Director of Public Prosecutions v Membrey

Case

[2023] VCC 802

12 May 2023


IN THE COUNTY COURT OF VICTORIA

Revised Not Restricted

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AT MELBOURNE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION

CR 22-00909

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

v

CHRISTOPHER MEMBREY

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JUDGE: HIS HONOUR JUDGE CARMODY
WHERE HELD: Melbourne
DATE OF HEARING: 19 April 2023
DATE OF SENTENCE: 12 May 2023
CASE MAY BE CITED AS: DPP v Membrey
MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATION: [2023] VCC 802

REASONS FOR SENTENCE

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Subject:  CRIMINAL LAW – Sentence

Catchwords:  Use carriage service to transmit child abuse material; use carriage service to access child abuse material; possess or control child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service; degrading, forceful and humiliating sexual acts on children

Legislation cited:  Crimes Act 1914; Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual

Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Act 2020;

Casescited:  Worboyes v The Queen [2021] VSCA 169; Rossi v The Queen [2021] VSCA 296;

Sentence:  Convicted and sentenced to four years’ and three months’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of two years’

and six months imprisonment.

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APPEARANCES: Counsel Solicitors

For the Director

Mr J. Manning

Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions

For the Accused

Mr S. Norton (Plea)

Mr T. Shocker (Sentence)

Stary Norton Halphen

HIS HONOUR:

1Christopher Membrey on 19 April 2023 at the County Court here in Melbourne you pleaded guilty to the following charges on case number CR-22-00909:

Charge1:    Used a carriage service to  transmit child  abuse  material between 21 September 2019 and 19 June 2020.

Charge2:    Caused child abuse material to be transmitted to yourself by using a carriage service between the 17 October 2019 and 19 June 2020.

Charge3:    Used  a carriage  service  to access child abuse material between  21 September 2019 and 22 June 2020.

Charge4:    Used a carriage  service  to  transmit child  abuse  material between 5 July 2020 and 17 April 2021.

Charge5:    Used  a carriage  service  to access child abuse material between    6 July 2020 and 22 February 2021.

Charge6:    Possessed child abuse material which was obtained by using a carriage service on 23 April 2021.

2The 23 April 2021 was the day of your arrest for these offences.

3Each of these Commonwealth offences has a maximum penalty of 15 years imprisonment.

4You have signed a certificate under s16BA of the Crimes  Act  1914 admitting to the offending at Viewbank in Victoria between 13 and 15 September 2019 and 22 December 2020. I have taken those matters into account when fixing the total sentence for you for the offences before this court. You have no prior criminal history.

The circumstances of your offending

5The prosecutor read from Prosecution Opening for Plea and was tendered as Exhibit ‘A’. The document was 35 pages in length and included a ‘Table A’ and a ‘Table B’ at the end of it. Exhibit ‘A’ is attached to these reasons for sentence.

6Each of the charges 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are rolled up charges. Meaning a number of discreet offending events are included in the single charge. At the time of the offending you were between 44 and 45 years of age.

7On 17 February 2021 the Joint Anti-Child Exploitation team, which is known as 'JACET' arrested a man by the name of Thomas James Donaldson and executed a search warrant at his home address. An analysis of Mr Donaldson's iPhone revealed a number communications on the encrypted Telegram messaging application between Mr Donaldson and the user with the moniker of 'GYOZPRV'. Those communications involved discussions about the sexual abuse of children. The moniker, as in GYOZPRV, also sent to Mr Donaldson various images and videos which were identified as child abuse material. The investigation revealed that you were the person using the moniker GYOZPRV.

8Charges 1 to 5 inclusive arise from your use of the telephone application 'Telegram'. You used Telegram to communicate with other likeminded individuals in sexually charged conversations interspersed with the transmission of images and videos of child abuse material.

9Charges 1 and 4 are charges of transmitting child abuse material. These are two separate charges because of the introduction of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Act 2020, which came into effect on 23 June 2020.

10      The offending is on numerous occasions transmitting child abuse material between 21 September 2019 and 17 April 2021. Your communications were with a total of 31 separate people over that period. I will now deal with the admitted criminality in respect of Charges 1 and 4 together.

11On   Charge   1,   between   the    dates    of    21    September    2019    and    19 June 2020, of transmitting child abuse material, there are 18 separate users, which I will briefly summarise:

1)The user referred to as 'man guy', transmission happened between 21 September 2019 and 4 January 2020. There were 39 videos and 42 images.

2)The user referred to as 'BMelb28'. This occurred between 6 October 2019 and 2 November 2019. There were five images.

3)The user 'JL Jr', this happened between 17 October 2019 and 17 November 2019. It occurred over two days and an image was sent.

4)The fourth person was 'Tommo7221' between 1 November 2019 and 7 June 2020, there were conversations and images transmitted to that person.

5)The fifth person was 'JoshBigD' on 15 November 2019, this was a one date occasion. There was a conversation and an image transmitted.

6)Another user referred as 'SL' that was on 26 November 2019 and one image was transmitted.

7)The next person was 'Matt B' on 1 December 2019. You sent a series of images to that person.

8)'Spunk Witch' on 17  December 2019.    This was a one-off communication where you sent one video and images.

9)'JT' between 27 December 2019 and 7 March 2020, one image and conversation in that period.

10)'ccwilly'   between   1    January   2020   and   5    February   2020,    had conversations and six images were transmitted.

11)'G-Raffe'        was        between        4        January        2020        and 12 May 2020, where you transmitted two videos and seven images.

12)'M M' between 22 January 2020 and 14 May 2020, transmitted six videos and images.

13)'Bee' that was on 7 March 2020 which is a one-off, one image and then that was the end of that communication.

14)'Shardvark' between 7 March 2020 to 23 March 2020, where you sent one image.

15)'Ryan no limits, pm open' that was between 25 March 2020 and 7 June 2020, with conversations and four images.

16)'Partypigbro' on 16 April 2020, images and conversation took place.

17)The next one was 'Perv' that was between 28 April 2020 to 19 June 2020, where you transmitted 11 videos and more than nine images.

18)And 'Baby Storage C' which was a one-day matter in a group chat on 15 May 2020, you sent four images to the group.

12On Charge 4, again transmission of child abuse material between 5 July 2020 and 17 April 2021. There are a total of 29 people you sent material too and I'll read them out:

1)The first person is 'Man guy' which occurred on 22 December 2020. You sent six videos and two images.

2)The second one is 'BMelb28' between 8 July 2020 and 22 December 2020. There were six videos and nine images.

3)The third person was 'JL Jr' between 5 December 2020 and 2 April 2021. There were five separate days of images being sent.

4)'Tommo7221' which occurred between 5 July 2020 and 5 February 2021. There was conversations, one video and two images sent.

5)'JoshBigD' between 27 December 2020 and 5 February 2021, there were three separate images sent.

6)'SL' between 22 July 2020 and 22 December 2020, there were three separate images sent.

7)'Matt B' between 19  October  2020  and  4  February  2021,  there  were  13 images and one video sent.

8)'JT' between 20 October 2020 and 22 February 2021, there were four images sent.

9)'CCWilly' between 26 December 2020 and 26 January 2021, there were three videos and three images sent.

10)'G-Raffe' between 22 October 2020 and 24 January 2021, there was one video and a conversation.

11)'MM' on 3 August 2020, there were three videos.

12)'Shardvark' between 22 July 2020 and 29 March 2021, images and conversations.

13)'Ryan no limits, pm open' on 14 December 2020 you sent two images.

14)'Partypigbro' between 22 July 2020 and 5 December 2020 there were images sent.

15)'Perv' between 6 July 2020 and 2 April 2021 there were 19 videos and images sent.

16)'Baby Storage C' on 17 December 2020 there were two images sent.

13All of those people were also involved in Charge 1. The following people were new:

1)'RG' between 8 July 2020 to 17 April 2021, there were 16 videos and more than 15 images.

2)'Dirty'  between 2  August  2020 and 22  December 2020.    One video and five images.

3)'Alex'  between 1 November 2020 and 25 February 2021, 15  videos and  20 images.

4)'Nudie Melb' was between 28 November 2020 and 12 December 2020, images and a chat.

5)'TylerCarson'   between   16    December   2020   and   22   February   2021, 13 images.

6)'MickyMisha' between 17 December 2020 and 28 December 2020, there were one video and one image sent.

7)'K Mac' between 21 December 20202 and 27 December, three videos and 10 images.

8)'D' on 22 December 2020, one image.

9)'J Dean' between 26 December 2020 and 27 December 2020, one image.

10)'Awkward Guy' on 28 December 2020 six videos and two images.

11)'AMINO AC' between 29 December 2020 and 4 February 2021, 17 images.

12)'iPad21' between 19 January 2021 and 22 February 2021, images over four days.

13)'Yustin Lop', one image sent on 5 February 2021.

14The child abuse material transmitted through these charges includes images, videos and written material depicting the following things:

a)Male children being penetrated in the anus and mouth by a penis and a finger of the adult male or that of a sex toy;

b)Adult men licking the anus, penis and vagina of children ranging in the age from newborns to pre-pubescent;

c)Adult men masturbating the penis of children ranging from infants to pre-pubescent;

d)Pre-pubescent children being subjected to torture and/or acts of 'BDSM' that consist of wearing mouth chokers, being locked in animal cages, being bound by hands and feet;

e)Children depicted in the images and videos ranged in ages between nought and ten years of age; and

f)Some of the children depicted in these images and videos were crying and appeared to be in distress.

15‘Yustin Lop’ sent you an image that depicted nine boys of decreasing age standing in line numbered one to nine. In response, you stated 'number 8 for me'. Later Lop asked if you had a picture like that and you then sent him a child abuse image which I have referred to earlier. The image depicted an animated pre-pubescent boy being penetrated in the anus by the penis of an adult male while giving a thumbs-up.

16On Charge 2, between 17 October 2019 and 19 June 2020 you transmitted, to yourself child abuse material. This is a rolled-up charge incorporating your use of a carriage service to cause child abuse material to be transmitted to yourself through the telegram application as follows:

i.'Man guy' between 17 October 2019 and 4 January 2020 there were 16 videos and 14 images; and

ii.'Tommo7221' between 7 June 2020 and 19 June 2020, it was done over a period of two days.

17You requested images and videos from ‘Tommo7221’ on 7 June 2020, the following conversations occurred between the two of you:

Tommo: 'M'hmm fuck yeah. we could get married and adopt kids of our own and become dumps'.

You: 'Did you have pics of you and your nephew?' Tommo then sends you an image.

You: 'I want that so much babe'.

'Fuck my pedo cock is rock hard here'.

Tommo responds: 'Hee hee hee I love being a paedophile'. You respond: 'That photo is amazing'.

18      On 19 June 2020, in the course of a conversation about being paedophile lovers and paedophile parents, the following exchange occurred between you and Tommo7221:

You: 'I would have raped you in hospital as a newborn' and there are some emojis attached.

Tommo responds: 'Oh dad fuck you shove your cock balls deep, dad will love you'.

You: 'I want our own family together. I want to rape our babies with you every day. Baby I love you.'

Tommo responds 'Did you see the naked pic of my nephew? He looks sexy as fuck'.

You: 'Baby I want to see that so much'.

Then Tommo sends you an image, said to be of his nephew including child abuse material.

Tommo: 'Look how sexy he looks Dad. We need a baby of our own' and you say You: 'Fuck he's gorgeous’

‘Show me more of our little nephew'.

19      I note here that your talk of 'a nephew', being Tommo2771 nephew, takes place only sixteen months after your own two year old nephew was tragically killed in a farm accident.

