. I am not asking you whether you agree with them, although I expect you might.
123After 15 years, following your release and in the absence of any further like offending, you may apply to the Supreme Court for the suspension of those reporting obligations, which may or may not be suspended but only in certain circumstances.
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