20On Charges 3 and 5, both charges are of accessing child abuse material by using a carriage service. There are two separate charges due to the same legislative changes referred to earlier in my reasons about Charges 1 and 4. Your offending in  respect  of  these   charges   is   that   on   numerous   occasions   between  21 September 2019 and 22 February 2022 you accessed child abuse material.

21In respect of Charge 3, that is between the dates of 21 September 2019 and

22 June 2020 you accessed child abuse material. It's a rolled up charge incorporating your use of a carriage service to access child abuse material through the telegram application. Again the charges are separated only as a result of the legislative changes that relate to the use of your GYOZPRV account to access child abuse material in the following way:

22You saved messages between 21 September 2019 and 29 April 2020 with:

1.  Perv between 29 April 2020 and 22 June 2020, there were six occasions where you accessed the material.

2.  Travis Barron on 15 May 2020, images and videos were sent; and

3. The  ‘TeDdy  Collection’  which  is  a  group,  or   effectively   a   library   of child abuse material of some 63 videos and 9,175 images on 7 June 2020.

23Within the telegram application you also saved a selection of material from multiple sources such as group chats, individual chats, and unknown sites. The material ranged from 21 September 2019 to 29 April 2020 and includes 100 images and 183 videos which have been identified as child abuse material. That is also part of Charge 3.

24Charge 5 is between the dates of 6 July 2020 and 22 February 2021, you accessed child abuse material, again is a rolled up charge of you using a carriage service to obtain child abuse material through that telegram application. This charge is separated from Charge 3 only by way of legislative changes.  It is a continuum of

your activities and it relates to the use of your account GYOZPRV, again in the following way:

251. Perv between 6 July 2020 and 22 February 2021 on 14 occasions;

262. You accessed the ‘TeDdy Collection’ between 1 November 2020 and 3 January 2021 on three occasions with ‘AlexRG’ and ‘Matt B’. There were some 63 videos and 9000 images within that group chat.

27And finally, Charge 6, on 23 April 2021 police executed a search warrant at your home. During the search an Apple iPhone belonging to you was located and seized by the police. Analysis of the iPhone revealed 64 images of child abuse material stored on the device within a folder entitled 'Cutie and Dad'. The images were of a series depicting the same pre-pubescent boys and adult males with each image dated 1 April 2020.

28In addition, the child abuse material shares by telegram as described above was also located on the device. The images and videos possessed around each of these chats can be broken down in the following manner, and I'll start with users and then what you transmitted or what was transmitted by other users:

Amino AC: you transmitted 17 child abuse images.

Awkward Guy: 18 child abuse files - sorry eight child abuse files, two images and six videos.

BMelb28: 21 files, 14 images and seven videos.

CCWilly: was 11 files in total including six images and five videos. Also CCWilly transmitted to you 27 images.

Dirty: there was six child abuse files, there was five images and one video transmitted by you.

iPad21: you transmitted four images and received one image from that person.

JT: there was a total of four images and one video transmitted by you and there's one text based response to you.

JL Jr: there were seven files transmitted by you which involved seven images.

K Mac: there were 12 files of nine images and three videos transmitted by you.

Man guy: there were 15 files of one image and 14 videos and then a later set of files with 89 files in it which is 44 images and 45 videos all of them transmitted by

you to Manguy. He sent you in return 14 images and 16 videos.

Micky Misha: there were two child abuse files comprising one image and one video.

Nudie Melb: was two images.

Partypigbro: was three images transmitted by you.

Ryan no limits, pm open: you sent one image and received one image. Shardvark: you sent three images.

SL: you sent four images. Spunkwitch: you sent one video.

Travis Barron: you received four images and one video. Yustin Lop: you received one image.

29      In total, on your iPhone, there was 128 images and 84 videos that you had sent and 47 images and 17 videos you had received.

30You provided the investigators with the passcode to your mobile phone. You exercised your right to make “no comment” record of interview.

31Your offending does not involve the volume of images and videos which are frequently seen in cases such as this. Nevertheless your offending involved sending and receiving images of children and videos of children being sexually abused whilst communicating on telegram chat about your perverted and repugnant plans and fantasies with the recipients or senders of the child abuse material. This offending normalises and promotes the concept of sexual abuse of children. This factor is an aggravating feature of the general charge of accessing child abuse material and of transmitting child abuse material.

Personal circumstances

32You are now 47 years old. At the time of your offending you were between 44 and 45 years of age. You grew up in the farming district of Naringal near Warrnambool. Your parents were dairy farmers. You are the eldest child of four children in the family. You were educated at Naringal Primary School and then attended Brauer Secondary College in Warrnambool to complete Year 12. You reported to Patrick

Newton, which was Exhibit ‘B’, that you were well cared for in your family and that you had not been subjected to any form of mistreatment.

33Upon leaving school you joined the Army and served as a Tank Crewman. You remained in the Army for one full year and a further four years part time. Whilst in the Army you studied a short time at the University of Wodonga. You then returned to work on the family farm. You were involved with the local sporting clubs and the community activities there.

34You have spent one year in the United Kingdom on an agricultural scholarship exchange. You returned home and ran a local general store for three years. During all of this time you were exploring and coming to the conclusion that you were a gay man. You came out to your family when you were approximately 30 years of age. Your family fully supported you in your life. You moved to Melbourne and soon thereafter commenced a relationship with your partner Kier. You attempted conducting a bar business here in Melbourne but that was not successful.

35As a mature aged student you have completed a Bachelor of Science and Environment and a Masters of Urban Planning and Environment. You have worked as a Commonwealth public servant for approximately 14 years and resigned shortly prior to your plea hearing.

36You have remained in a relationship with Kier. You described your relationship with Kier in Exhibit ‘B’ as 'initially exclusive and became more open over time'. You engage in drug use and describe the drug use as 'central to your sexual connection with your partner'.

37In January 2019, one of your nephews, aged two, was tragically killed when a piece of farm machinery fell on him. Your offending for these matters commenced later in 2019.

38In 2013 you contracted HIV. You have received medical care for that condition and now have an undetectable viral load.

39Since your arrest for this offending you have participated in Sex Offender Treatment programs under the supervision of  Dr  Philip  Greenway  and Geoffrey Burrows. Exhibit 3 was a report dated 12 April 2023 outlining the treatment in full detail.   You have attended 23 consultations in person and 10    of them by video conferencing between 14 May 2021 and May of 2023. The report states:

'Following this element of treatment, Mr Membrey successfully structured his distorted offence-supporting cognitions and demonstrated an improved albeit intellectual understanding of the destructive nature of his offending behaviour. His restructured cognition, included “sexual abuse will always cause significant harm to a child's life, regardless of how they appear” and “role playing about child abuse can normalise it to myself and others and may encourage someone to act out their fantasies and harm a child”. Despite this progress, Mr Membrey's victim empathy remains superficial. He requires further engagement in treatment to consolidate his progress and further enhance his victim empathy'.

40      You have also participated in 'CEM-COPE', that is a Coping with Child Exploitation Material Use Program, facilitated by Dr Diana Talevski, Dr Simon Vincenzi and Ms Rose Tingate at Forensicare. The report dated 3 April 2023 is Exhibit 4 in the plea. You have attended 15 sessions under this program.  Each session was for a period of two hours. In summary, the identified issues were illicit substance abuse which was methamphetamine, relationship stress, social isolation and loneliness. You have been absent from drug use since your arrest and have needed drug screens to establish that position which are in Exhibit 5 on the plea.

41You have the support of your partner who gave a reference which was Exhibit 7, your family, which were Exhibits 6 and 8. They accept that you have accepted the responsibility for your offending, that you are remorseful for your offending and that you have actively sought treatment to lower the risk of reoffending by you.

Sentencing Considerations

42The basic purpose for which a court may impose a sentence, just punishment, deterrence, both specific and in general, rehabilitation and denunciation of your

actions, and the protection of the community. In sentencing you, I must have regard to a range of factors such as the seriousness of your offending, your culpability for it and your personal circumstances.

43I'm also required to balance the interest of the community in denouncing your criminal conduct with the interest of the community in seeking to ensure that, as far as possible, that you, as an offender, are rehabilitated and reintegrated into society.

44The six charges you pleaded guilty to, are Commonwealth offences. In sentencing you I also take into account the matters referred to in the certificate attached to s 16BA of the Crimes Act 1914 form dated 19 April 2023 to which you have admitted. These matters raise matters of specific deterrence and retribution in your overall sentence.

45Section 17A of the Crimes Act 1914 provides that a Court shall not pass sentence of imprisonment for a federal offence unless it is satisfied, after having considered all other available sentences, that no other sentence is appropriate in all the circumstances.

46Section 16A(2) sets out a non-exhaustive list of factors a Court is required to consider when sentencing a federal offender such as yourself, as follows:

a)The principles of general deterrence;

b)The nature and circumstances of the offending including your moral culpability;

c)The maximum penalties applicable to the charges that you face;

d)If the offence forms part of a course of conduct that consists under serious criminal acts, the same or similar acts to that course of conduct;

e)The fact that you have pleaded guilty to the charges;

f)The degree to which you have cooperated with law enforcement agencies in the investigation of the offences themselves;

g)The deterrence effect of any sentence or order under consideration may have on you personally, that is specific deterrence;

h)The need to ensure that you are adequately punished for your offences;

i)Your character, antecedence, age, means and physical and mental condition;

j)The probable effect of any sentence or order under consideration may have on your family or your dependents;

k)The prospects of your rehabilitation;

l)The fact that prison is, as I've said before, a last resort.

47You have pleaded guilty to these charges at the earliest time in these proceedings. Your plea of guilty and cooperation with the police indicate and demonstrate some remorse on your part and I will accept that you are remorseful for your offending.

48Your plea of guilty has utilitarian value. You have allowed for the orderly administration of justice to take place. There is a certainty of outcome and the resolution of the substantive issues raised by your offending. Your plea also allows for the preservation of court and police resources to deal with other matters and your plea vindicates the public confidence in the legal process which has been set up to protect the community. As I said before, you have no criminal history and there are no charges outstanding.

49The Court of Appeal in the case of Worboyes v The Queen which is reported at [2021] VSCA 169 sets out a number of considerations that were particular to a plea of guilty in the course of the COVID 19 pandemic and even more so in the sentencing process. These considerations were reinforced by the Court of Appeal in the case of Rossi v The Queen [2021] VSCA 296 which recited the paragraphs

35     through     to     39     of     Worboyes'     case     and     highlighted     the following; I'm not going to read them all out, I'm just going to read some of them:

'We therefore consider whilst the Courts of this State continue to labour under the adverse effect of the pandemic, a sentence in court should view a plea of guilty as carrying with it a greater utilitarian benefit than at other times and in other circumstances and concomitantly, as attracting an augmented mitigatory effect on the sentence, simply because the plea will benefit the beleaguered administration of justice, given the unhappy state of the courts’ lists, the courts must, in an endeavour to alleviate the strain on the system, encourage those accused who are guilty to so plead. Such encouragement must come from an actual and probable amelioration of sentence.'

50      The Court of Appeal then went on:

For these reasons, we consider that, all other things being equal, a plea of guilty entered during the currency of the COVID-19 pandemic is worthy of greater weight in mitigation than a similar plea entered at a time when the community and the courts are not afflicted by the pandemic’s effects. A plea of guilty during the pandemic ordinarily should attract a more pronounced amelioration of sentence than at another time. Although a sentencing judge need not quantify the extent of any ‘discount’, he or she must ensure that the plea of guilty results in a perceptible amelioration of sentence.'

51      The Worboyes discount, as referred to, has particular application in your case because you were on bail between your arrest and plea hearing.

52The time between your arrest and plea has been a delay of two years. You have engaged in rehabilitation programs in that time. You have also managed to stay drug free for that period. The fact that these charges and the potential for imprisonment have been hanging over your head for a two year period, are a factor in mitigation in your sentencing process.

53I take into account your personal circumstances as at outlined earlier in these reasons. You have no prior convictions. You have a consistent work history over your life.

54You have been examined by Mr Patrick Newton, Forensic Psychologist, for the purpose  of  your  plea  hearing.  His  report,  dated  11   April   2023   was Exhibit 2 in the plea. He assesses your mental state as normal. He has diagnosed you with methamphetamine use disorder in remission. He opines that you meet the criteria for other specified paraphilia with paedophilic features. He assesses

you as a moderate risk of re-offending. He recommends you continue with your sex offender rehabilitation to reduce your risk of re-offending.

55I assess your prospects of rehabilitation as fair. You have engaged in rehabilitation by undertaking sex offender programs, you have the support from your family, your diagnosis of a specified paraphilia with paedophilic features represents a moderate risk of recidivism.

56Your offending is serious in respect of each of the six charges. Parliament has fixed a maximum sentence of 15 years imprisonment. Your moral culpability for these offences is high, the extent of the offending is significant:

(a)Charges 1 and 4 are in effect a continuation over a period of 19 months where you transmitted child abuse material to like-minded persons over 31 different telegram chats.

(b)Charges 3 to 5 are offending which occurred over a 16-month period on four different telegram chats where you accessed child abuse material with like-minded offenders.

(c)Charge 2  is  where  you  offended  over  two  discreet  periods  totally  three months where you caused child abuse material to be transmitted to you by like-minded persons using the telegram chat system; and

(d)Charge 6 is the possession of the child abuse material including images, texts and videos, on the day of your arrest.

57The materials included degrading, forceful and humiliating sexual acts on children. The sexual acts included penetrative and non-penetrative activity and acts engaged with adults and children. The children ranged in age from babies to pre-pubescent children. The images were of a sadistic and deviant nature.

58The chat communications not only referred to sexual acts but also contained references to raping, kidnapping, drugging, infecting with HIV and other

deliberately harming acts to children. The text communications had the tendency to “normalise” or encourage the exploitive sexual activity with children and may stimulate a susceptible recipient to engage in actual activities of sexual offending against real children.

59The offending by you involves being part of a network of like-minded offenders. There is no evidence you derived any financial benefit from the offending or the communications on telegram. The chats clearly mark out your sexual interest in young boys between zero and ten years of age. The first five charges involve numerous separate events of offending and clearly more serious than a single event of offending.

60The main sentencing consideration is general deterrence. The protection of children is of tantamount consideration for the court in applying the law.

61I take into account the provisions of s 19(5) of the Crimes Act 1914, where there is a presumption of cumulation for sex offences charges committed after 23 June 2020. I have cumulated only that part of the sentence for Charges 4, 5 and 6, that properly reflect the overall seriousness of the offending. The sentences imposed are of appropriate severity in all the circumstances of this prosecution. To impose a great cumulation or total cumulation would be in breach of the sentencing principle of totality.

62The principles of general and specific deterrence are paramount in this sentencing process. The principles of just punishment and denunciation of conduct are also applicable and the protection of the community is a relevant sentencing consideration. The community demands that the law protects children and a just sentence dictates the term of imprisonment to be actually served as the only appropriate sentence for the charges 1 to 6.

63Now Mr Prosecutor, can I just check, what is the pre-sentenced detention?

64MR MANNING: Twenty-three days, Your Honour.

65HIS HONOUR: Thank you.

66MR MANNING: Excluding today.

67HIS HONOUR: Yes. Do you agree with that?

68MR SHOCKER: Yes Your Honour.

69HIS HONOUR: Mr Membrey, if you'd stand please

70In relation to Charge 1 you are convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

71In relation to Charge 2 you are convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

72In  relation to  Charge 3  you are  convicted and  sentenced to two  years and   six months imprisonment.

73In relation to Charge 4 you are convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

74In  relation to  Charge 5  you are  convicted and  sentenced to two  years and   six months imprisonment.

75In relation to Charge 6 you are convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

76The sentences are to be served in this manner:

77The sentences for Charges 1 and 4 are to commence on 12 May 2023, that is today.

78The sentences for Charges 3 and 5 are to commence two years before the completion of the sentences in Charges 1 and 4.

79The sentence for Charge 2 is to commence is to commence two years and nine months before the completion of the sentences in Charges 1, 3, 4 and 5.

80And the sentence for Charge 6 is to commence two years and six months before the completion of the sentence in charges 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

81My calculation is that that is a  total  effective  sentence  of  four  years  and  three months. I fix a non-parole period of two years and six months. A section 6AAA has to be declared.

82MR SHOCKER: Yes Your Honour.

83HIS HONOUR: I declare that without your plea of guilty I would have sentenced you to five years six months with three years and nine months non-parole period. I declare you have served 23 days of pre-sentenced detention in respect of this whole sentence and I place you on a Sex Offender Register for life.

84MR MANNING: There are no issues from the Crown Your Honour.

85HIS HONOUR: Have I dictated that correctly?

86MR MANNING: On my calculations, yes sorry. It's a total effective sentence of four years three months with the non-parole period.

87HIS HONOUR: Yes. I'll just have the draft Order handed to both of you and also the Sex Offenders Register. I'll hand that to you Mr Shocker, you can - sorry the Sex Offenders Register, if you could just show your client and get him to sign it.

88MR SHOCKER: Yes.

89HIS HONOUR: If you can have a quick - sorry you are doing a lot of things at once - you can have a quick look at that Order to see if you agree  that  it's correct - - -

90MR SHOCKER: Yes Your Honour.

91HIS HONOUR: - - - and then hand it to the prosecutor to get, what I call, their 'expert cast of the eye over orders made in federal matters'.

92MR SHOCKER: Yes, Your Honour.

93HIS HONOUR: You can take a seat, Mr Membrey.

94MR SHOCKER: Sorry my maths is just failing me, if I might just take a moment.

95HIS HONOUR:   If I can revert to the State way of explaining the sentencing.   For 1 and 4; if we use that as the base sentence, because that is the first sentence in sequence, it's three years. Then you add to that for 3 and 5, the six months on top of that three years, then for Charge 2, there's three months of that sentence and for Charge 6, there's six months of that sentence. If you add them all up you should get 51 months.

96MR SHOCKER: Yes.

97HIS HONOUR: Yes.

98MR SHOCKER: I do Your Honour. The only matter perhaps, and I might defer to the Commonwealth on this, is whether, where it reads in relation to Charge 2 - - -

99HIS HONOUR: Two, yes.

100MR SHOCKER: - - - that that commences two years and nine months before the completion of Charges 1, 3, 4 and 5.

101HIS HONOUR: Yes.

102MR SHOCKER: Charges 1 and 4 have different completion dates to Charge 3 and 5.

103HIS HONOUR: Correct. So 1 and 4 finish at three years from today.

104MR SHOCKER: Yes.

105HIS HONOUR: And 3 and 5 finish at six months after that.

106MR SHOCKER: Yes.

107HIS HONOUR: So I want to be really clear,  so  that  Charge  2  only  commences - sorry, the additional part of Charge 2 is only added to the three years and six months, and I think that says that.

108MR SHOCKER: Yes Your Honour.

109MR MANNING: Just to clarify Your Honour. I understand the point my learned friend's making. I think technically it's correct, the way that Your Honour has done it, and it achieves that outcome.

110HIS HONOUR: Yes.

111MR MANNING: But I think what my learned  friend  is  raising, with  which  I  have some agreement, is that if Your Honour simply removes reference to Charges 1 and 4 in that particular direction - - -

112HIS HONOUR: All right, yes.

113MR MANNING: - - - and then it's very clear obviously that that is not to commence, in only by reference to Charges 3 and 5 - - -

114HIS HONOUR: Thank you.

115MR MANNING: - - - so it has the three months.

116HIS HONOUR: Thanks.

117MR MANNING: And the same approach could then apply to Charge 6 in simply referring to Charge 2, which would be the last in time before Charge 6.

118HIS HONOUR: Yes all right, I'll do that. So - and I just want to make sure that that will work in terms of what the total effective sentence is. That it be four years and three months. It should be - I'm just checking here.

119MR MANNING: Yes Your Honour.

120MR SHOCKER: I will deal with the signing of the paperwork.

121HIS HONOUR: I think I need the first page back - I think. Sorry just give it all back to me first.

122Mr Membrey I'm going to have this Sex Offender Register document copied twice. One of them is for you just so that you've got a copy of it yourself. I'll give one to your solicitor - your counsel, sorry.

123I'm going to amend the Order in the manner in which you have both submitted. If there's some difficulty about it, just - I want to make it very clear - my intention is that this sentence is a total effective sentence of four years and three months with a non-parole period of two years and six months and if there's some issue that needs correction, get back in touch with me and make sure that Mr Membrey's back in court and we can fix it. I think it should be right.

124MR SHOCKER: Yes Your Honour.

125MR MANNING: Yes Your Honour.

126HIS HONOUR: Mr Membrey, the total - the sentence today is four years and three months with a non-parole period of two years and six months. I've declared that you've served 23 days of that sentence up until now, not including today.

127Thanks Officers you can remove the prisoner.

128Thanks Counsel and those who instruct you for your assistance.

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IN THE COUNTY COURT OF VICTORIA  CR-22-00909 AT MELBOURNE

IN ITS CRIMINAL JURISDICTION

THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

-v- CHRISTOPHER JOHN MEMBREY

PROSECUTION OPENING FOR PLEA

Indictment

  1. Christopher John Membrey (the offender) is pleading guilty to the following six offences:

Charges Offence Maximum Penalty

1, 4

(2 charges)

Use carriage service to transmit child abuse material

Section 474.22(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth)

15 years’ imprisonment

2

(1 charge)

Use carriage service to cause child abuse material to be transmitted to himself

Section 474.22(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth)

15 years’ imprisonment

3, 5

(2 charges)

Use carriage service to access cause child abuse material

Section 474.22(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth)

15 years’ imprisonment

6

(1 charge)

Possess or control child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service

Section 474.22A(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth)

15 years’ imprisonment

Scheduled Offences

  1. The offender additionally admits the following offences which are to be taken into account in sentencing on the charges indicated below, pursuant to s 16BA of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth):

Item Offence Maximum Penalty Relevant charge
1 Between 13 and 15 September 2019, use a carriage service to transmit child pornography material,1 contrary to section 474.19(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth) 15 years’ imprisonment 1
2 On 13 September 2019, use a carriage service to cause child pornography material to be transmitted to himself, contrary to section 474.19(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth) 15 years’ imprisonment 2
3 On 22 December 2020, use a carriage service to cause child abuse material to be transmitted to himself, contrary to section 474.22(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth) 15 years’ imprisonment 2

1 The offences of using a carriage service for “child pornography material” contrary to s 474.19(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth) were repealed on 21 September 2019 and replaced with offences of using a carriage service for “child abuse material” contrary to s 474.22(1): Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation Legislation Amendment Act 2019, sch 7.

Background

  1. The offender was born in June 1975 and is 47 years old. At the time of the offending he was between 44 and 45 years old.

  1. On 17 February 2021, the Joint Anti-Child Exploitation Team (JACET) arrested Thomas James Donaldson and executed a search warrant at his home address. Analysis of Mr Donaldson’s iPhone revealed a number of communications on the encrypted Telegram messaging application between Mr Donaldson and a user with the moniker ‘GyOzPrv’. Those communications involved discussions about the sexual abuse of children. GyOzPrv also sent to Mr Donaldson various images and videos which were identified as child abuse material.

  1. The investigation into GyOzPrv led JACET investigators to the offender.

Overview

  1. The charges predominately relate to the offender’s use of telephone application Telegram, which he used to communicate with other likeminded individuals. The conversations captured are sexually charged and are interspersed with references to, and images of, child abuse.

  1. Charges 1 and 4 are rolled-up charges incorporating the offender’s use of a carriage service to transmit child abuse material through the Telegram application. The charges are separated only as a result of legislative changes.2

  1. Both charges relate to the offender’s use of Telegram account, GyOzPrv, to send child abuse material in 31 Telegram chats over the charged dates, as follows:

No Telegram User/Group Charge 1 dates Charge 4 dates
1 man guy 21.9.19 – 4.1.20 22.12.20
2 BMelb28 6.10.19 – 2.11.19 8.7.20 – 22.12.20
3 JL Jr 17.10.19 – 17.11.19 5.12.20 – 2.4.21
4 Tommo7221 1.11.19 – 7.6.20 5.7.20 – 5.2.21
5 JoshBigD 15.11.19 27.12.20 – 5.2.21
6 SL 26.11.19 22.7.20 – 22.12.20
7 Matt B 1.12.19 19.10.20 4.2.21
8 Spunk Witch 17.12.19 N/A
9 J T 27.12.19 – 7.3.20 20.10.20 – 22.2.21
10 ccwilly 1.1.20 – 5.2.20 26.12.20 – 26.1.21
11 Gir Affe 4.1.20 – 12.5.20 20.10.20 – 24.1.21
12 M M 22.1.20 – 14.5.20 3.8.20
13 Bee 7.3.20 N/A
14 Shardvark 7.3.20 – 29.3.20 22.7.20 – 29.3.21
15 Ryan No limits, pm open 25.3.20 – 7.6.20 14.12.20
16 PartyPigBro 16.4.20 22.7.20 – 5.12.20
17 perv 28.4.20 – 19.6.20 6.7.20 – 2.4.21
18 Baby Storage C 15.5.20 17.12.20
19 R G N/A 8.7.20 – 17.4.21
20 Dirty N/A 2.8.20 – 22.12.20
21 alex N/A 1.11.20 – 25.2.21

2 Introduced from 23 June 2020 by the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Act 2020 (Cth).

22 Nudie Melb N/A 28.11.20 – 12.12.20
23 TylerCarson N/A 16.12.20 – 22.2.21
24 MickyMischa N/A 17.12.20 – 28.12.20
25 K Mac N/A 21.12.20 – 27.12.20
26 D N/A 22.12.20
27 J Dean N/A 26.12.20 – 27.12.20
28 Awkward Guy N/A 28.12.20
29 AMINO AC N/A 29.12.20 – 4.2.21
30 iPad21 N/A 19.1.21 – 22.2.21
31 Yustin Lop N/A 5.2.21
  1. The child abuse material transmitted throughout charges 1 and 4 includes images, videos and written material depicting the following:

a.Male children being penetrated in the anus and mouth by the penis and/or finger of adult males, and/or that of a ‘sex toy’;

b.Adult men licking the anus, penis and vagina of children (ranging in age from newborn to prepubescence);

c.Adult men masturbating the penis of children (ranging from infant to prepubescence);

d.Prepubescent children being subjected to torture and/or acts of BDSM (wearing mouth chokers, being locked in animal cages, being bound by the hands and feet);

e.Children depicted in the images and videos ranged in age between 0 and 10 years of age;

f.Some of the children depicted in these images and videos were crying and appeared to be in distress.3

  1. Charge 2 is a rolled-up charge incorporating the offender’s use of a carriage service to cause child abuse material to be transmitted to himself through the Telegram application, as follows:

No Telegram User/Group Dates
1 man guy 17.10.19– 4.1.20
2 Tommo7221 7.6.20 – 19.6.20
  1. Charges 3 and 5 are rolled-up charges incorporating the offender’s use of a carriage service to access child abuse material through the Telegram application. Again, the charges are separated only as a result of legislative changes. They relate to the use of the GyOzPrv account to access child abuse material, as follows:

No Telegram User/Group Charge 3 dates Charge 5 dates
1 Saved Messages 21.9.19 – 29.4.20 N/A
2 perv 29.4.20 – 22.6.20 6.7.20 – 22.2.21
3 Travis Barron 15.5.20 N/A
4 TEDdy Collection 7.6.20 1.11.20 – 3.1.21
  1. A complete summary of the communications relating to the offending in Charges 1-5 is set out in the table attached and marked “A”.

  1. Charge 6 relates to the offender’s possession of child abuse material on the day of his arrest, comprising images, videos, and text.

3 Statement of Federal Agent Marshall dated 28 April 2021.

  1. Scheduled Items 1-3 relate to the offender’s communications with Telegram user “man guy” between 13 September 2019 and 22 December 2020.

Chat logs with man guy

  1. On 13 September 2019, the offender initiated a conversation on Telegram with ‘man guy’, stating that he saw man guy’s “profile on sexting forum” and that he “love[s] toddler boys”.4 Man guy asked if the offender had any experience to which the offender stated, “[s]adly I don’t. I’ve only realised that I am a pedo over the last few years. Always liked younger but it was only when given some encouragement that I realised I was fully up for as young as baby’s”.5

  1. They discussed whether they had “stuff” to share and trade, and the offender subsequently sent 14 videos to man guy which have been identified as child pornography material from 13 September 2019 to 15 September 2019.6 That conduct forms the basis of Scheduled Item 1.

  1. On 13 September 2019, after the users exchanged explicit pictures/videos of themselves and child pornography material, the offender asked, “Any more vids to share?”.7 Man guy then sent 3 child pornography videos to the offender.8 That conduct forms the basis of Scheduled Item 2.

  1. Between 21 September 2019 and 4 January 2020, the offender transmitted 39 videos and 42 images to man guy which have been identified as child abuse material.9 The material depicted newborn babies, infants and prepubescent boys being penetrated in the anus and mouth by the penis of an adult man or foreign objects. It also depicted a prepubescent female displayed with the text “PEDO PRINCESS PRP 2016” written upon her legs whilst being simultaneously penetrated in the anus and vagina by the penises of adult men.

  1. The images and videos transmitted between 21 September 2019 and 4 January 2020 form part of

Charge 1.

  1. Throughout the conversations above, man guy also transmitted child abuse material to the offender, as follows:

a.On 17 October 2019, after sharing several videos with man guy, the offender asked if man guy had “any new to share”.10 In response, man guy asked the offender if he is “into boys or girls”.11 The offender answered boys, before man guy sent 2 child abuse videos.12 Man guy then sent a further 5 child abuse videos to the offender.

b.On 4 January 2020, after exchanging child abuse material with man guy, the offender asked if man guy had any more.13 In response, man guy sent the offender 8 child abuse images.14 Upon receipt of the images the offender said, “[f]uck yes. They are great pics of them both inside her”.15

Man guy sent a further 5 child abuse images. The offender asked, “any black babies or kids being raped/abused”.16 In response, man guy sent the offender a series of videos.17

4 Page 1.

5 Page 1, 08:21.

6 Page 2-9.

7 Page 5.

8 Page 5, from 10:25.

9 Page 10-53

10  Page 14, 09:40.

11  Page 14, 09:42.

12 Page 14.

13 Page 25, 15:14.

14 Pages 26-27, 15:15.

15 Page 28, 15:16.

16  Page 35.

17  Page 36.

The offender stated, “[l]ove how big his cock is”18 and “love him being fingered”.19 Man guy then sent further videos.

  1. In total, the offender received 16 videos and 14 images of child abuse material between 17 October 2019 and 4 January 2020.20 That conduct forms part of Charge 2. On 4 January 2020, the offender responded to one of the files sent to him by man guy, stating, “That’s fucking hot. Love how he’s holding it as well”.21

  1. On 22 December 2020, the offender sent man guy 6 videos and 2 images of child abuse material.22 That conduct forms part of Charge 4. Upon man guy stating “Nice”, the offender said, “Cheers perv. How about you?”.23 Man guy then sent child abuse videos and images to the offender.24 This conduct forms the basis of Scheduled Item 3.

Chat logs with BMelb28

  1. On 30 September 2019 the offender commenced a conversation with Telegram user, BMelb28.25 The offender stated, “It’s always great to know there’s some like minded guys locally. I’m 43 gay like young boys”.26 BMelb28 responded, “I’m 28. Into all kinds of taboo”.27

  1. On 6 October 2019 the offender sent 5 child abuse images to BMelb28.28 On 2 November 2019 he sent a further child abuse image. The transmission of these images forms part of Charge 1.

  1. On 8 July 2020, the offender sent another 3 child abuse images to BMelb28.

  1. On 21 July 2020, he stated, “Want to be cruising for young boys”. He asked BMelb28, “Any close encounters with younger kids recently”29 and later sent 1 child abuse video and 2 child abuse images.30 The conversation continued:31

BMelb28:            I’d just love to be pumping each one of them full of cum Offender:  Man that made my pedo cock so hard

Same here

BMelb28:            Any little boys make my cock hard

Offender:I love seeing a tiny little arse wrapped around a fat pedo cock Same man

I’d love to go cruising for kids with you

  1. Later that day the offender sent another child abuse image to BMelb28.32

  1. Between 22 July and 22 December 2020 the offender transmitted 5 videos and 4 images which have been identified as child abuse material.33

18  Page 36, 15:35.

19  Page 36, 15:36.

20 Page 10-53

21 Page 33.

22 Page 10-53

23 Page 47, 03:30.

24  Page 48, 03:33.

25 Page 1.

26 Page 1, from 17:43.

27 Page 1, 17:47.

28 Pages 4-6.

29 Page 15.

30 Pages 15-16.

31 Page 17, from 18:39.

32  Page 18.

33  Page 19.

  1. The communications by the offender between 8 July and 22 December 2020 form part of Charge

    4. The images and videos transmitted depicted prepubescent and infant boys being penetrated in the mouths and anus with the penises of adult men or foreign objects; and a newborn boy being fed semen through a baby’s bottle and the smoke emitted from an ‘ICE pipe’’.

Chat logs with JL Jr

  1. On 17 October 2019 the offender commenced a conversation with Telegram user JL Jr. The offender sent a child abuse image to JL.

  1. The conversation continued on 17 November 2019. The offender stated, “I’m just playing with my hard pedo cock watching some appropriate porn. How about you”.34 Later that day, JL sent the offender an image of his penis, to which the offender replied, “Fuck I wanna rape babies with you so much babe [emoji].”35

  1. The offender’s communications on 17 October and 17 November 2019 form part of Charge 1.

  1. On 23 January 2020, the offender and JL Jr engaged in further conversation, with discussions around staying together. The offender stated, “We could spend the time discussing some humanitarian style travel ideas”, and sent an image titled “Age of sexual consent around the world”.36

  1. On 15 May 2020, the pair sent messages including:37

JL Jr  All in all it’s a near ideal kind of isolation. (If a two-perv kidnapping is impractical

…. you and me plus one, locked in for months (with frequent illicit journeys to acquire essential substances to inflict upon our new charge, of course) There are bogan junkie sluts with fatherless babies all over up here

OffenderMmm you make it sound like the most romantic of romantic getaways. A pedo honeymoon allowed due to a pandemic necessitated lockdown. Granting us the isolation and privacy we could only have dreamed about before.

  1. On 5 December 2020 the offender sent a child abuse image to JL Jr.38 He sent further child abuse images on 22 December 2020, 26 December 2020 and 4 February 2021.39

  1. On 26 February 2021, the offender stated, “Was out and about in a local park. Toilet block near playground”.40 JL Jr responds, “Yum. Fucken dirty pervert. Wish I’d been there [emojis]”.41

  1. On 2 April 2021, the offender sent JL Jr images of himself wearing “boys [sic] underwear”.42

    Later, he sent an image which has been identified as child abuse material.43

  1. The child abuse images sent by the offender between 5 December 2020 and 2 April 2021 form part of Charge 4. The images depicted real naked infant boys positioned with a focus on their genitals; animated naked infant boys either displaying erect penises and being masturbated, or being anally penetrated digitally or with the penis of an adult male.

34  Page 3.

35  Page 4.

36  Page 7.

37  Page 14.

38  Page 15.

39 Page 16-17.

40  Page 19.

41  Page 19.

42  Page 21.

43  Page 23.

Chat logs with Tommo7211

  1. Between October 2019 and June 2020, the offender communicated with another Telegram user, Tommo7221. Tommo7221 was the Telegram account of Thomas James Donaldson, who was arrested on 17 February 2021 and led to the investigation into the offender.

  1. During the conversation the offender and Tommo7211 discussed engaging in sexual activity, both between themselves and with children. They repeatedly referred to themselves as paedophiles.

  1. On 1 November 2019, GyOzPrv and Tommo7221 had the following exchange:44

Tommo7721:       Mmmm yes daddy tell me how much you wanna fuck a baby while you’re deep in me

Offender:Ah baby I want that so much A newborn

Tommo7721:       Oh yes brand new!

He wouldn’t survive

Offender:             Yeah he would stand no chance with us brutally opening him up and using him

  1. On 3 November 2019, GyOzPrv and Tommo7221 had the following exchange:45

Tommo7221:       I’ll have to take a toilet break Offender:  Yeah. Grab a kid on the way in

Tommo7221:       Fuck yeah shove my pedo cock inside him

  1. At 10:30am that day, the offender wrote “Fuck so close” and sent a child abuse image.46 He continued, “Baby boy I want you and whatever other baby boy we could have join us”.

  1. On 13 April 2020, the offender and Tommo7221 exchanged messages. Relevantly, the conversation included the following:47

Offender:             [sent explicit image of himself]

Tommo7221:       Fuck yeah that pedo cock would look so hot in a toddler [sent explicit image of himself]

Offender:             I want it in a toddler so badly man

Fuck I love your pedo cock [emojis]

I would love to share a toddler with you so much Tommo7221:  Hehehe I’d love to fuck a toddler with you Offender:    I would love that so much [emojis]

Tommo7221:       Hehehe fuck year

Offender:             Both our pedo cocks inside it together

  1. On 7 June 2020, the offender and Tommo7221 exchanged sexually explicit photographs.48 They then had the following conversation:

Tommo7221:       Mmmmm your pedo cock is so hot daddy Offender:  Hmm thanks baby boy

love yours

44 Page 2, commencing at 23:15.

45 Page 4, commencing at 10:28

46 Page 5.

47 Page 10.

48 Page 21, commencing at 15:28.

I’ll love them both so much more when they are inside your little nephew Tommo7221:  Hehehe fuck yeah!! Balls deep in him

  1. They continued to discuss Tommo7221’s nephew, and in particular, the various acts of sexual abuse they wished to perpetrate against him.49

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 1.

  1. In the course of their conversations in May 2020, the offender asked if Tommo7221 had a picture of his nephew.50 After receiving a photo from Tommo7221 purporting to depict his nephew,51 the offender stated “[d]id you have any pics of you and him together”52 and the following exchange ensued:53

Tommo7221:       Not yet

I want us to pedo out together

Offender:So fucking much mad Man

I want to babysit your nephew with you

  1. On 30 May 2020, in the course of a discussion about meeting up, the offender stated, “I want to talk about us fucking your gorgeous little nephew together”.54

  1. On 7 June 2020, GyOzPrv and Tommo7221 had the following conversation:55

Tommo7221:       Mmmm fuck yeah we can get married and adopt kids of our own to raise and be cum dumps

Offender:             Did you have any pics of you and your nephew Tommo7221:  [Sends picture]

Offender:             I want that so much babe.

Fuck my pedo cock is rock hard here Tommo7221:  Hehehe I love being a pedophile Offender:      That photo is amazing

  1. On 19 June 2020, in the course of a conversation about being “pedophile lovers and pedophile parents”,56 the following exchange occurred:57

Offender:             I would have raped you in hospital as a newborn [emoji]. Tommo7221:  Oh dad fuck yes shove your cock balls deep!!!

Dad I love you

Offender:             I want our own family together

I want to rape our babies with you every day Baby I love you

Tommo7221:       Did you see the naked pic of my nephew?

He looks sexy as fuck Offender:        Baby I want to see that so much

Tommo7221:       [Sends pictures of his nephew, including child abuse material] Look how sexy he looks dad

We need a baby of our own

49 Page 23-27.

50  Page 13.

51  Page 14.

52 Ibid, at 07:20.

53 Ibid, commencing at 07:21.

54 Page 18.

55 Page 22, commencing at 15:33.

56 Page 29, 00:19.

57 Ibid.

Offender:             Fuck he is gorgeous

Show me more of our little nephew

  1. The offender’s communications between 7 and 19 June 2020 form part of Charge 2.

  1. Between July 2020 and February 2021, the offender continued his conversation with Tommo7221. These communications form part of Charge 4.

  1. On 5 July 2020, the offender sent messages to Tommo7221.58 In the course of that conversation, Tommo7221 told the offender that he “loves [his] pedo dad’s cock”.59 In reply, the offender stated, “I can’t wait to have it inside your baby nephew with yours [emojis]”.60

  1. On 8 July 2020, they continued to discuss Tommo7221’s nephew.61 Among other things, the offender stated that they could “both poz your nephew”.62 He also stated that he imagines them “fucking your nephew so much”.63

  1. A similar conversation followed on 21 and 22 December 2020.64 After asking for more pictures of Tommo7221’s nephew, the offender stated, “want to fuck him with you now”.65 There was an ensuing discussion about sexual activity with Tommo7221’s nephew. The conversation ended with the offender asking for “any more pics of our little boy”.66

  1. On 5 February 2021, the offender sent two child abuse images to Tommo7221.67 In the course of the conversation at the time, the offender also forwarded Tommo7221 a child abuse video.68

Chat logs with JoshBigD

  1. On 15 November 2019 the offender sent another Telegram user, JoshBigD, a message. He stated that he was in Australia, introduced himself as ‘Chris’, and sent several pictures of himself. He also sent an image that has been identified as child abuse material.69 The pair had a brief discussion about their “desires”. JoshBigD stated that he liked “7 – 14 …”. The offender responded that he liked “pre pubescent and younger”.

  1. The transmission of the child abuse image on 15 November 2019 forms part of Charge 1.

  1. Between December 2020 and April 2021, the offender continued his conversation with JoshBigD. On 27 December 2020, the offender sent JoshBigD a message. A brief exchange followed, at which point the offender stated “I want to feel our cocks inside a baby boy together”.70 The offender later sent JoshBigD a child abuse image.71

  1. On 25 January 2021 the offender sent JoshBigD a further child abuse image.72

58 Page 33.

59  Page 33, 22:19.

60  Page 33, 23:53.

61 Page 35.

62 Page 35, 10:08.

63  Page 35, 10:14.

64 Page 42.

65  Page 44, 19:10.

66  Page 45, 09:39.

67 Page 46, 12:00 and 12:02.

68 Page 48, 12:42.

69 Page 2, 00:32.

70  Page 10, 15:13.

71  Page 10, 15:41.

72 Page 11.

  1. On 5 February 2021, without any greeting and in the absence of any request, the offender sent JoshBigD a further child abuse image.73

  1. The communications between 27 December 2020 and 5 February 2021 form part of Charge 4. The child abuse material depicted animated prepubescent male children either masturbating or being penetrated in the anus by an adult male. The material also showed a real infant boy being held with his hands behind his back, and appearing as about to be digitally penetrated.

Chat logs with SL

  1. On 14 November 2019 the offender initiated a conversation with Telegram user, ‘SL’.74 On 26 November 2019 he sent SL a child abuse image.75 This forms part of Charge 1.

  1. On 27 November 2019, the offender told SL that he loved toddlers and babies.76 They had a similar conversation on 15 February 2020, during which the offender said he loved “pre pubescent and younger” and “0+. Brutal”.77

  1. On 22 July 2020, the offender told SL, “I want to cruise for kids with you and snatch them to molest and rape together”. He also sent a child abuse image.

  1. On 14 December 2020, after staying they were both ‘horny’, the offender said, “Want my cock inside a little boy. With yours”.78 He then sent another child abuse image to SL.79

  1. On 22 December 2020, the offender sent a further child abuse image.80

  1. The communications between 22 July and 22 December 2020 form part of Charge 4. The child abuse material depicted a real infant boy being penetrated in the anus by the penis of an adult man; a real prepubescent boy laying on his stomach and causing his anus to be exposed; an animated infant male child masturbating an adult man; and an animated prepubescent child superimposed next to the erect penis of an adult man.

Chat logs with Matt B

  1. On 1 December 2019, the offender sent Telegram user ‘Matt B’ a series of child abuse images.81 He referred to Matt B as a “pedo brother” and asked Matt B for images of himself. He stated, “[f]uck so hot. I would love to see that inside a young boy”.82 He told Matt B that he liked “younger down to 0+” and “I fucking love that as well. Completely dominating and brutally using them”. The communications that day form part of Charge 1.

  1. On 19 October 2020, the offender sent 2 child abuse images to Matt B.83

  1. On 2 January 2021, the offender sent a child abuse image to Matt B. The next day, Matt B sent an image of a penis, and the offender stated, “I’d love to see that inside a little baby”. The offender later sent 4 child abuse images to Matt B, and the following conversation ensued:84

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Offender:             Imaging our pedo cocks together Matt B:  Yeah both of us using him

Pedo cocks molesting him

Offender:             Any talk about having your own kids? Matt B: Maybe in next few years

Offender:I would love to be there to help you raise any spent Christmas at home wanting to molest and use my nephews

  1. Later still the offender sent 6 child abuse images to Matt B.85 He continued, “[n]ext door neighbour here has a pool … Yesterday one of them was running around and swimming naked. I wish I had been able to see more clearly”.86 He sent a further 5 images and 1 video of child abuse material.87 On 4 February 2021, he sent another 3 child abuse images.

  1. The communications between 19 October 2020 and 4 February 2021 form part of Charge 4. The material transmitted throughout the conversation depicted prepubescent male children naked and bound by their hands and feet; and newborn children being penetrated in the mouth, anus and vagina by adult men.

Chat logs with Spunk Witch

  1. On 17 December 2019, the offender sent Telegram user ‘Spunk Witch’ a number of images, including a photograph of himself.88 He later sent a child abuse video.89 The video depicts an adult male masturbating in the presence of a naked prepubescent male child, and encouraging the child to do the same. The adult male then placed the prepubescent male child on top of his stomach and continued to masturbate.

  1. The video transmitted by the offender forms part of Charge 1.

Chat logs with J T

  1. On 27 December 2019 the offender sent a message to user ‘J T’ on Telegram. He told J T,

    “[b]aby I want that so so much. Us together pozzing babies”.90

  1. They exchanged further messages on 7 March 2020.91 During that conversation, the offender sent a child abuse image to J T.92 He sent messages including, “I love younger”; “I love older fucking and molesting younger”; “I want that so fucking much. Hunt for kids together. Kidnap and rape them together”; and “I want to poz babies with you and leave them for their parents to find them not knowing”.

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 1.

  1. On 20 October 2020 the offender sent a child abuse image to J T. On 22 February 2021, he sent another 3 child abuse images.93 These communications form part of Charge 4.

  1. The child abuse material sent by the offender depicted a real prepubescent male child being penetrated in the anus by the penis of an adult man; a real prepubescent male child posing naked with his legs spread and exposing his penis; and animated prepubescent infant boys either

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superimposed next to a real erect penis, or being penetrated in the anus or mouth by the penis of an adult man.

Chat logs with ccwilly

  1. On 1 January 2020 the offender sent messages to Telegram user, ‘ccwilly’. He stated that he “love[s] the shares to the toons group [emoji]”.94 He said that he “loved these yesterday” and sent a child abuse image.95

  1. On 4 January 2020, the offender initiated a further conversation with ccwilly by saying “I love these” before forwarding a further 4 child abuse images.96

  1. On 5 February 2020, he asked if ccwilly could add “a fellow perv mate” to the ‘Toon group’.97 He sent another child abuse image.

  1. The images sent between 1 January and 5 February 2020 form part of Charge 1.

  1. On 26 December 2020 the offender sent a child abuse video to ccwilly.98 The following day, he sent another child abuse video and three child abuse images.99

  1. On 26 January 2021 he sent a further child abuse video to ccwilly. Ccwilly replied, “In a weird way I love it. The more fucked up the better. Especially if boys are involved”.100

  1. The images and videos sent between 26 December 2020 and 26 January 2021 form part of

Charge 4.

  1. The material depicted animated male children being penetrated in the anus and mouth by the penises of adult men and by foreign objects; animated male children being bound naked while surrounded by multiple naked adult males or other semi-naked children; and real newborn boys being penetrated in the anus and mouth by an adult penis, or positioned with an erect penis placed on their genitals.

Chat logs with Gir Affe

  1. Between 31 December 2019 and 2 April 2021, the offender communicated with Telegram user, Gir Affe. Gir Affe appears to have first initiated contact with the offender on 31 December 2019. After referring to themselves as “pervs”, they had the following conversation that day:101

Offender:             You have porn to watch

GirAffe:              A little not a lot You?

Offender:             Much the same

Gir Affe:              I can get more

Do you have any experience?

Offender:             Ah hot man.

I don’t really. Other than a couple of 16 yo when I was younger.

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  1. On 4 January 2020, the offender sent a message to Gir Affe, ‘Hey baby I loved chatting about our family [emojis]”.102 Later that day, he said “[t]he family life I crave is only possible with another proud prod as my partner and you baby are the proud pedo that can lift it to the next level”.103 He then sent a series of images to Gir Affe (which are not child abuse material). He explained that “[t]he pic of the boy was taken on a holiday recently up in NT. Him and his parents were on the same day tour as me”.104 After a brief conversation about the boy, he said “I was properly looking for places that I would be able to take him so as I could molest and rape him”.105 He added,106

Offender:             I felt so envigorated and confident within myself

That was like my own personal confirmation that I am fully accepting of my peadophilia and that I’m also ready to act of my instincts

I want you to know that I am a proud pedo, and that i am ready to become a practicing pedo and that I want to experience my first child sex now and that I want to share it with you my love [emojis]

  1. Gir Affe sent an image of his penis to which the offender replied, “Yum… We need to feed that to babies”.107

  1. On 14 April 2020, Gir Affe told the offender, “I spoke with our boy over Easter”. The offender replied, “Ah fuck that’s so good to hear my love. How was our sexy little boy”. The conversation continued with the offender stating, “I want to feel our pedo cocks pressed together inside him so much”. He went on to send two child abuse images. Gir Affe replied, “You know I don’t know if I told you or not but I really want to do it. I really want to get my perv cock inside one”. The offender said he “so so would love to share that with [Gir Affe] so much” and added: “I want to get mine inside our boy with you”. The conversation continued:

Offender:             I want us all to be poz together so much. Consummate or pedo love Gir Affe:  And rape the children as much as we want to

Offender:             Oh yeah. I want us to lead a proud pedo life together Gir Affe:  YES MY LOVE

Offender:             Our life’s will be completely given to pedophilia babe Gir Affe:  Yes!

Offender:Only mixing with pedos and encouraging and supporting each other to experience the full fruits that pedophilia offers

I want this so much mbaby

Gir Affe:              Yes! And kidnapping and rape ing all the kids Offender:  Yeah our own secret family to use and abuse

Getting young girls pregnant to give us our own little babies to fuck [sent child abuse image]

  1. The offender later sent a child abuse video to Gir Affe.

  1. On 28 April 2020, the offender told Gir Affe, “[y]ou an me wired out cruising. For boys”.108  He then forwarded 5 child abuse images and 1 child abuse video and added, “Hanging in parks waiting for our opportunity.”109

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  1. On 4 May 2020, Gir Affe initiated the conversation by sending a child abuse video to the offender.110 The offender responded, “Fuck this is so hot. It’s like watching what i have been imagining us to be like [emojis]”.111

  1. The two users had an extensive conversation on 11 May 2020.112 Gir Affe stated, “I want us to have a boy together”. The offender later stated, “My lover I want to spend my days cruising for kids with you. I wNt to kidnap and rape boys with you. I want to have our own little boys together as well”. Gir Affe responded, “OMG, babe that sounds so amazing I would love nothing more than to rape boys with you. We can kidnap them together blast them with meth then rape them”. The offender confirmed he wanted that. The pair continued discussing sexual activity with their “boy”, with the offender stating, “I want to groom him and make him think he’s playing a game with the grown ups. I want to passionately kiss him with you and taste him", and “[w]e will drug him then as well so as he is completely at our mercy”. He later added, “I can’t wait to feel my pedo cock pressed against yours inside a little boys tight arse” and later still sent 3 child abuse videos and 1 child abuse image.113

  1. On 12 May 2020, the offender and Gir Affe had the following conversation:114

Gir Affe:              [Sent image of himself]

Offender:             Fucking so beautiful baby

I’m imagining a little boy there in front of you

I’m imagining that you have pushed your pedo cock inside our boy for the first time

  1. The offender’s communications between 4 January and 12 May 2020 form part of Charge 1.

  1. Between June 2020 and April 2021, the offender continued his conversation with Gir Affee.

  1. On 20 October 2020, the offender sent a child abuse image to Gir Affe. In the context of discussing their ‘family’, Gir Affe said “Fuck and infect” to which the offender stated, “…The poz him together and watch him as our virus takes over”. He told Gir Affe, “Our little boy will have been so relaxed and comfortable in our company. We would’ve been spoiling him and making him feel so special and loved” and “Then we drug him. Not completely but enough so as he doesn’t know what’s happening”. Gir Affee replied, “YES. I LOVE THE SOUND OF THAT. Then we take turns making love with him until we get close and we both slide into his little tight hole together and fuck him until we breed that beautiful hole”.

  1. The following day, the offender sent a child abuse video to Gir Affe.115

  1. On 1 November 2020, Gir Affe sent a child abuse video.116 The offender later responded, “[b]abe that’s so fucking hot. I want to be there with you and him together”.117 On 22 December 2020, the offender told Gir Affe, “As soon as I realised and then accepted my peadophilia I knew that I would find another pedo to be with” and “I’d love for us to be Pedo lovers and legal partners able to be legal guardians... I want to live a life surrounded y children with my partner baby.”118

  1. On 24 January 2021, the two users had a conversation about raping children. At one stage, the offender stated, “I want to feel our pedo cocks together inside a little boy”.119

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  1. The offender’s communications between 20 October 2020 and 24 January 2021 form part of Charge 4. The child abuse material which the offender transmitted to Gir Affee depicted newborn and infant prepubescent children being penetrated by the penises of adult men.

Chat logs with M M

  1. The offender initiated contact with M M on 22 January 2020. M M immediately asked the offender if he ever “did incest with any relatives?”.120 The offender replied, “I was the eldest cousin and I used to make one of my cousins look at porn with me and Sleep in a tent with me so as I could force myself on him lol”. The offender then clarified that he was “like 12 or there abouts”. MM went on to state, “[t]hough I did shower with my dad till 3 or 4 and was let touch his cock the first time I ever actually noticed it when it was getting hard right in front of my face”. The offender replied, “[f]uck that’s so hot. I love kids in showers and baths with dads and grandparents. I would watch you fuck younger sisters [emoji].”

  1. On 30 March 2020 the offender sent 6 child abuse videos to M M.121

  1. On 3 April 2020, after exchanging explicit images/videos of themselves, the offender stated: “Hot Fucking man. I want to see your fat cock buried deep inside young boys. Opening him up before he gets fucked by a horse.”122

  1. On 14 May 2020 the offender sent a child abuse image to M M.123

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 1. The child abuse material which the offender transmitted to M M depicted prepubescent boys and girls being penetrated in the mouth, anus and vagina by adult men; a prepubescent boy being digitally penetrated in the anus by an adult male; naked newborn females; and an animated newborn male superimposed next to the erect penis of an adult man.

  1. On 3 August 2020, the offender sent three child abuse videos to M M. That communication forms part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with Bee

  1. On 6 February 2020, the offender sent a message to user ‘Bee’ on Telegram. He told Bee he was “43 gay pedo perv” and that he loved “Pre pubescent and younger”, “Down to 0+”. Bee replied that he was “15 going on 16 year[s] old”.124

  1. On 7 March 2020, the offender told Bee that he was “horny at home”.125 Following a short exchange, he sent Bee a child abuse image.126 That communication forms part of Charge 1.

Chat logs with Shardvark

  1. On 26 November 2019 the offender commenced a conversation with user, shardvark.127

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  1. On 7 March 2020 the offender sent shardvark a child abuse image.128 On 29 March 2020 he told shardvark that he would get some more ‘vids’.129 He added, “So hot to fuck little boys baby”. Shardvark and the offender continued to discuss having sex with children.

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 1.

  1. On 22 July 2020 the offender told shardvark he missed him.130 In the course of the conversation which followed, he sent 2 images (neither of which constitutes child abuse material).131 He added, “One plus of living where I am is that I’m right in the middle of three schools. And near a child care”. He later sent a child abuse image. During their conversation, the offender stated, “[u]se that link if you like and I can share my mega folders”.132

  1. On 29 March 2021, the offender sent shardvark images of himself in “boys underwear”.133 He added, “[w]as so horny cruising in the boys underwear section …”. The conversation continued and later the offender sent a further child abuse image.

  1. The offender’s communications on 22 July 2020 and 29 March 2021 form part of Charge 4.

  1. The transmitted images depicted an animated infant boy superimposed next to an adult erect penis; an animated prepubescent boy being penetrated in the anus by the penis of an adult male while giving a ‘thumbs-up’; and an image of a real semi-naked child strapped by the arms and ankles to a door.

Chat logs with Ryan No limits

  1. On 24 March 2020 the offender initiated contact with Telegram user, ‘Ryan No limits’, stating that he was in Australia and had “[n]o limits love younger”.134

  1. The following day, the offender said, “I want to force mt pedo cock inside a baby with you. Feel our cocks tight against each other’s inside a babys torn hole”.135 He continued to talk about how he loves ‘0+’, and stated that he is a “[f]ully accepting and proud pedo now”.136 He said he was “keen for fucking babies with other pedo brothers”137 and sent photographs he took of the child who was on the same day tour as him when in Darwin. He said he was “properly looking for places that I would be able to take him so as I could molest and rape him”.138 He also said that he was “ready to act of [sic] my instincts”.139

  1. On 29 March, in reference to a photograph of the above child, the offender said “I would love to fuck him with you”.140

  1. On 14 May 2020, the offender told Ryan, “I want my pedo cock buried deep inside a newborn”.141

    The conversation continued on 7 June 2020, when Ryan and the offender discussed raping a

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child. The offender stated, “I want to feel our pedo cocks together inside a baby boy”, and the conversation continued:142

Ryan:                  Fuck yeahhh head him screing [sic] as we abuse his little arse hard Offender:  Fuck yeah brother. I want to cruise for kids to grab with you

Snatch them and drag them away from their parents so as we can plough our hard cocks inside him

Ryan:Fuck yeah never to be seen again there babys helpless as take em back home and fuck up there insides bashing them on out big fat hard pedo cocks over and over

Offender:Fuck yeah man it’s what I want more than anything. To share little kids with another hot pedo perv in the most beautiful brutal way

  1. The offender’s communications between 25 March and 7 June 2020 form part of Charge 1.

  1. On 14 December 2020, the offender told Ryan, “I want to feel my pedo cock inside a baby”.143

    The conversation continued:

Offender:I want to feel our cocks together inside him. Tearing open as we smash his insides.

Ryan:                  Fuck yess no mercy make him scream for help as we rape his tiny body Offender:  I love that

Screaming and then passing out

Ryan:                  And continue fucking him while his passed out Offender:  Keeping him barely alive for days. Torturing

  1. The offender sent a child abuse image to Ryan,144 depicting a real prepubescent male child, standing semi-naked, exposing his penis, and an image of a semi-naked child strapped by the arms and ankles to a door. The offender added, “I want to slam him with used pins”.

  1. The communications with Ryan on 14 December 2020 form part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with PartyPigBro

  1. On 16 April 2020, the offender sent a message to Telegram user, ‘PartyPigBro’, stating, “been up for days and am desperate to be inside a Toddle”.145 Later that day, he sent a series of images to PartyPigBro, one of which constitutes child abuse material.146

  1. Party Pig and the offender continued their sexualised conversation, with the offender sending messages including: “I wanna share kids with you”; “our kids to molest and rape always”; and “I prefer boys. But I love baby’s little bald tight cunts. I’d love to breed a girl and get her pregnant as young as we could”.

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 1.

  1. On 22 July 2020 the offender stated, “I want both our hard cocks indie baby boys together”.147 The conversation continued with the users exchanging a series of child abuse images.148 The offender continued, “I want to fill our bed with baby boys that we can rape and molest every night and day”; “I want to kiss baby boys with you for days”; “We will make the best dads”; and

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I want to have our own kids to rape and breed”.149 Later that day, he told PartyPigBro that he wanted to go cruising for kids and ‘snatch’. He then sent a child abuse image.150

  1. On 5 December 2020, the offender messaged PartyPigBro stating “I need kids”.151 They had the following conversation:152

PartyPigBro:        Fuck I love your pedi dick

Breed a toddler

Offender:I want to feel it against yours inside a tiny boys hole Hehe fuck yeah

Both thinking the same thing lover

[Sent an image of two men kissing each other. A small child is sitting in one of their laps]

  1. The offender’s communications on 22 July and 5 December 2020 form part of Charge 4. The transmitted images depicted a real prepubescent male child being penetrated in the anus by the penis of an adult man and an animated infant boy superimposed next to an adult erect penis.

Chat logs with Perv

  1. On 28 April 2020 the offender sent Telegram user, Perv, a child abuse image.153 The following day, he sent 2 child abuse videos, a child abuse image, and then a further 4 child abuse videos.

  1. During their Telegram conversation, the offender said,154:

I am so in love with you. This can be one of us in bed with our own boy and each other’s boy. We will always sleep together. Our boys will be used by us both from babies. This will be the thing that forms our family. Our boys will soon enough crave the intimacy and attention that we forced upon them as babies making them associate molesting and rape by family and pedo friends as true love. I’m so horny imaging us 4 together as pedos when our boys aren’t even teenagers.

  1. Perv sent child abuse material to the offender, and the offender responded, “Fuck that kid is gorgeous. I love his little cock. Their skin and complexion at that age is perfect. I love how creamy their complexion is and how smooth and hairless they are [emojis]”, and “Fuck I love how fat the pedos cock is. And that the kids mum is there, It will be like when we rape your nephews and their mum is there”.155

  1. On 6 May 2020 the offender sent Perv a child abuse video and 3 child abuse images.156 He then sent a further child abuse video and 3 child abuse images.157

  1. On 16 May 2020, Perv asked the offender if he had “[a]ny new perv vids?”.158 In response, the offender sent 2 child abuse videos and images.159

  1. The offender sent multiple images and videos of child abuse on 31 May 2020 and 1, 7 and 19 June 2020.160

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  1. The above communications form part of Charge 1.

  1. Between June 2020 and April 2021, the offender continued his conversation with Perv. The pair continued to exchanged child abuse material. On 6 July 2020 the offender sent an image of a child and told Perv, “I wanna go into hospitals with you baby an molest newborns like this one”.161 He sent further child abuse images and videos on 25 July 2020, 3 August 2020, 19-21 October 2020, 2-3 November 2020, 20 November 2020, 5-6 December 2020, 12 December 2020, 14 December 2020, 16 December 2020, 21 December 2020, 28 December 2020, 25 January 2021, 7 February 2021, 23 February 2021, 7 March 2021, 30 March 2021, and 2 April 2021.162

  1. The material included an animated image of a prepubescent boy crying while being penetrated in the anus by an adult male; images and videos of newborn and prepubescent boys being penetrated in the anus by adult men, and an image of an infant boy penetrating an infant girl.

  1. On 3 August 2020, the offender stated,163

Just going through our chat history baby. I love this pic and can you imagine a little boy that you arranged to be staying in our home overnight, brought into our home by his father who needed to see his boy abused to fulfill his own sexual desires. The perfect situation. Our gift to the father paid for by his gift to us. All fucking raping him together.

  1. On 22 November 2020 the offender said “[b]aby I love you so much I want us to be married. I want to rape your little nieces and nephews with you so badly. I want to do it in front of their parents.”164

  1. On 25 January 2021, the offender sent a link to an article entitled “Australian child sex ring uncovered after arrest of Justin Radford”. The offender added, “I have been loving this story”.165

  1. The offender’s communications between 6 July 2020 and 2 April 2021 form part of Charge 4.

  1. Throughout the above conversations, the offender also accessed (and responded to) child abuse material sent to him by Perv. Specifically, Charge 3 includes the offender’s access of child abuse material on 29 April 2020, 15 May 2020, 16 May 2020, 6 June 2020, 19 June 2020 and 22 June 2020. Charge 5 includes the offender’s access of child abuse material on 6 July 2020, 7 July 2020, 7 July 2020, 3 August 2020, 20 October 2020, 19 November 2020 (x2), 24 November 2020, 5 December 2020, 14 December 2020, 21 December 2020, 3 January 2021, 13 January 2021 and 22 February 2021.

Chat logs with Baby Storage C

  1. On 15 May 2020, the offender transmitted 4 child abuse images to a group called, Baby Storage C, on Telegram.166 It is unknown how many members were present in the group at that time. This conduct forms part of Charge 1.

  1. On 17 December 2020, the offender sent a message to the same group stating “Hey pervs. He followed this by transmitting 2 child abuse images and an image depicting a Xanax lollipop.167 The transmission of the 2 child abuse images forms part of Charge 4.

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Chat logs with Travis Barron

  1. On 15 May 2020, the offender communicated with another Telegram user, Travis Barron. During this conversation, the offender received child abuse material in the form of images and videos. He responded to the images and videos and on one occasion told Travis, “The vids I like the most”. The offender’s access of this material forms part of Charge 3.

  1. The material involved infant boys either naked or semi-naked, bound by the legs and hung from a platform while being beaten with a sandal by an adult male. The boys were then dragged across the ground before being beaten again. Further material included depictions of an adult male giving birth to a child via his anus; and adult men engaging in sexual conduct with the following text superimposed over the top, “Rewarding the BF for killing a kid today”, “Hearing the Kid Scream is Enough to Make me Loose it”, and “Knowing a Kid has to Die for me to Make Money”.

  1. During their conversation, Travis asked the offender if his name was ‘Chris’,168 stating that he, “fell in love with a guy named Chris in Australia. His name was Chris he was poz and we always talked about killing and fucking kids”.169 The offender stated, “I’ve missed you babe [emojis]”.170 The conversation continued:171

Travis:  Love how we used to talk about infecting baby’s [sic] with med resistant HIV Offender:  I loved it so so much. How we were going to disappear from society so as

we could embrace pedophelia I want that so much

Travis:  Same here that would be paradise so much.

TeDdy Collection

  1. The offender was also a member of a Telegram channel named, the ‘TEDdy Collection’. Of the messages posted in the channel, 9,175 constitute child abuse material. There are 63 videos of child abuse material in the channel.

  1. The offender did not, at any time, actively participate in the channel by sending messages or responding to material posted by other users. However, there is evidence that establishes he was monitoring and/or accessing the chat log. Specifically:

a.On 7 June 2020, in the chat log between the offender and Perv, the offender forwarded several images from the TEDdy Collection;172

b.On 1 November 2020, in the chat log between the offender and Alex, the offender forwarded an image from the TEDdy Collection;173

c.On 14 December 2020, in the chat log between the offender and R G, the offender forwarded several images from the TEDdy Collection; and

d.On 3 January 2021, in the chat log between the offender and Matt B, the offender forwarded several images from the TEDdy Collection .174

  1. The conduct on 7 June 2020 forms part of Charge 3. The conduct between 1 November 2020 and 3 January 2021 forms part of Charge 5.

Chat logs with R G

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  1. On 15 February 2020, R G initiated contact with the offender on Telegram. Between 8 July 2020 and 17 April 2021, the offender transmitted a large number of child abuse videos and images:175

a.A total of 7 images and 3 videos between 7.01am and 5.02pm on 8 July 2020;

b.Several images at 5.16pm on 8 July 2020;

c.A total of 3 images and 2 videos between 5.17pm and 5.31pm;

d.2 videos and 1 image at 10.01am on 31 October 2020;

e.1 image at 5.02pm on 24 November 2020;

f.1 video at 11.21am on 5 December 2020;

g.1 video at 12.13pm on 12 December 2020;

h.1 video at 7.39pm on 14 December 2020;

i.Multiple images at 7.45pm on 14 December 2020;

j.3 images and 2 videos between 7.47pm 8.30pm on 14 December 2020;

k.Multiple videos between 7.52pm and 7.54pm on 14 December 2020;

l.1 video at 8.01pm on 2 January 2021; and

m.3 videos at 8.05am on 17 April 2021.

  1. The material included images of animated prepubescent boys engaging in anal sex with adult men, and images and videos of prepubescent boys being penetrated in the anus by adult men.

  1. In addition to the above transmissions, the offender engaged in written communications that constitutes text-based child abuse material.

  1. On 8 July 2020 after sending R G some “sneaky pics”,176 the offender stated, “I love showing them to you”. R G said, “Love boys between like 6-14. Either groomed like the last vid or even forced hehe. That can be ready [sic] hot. I love seeing anal too”. They made sexualised remarks in relation to the child abuse images the offender sent.

  1. On 3 November 2020, the offender sent R G a message stating he was “cruising in a nearby park”.177 R G responded on 5 November 2020 stating “I wish I was a young boy in that park by myself in the tight little school shorts and you took me into the bushes and felt me up as you held my mouth shut”.178 The offender replied, “Fuck yeah I wish that as well. My cock has gone instantly hard imagining that. You are such a sexy boy. There would be no doubt that I would do exactly that. As I held my hand over your mouth my other hand would be slipping underneath your shorts and pulling aside your little boy underwear”.179

  1. On 14 December 2020, in response to a video sent by the offender, R G stated “I love home vids like that. Imagine eating him out too. Soo clean”.180 The conversation continued:181

Offender:             He would taste so amazing

I’d love to eat him out with you together

R G:  Sooo good aye

He’d be moaning for sure Begging for it

Offender:             [Sent CAM – Video]

R G:  Mmmmm soo perfect

You have all the goods daddy

Offender:             Yeah he would be. In complete ecstasy. He would know what he was feeling.

He would not be expecting what we were about to do to him though baby boy R G: We’d take turns coming inside him

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176 Page 2, 06:43 (R G),

177 Page 18, 16:52.

178  Page 18, 20:45.

179 Page 19.

180 Page 22, 19:37.

Offender:Take it in turns of pushing our hard pedo cocks inside him Fuck yeah filling him with our cum

R G:  Even when he’d say stop we’d keep going

  1. The offender’s communications between 8 July 2020 and 17 April 2021 form part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with Dirty

  1. On 2 August 2020 the offender had a conversation with Telegram user, ‘Dirty’. The offender sent messages including, “I’m so ready for raping and molesting baby boys with other pedos”; “I want to make out with them for days on end”; and “I want to kiss hm with you. Him wrapped between us. Our tongues forced down his throat together”.182

  1. The following day, the offender sent 4 child abuse images and 1 child abuse video to Dirty.183

    On 22 December 2020, he sent a further child abuse image.184

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 4. The child abuse images and video depicted a real prepubescent male child being penetrated in the anus by the penis of an adult man; a newborn male child’s penis being positioned with the penis of an adult male; an animated prepubescent naked boy exposing his anus and penis, positioned next to the word “FUCK…”; and a real female toddler child, naked from the waist down, laying on her back with her leg in the air while sucking on a dummy/pacifier.

  1. On 24 February 2021, the offender and Dirty engaged in the following conversation:185

Dirty:Yeah bit the same trying to find a young tight hole Public toilet?

Offender:             Me to

Yeah public toilet at a park

Dirty:                   Nice school nearby?

Offender:Playground real close Kids out there playing

Chat logs with Alex

  1. On 1 November 2020, the offender sent a message to user ‘alex’, stating “I want to feel our cocks together inside a little boy that we have grabbed together so badly”. He continued, “Yeah fucking him so forcefully together. I love that” and proceeded to send child abuse images to alex.

  1. The offender and alex continued to discuss sexually abusing a child, with the offender stating, “Yeah both of them tearing it’s hole wide open so as we can thrust our cocks deeper inside him, pounding his insides at the same time”, and “Fuck yes. Love to poz him and then send him back to his parents so as they can watch hopeless as he is overcome with AIDS”.186

  1. The pair also discussed the child abuse material that the offender sent.187 The offender’s comments included, “Yeah I know. I love their little cocks as well”; “Fuck yeah pulling back his tight little foreskin”, and “his crying and scream making us harder”. They also discussed raping children while their father watched and making “him want to fuck his little boy as much as [they] do”.188 The offender continued, “I have a younger brother. When I was around 11 or so and he was about 6 I used to make him such my cock”. A discussion follows about mutilating a child’s

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genitals, tasting the child’s warm blood, and biting “through his little cock”.189 In the course of the conversation, the offender sent approximately 20 images and 14 videos. 190

  1. The two users conversed again on 2 January 2021,191 and the offender sent 2 child abuse images to alex.192 The conversation continued into the morning of 3 January 2021 and he sent a further child abuse image and child abuse video.193

  1. The offender sent further material on 17 January 2021, 22 February 2021 and 25 February 2021.

  1. The child abuse material depicted a prepubescent boy being masturbated while laying on an adult male with an erect penis; toddlers and infant boys being penetrated in the anus by adult males; and prepubescent boys naked while bound by the hands and feet.

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with Nudie Melb

  1. On 21 November 2020, Telegram user ‘Nudie Melb’ initiated contact with the offender. On 28 November 2020, after stating that they were both ‘horny’, the offender said “[l]ove to have my cock inside a younger hole”.194

  1. On 12 December 2020, the offender sent Nudie Melb 2 child abuse images.195 The material depicted animated images of female toddlers being penetrated in the mouth and vagina by the penis of an adult man.196

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with TylerCarson

  1. On 16 December 2020, the offender sent a message to TylerCarson on Telegram. Later that day, he sent a child abuse image to him.197

  1. On 27 December 2020, the offender sent 8 child abuse images to TylerCarson.198 He went on to state: “Fuck I want to rape babies with you”.199

  1. On 18 January 2021, the offender sent messages to TylerCarson which included: “Me and nephews at Christmas” and “I want to molest them so badly with you”. He accompanied the messages with a child abuse image (not of his nephews).200 The offender continued,

I’m getting so so pervy with them. I need another pedo to force me to take the next step. I’d love if it was you…

…I want to have sex with children and babies more than anything including the consequences of getting caught I want to offend soon knowing that from then I will want to again and that hopefully

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190 Page 5-27.

191 Page 64.

192 Page 65, 22:16.

193 Page 67.

194 Page 3, 18:51.

195 Page 5.

196 Statement of Facts, [114].

197 Page 10, 12:03.

198 Pages 11-13.

199 Page 14.

it will then be more and more often. For me I can’t imagine anything more amazing than offending together and becoming a pedophile with the man that helped me make it happen. That act would tie us together forever.

  1. On 24 January 2021 the offender said that he “[s]pent the day at the beach. So many hot little boys”.201 He added, “Fuck yeah. Swimming out with a little boy together and molesting him under the water In front of everyone on the beach But no one able to see what we are doing”.202

  1. On 26 January 2021 the offender sent a child abuse image to TylerCarson.203 On 22 February 2021 he sent a further 2 child abuse images.204 Later that day, he sent an image of his family (not child abuse material) and said, “That’s my brother and my youngest brothers daughter”; and “I used to make him suck my cock when we were younger”.205 He later sent a further 2 images of child abuse material.

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 4. The images transmitted by the offender depicted animated and real images of infant children being penetrated in the mouth and anus by adult men; and images and videos of an infant male child and a prepubescent child bound by the arms and feet and being penetrated in the anus.

  1. On 8 March 2021, the offender stated, “I have a huge pedo crush on you bro. Would like to offend with you often and regularly” and “Fuck yes. 2 Proud pedos together. Living our lives lives less complicated by only doing what we love. Child prn and child sex as life should be”.206

Chat logs with Micky Mischa

  1. On 17 December 2020 the offender sent a child abuse image to Telegram user, MickyMischa.207 The image depicted a bound, naked prepubescent male. MickyMischa replied, “Beautiful kid” and “I hope he died suffering”. The offender said, “Fuck yeah. Me to brother”.

  1. On 28 December 2020 the offender sent a child abuse video to MickyMischa.208 The video depicted a prepubescent female being penetrated in the anus by an adult male’s penis.

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with K Mac

  1. On 20 October 2020 the offender engaged in a conversation with Telegram user, ‘K Mac’.209 After exchanging pictures, K Mac said, “We need to do some boys. Any limits”. The offender replied, “No limits. Love brutal. Would love to DP a toddler with you”.

  1. On 21 December 2020 the offender sent a child abuse image to K Mac.210 He added, “Horny as fuck bro. Wanting to be inside little boys”.211

  1. On 27 December 2020, the offender sent K Mac 8 child abuse images and 3 child abuse videos.212

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211 Page 5, 21:40.

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 4. The images and videos transmitted during the communications depicted animated male children masturbating adult men, and newborn and prepubescent male children being penetrated in the anus by adult men or foreign objects.

Chat logs with D

  1. On 5 December 2020, the offender sent a message to user ‘D’ on Telegram. The conversation continued on 22 December 2020, on which date the offender sent a child abuse image to D.213 The image depicted an animated prepubescent boy masturbating an animated adult male.

  1. The transmission of the image on 22 December 2020 forms part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with J Dean

  1. On 26 December 2020, Telegram user ‘J Dean’ sent a message to the offender, asking if the offender liked ‘0+’, to which the offender replied, “I definitely do”.214 J Dean said, “They just look funny to me at that stage, with a mouthful of cock…. but gotta start em asap”. The offender responded, “I fucking love seeing a fat pedo cock opening up a tight unopened hole”. The conversation continued and the following day, the offender sent a child abuse image.215

  1. The above communications form part of Charge 4.

Chat logs with Awkward Guy

  1. On 28 December 2020, Telegram user ‘Awkward Guy’ initiated contact with the offender.

    During the conversation, the offender sent a number of images and videos including:216

a.A photograph of the offender next to a child while they were both in a pool (not child abuse material);

b.A photograph which appears to depict the offender on the ground with three children (not child abuse material);

c.6 videos which have been identified as child abuse material; and

d.2 images which have been identified as child abuse material.

  1. The 6 videos and 2 images of child abuse form part of Charge 4. The material depicts prepubescent boys being penetrated in the anus by the penises of adult men; and an animated prepubescent boy being penetrated in the mouth and anus by the penis and fingers of an adult male.

  1. After the transmission of the child abuse material, Awkward Guy stated, “Of fuck. Shouldn’t you send those in a secret message?’ and the offender replied, “Ah I probably should of. My apologies”.217

  1. On 26 February 2021, the offender sent Awkward Guy a video of him “cruising for boys in a local park”.218 On 6 March 2021, he said that he “wish[es] there was [sic] some little boys closer by”,219 and that he would “love to be there with [Awkward Guy]. Us both together cruising for little boys”.220

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218  Page 12, 16:45.

219  Page 12, 17:43.

220  Page 12, 20:17.

Chat logs with AMINO AC

  1. On 29 December 2020 the offender commenced a conversation with Telegram user, Amino AC.221 The offender told Amino, “I would love to feel them together inside a boy. I’m 43 gay pedo perv in Australia”.222 He later sent 11 child abuse images in the chat. He asked if Amino had any younger nephews or brothers, and the conversation continued:223

Offender:I want to such his tiny little cock hard then while you push your hard pedo cock agiinst [sic] his tiny little arse hole

[Sent an image of two topless men kissing while a topless child sits in the lap of one of the men]

Amino:I wanna teach him how to eat your hole right. His lil tongue following mine all around your sweet manhole

Offender:             I love that. A proper little family

I never stop thinking about being with and fucking little boys

  1. The offender and ‘Amino’ continued to discuss raping a child, with the offender’s messages including:

a.“Knowing that he always would finish up naked used and even abused between us’, ‘It would make our bond even stronger”;

b.“I want to go on proper pedo child sex vacations”;

c.“He can fuck us both as well with his hard little cock. Oh yeah making him dry orgasm. To young to cum”;

d.“Fuck yes. I want him to be used by us brutally and extremely so as he will never be afraid when our friends have him to use”;

e.“I want his first slam to be our used pins”; and

f.“We will bring him up to love and crave meth from the start”.

  1. On 25 January 2021, the offender said he “Spent today at the beach perving on little boys”. He added, “Or dragged him into the deeper water and molested him under the water in front of everyone back on the beach.”224 He sent 3 child abuse images to Amino.225 The pair continued to discuss sexually assaulting children, and the offender stated, “Oh yeah. Kissing him passionately and deeply. Smothering him as I flood his tiny mouth with your pre cum”. He sent another child abuse image, before stating: “I want to feel our cocks both pressed against the tiny little hole of our little boy”.

  1. Later, he sent a message: “This is a news article about the guy that worked in child care that I mentioned”226 and included a link to an article entitled “Gay Couple at Centre of Childcare Centre Paedophile Ring”.

  1. The conversation continued later that day. He told Amino, “The one I want more than any is our first actual offence. Everything will seem so much easier after that” and said:

Anything I imagine is always with another pedo. I really want to integrate myself into a position where I have access to children in a responsible position. So where I can properly groom and manipulate little boys that have been left in my are [sic] by their parents. I want to use and abuse these boys then with you.

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222 Page 3, from 01:25.

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224  Page 20, at 03:19.

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226  Page 24.

  1. He added, “That’s what I think I’m lacking now more than anything. A pedo partner or at least experienced mentor to help make my first offence happen. I love the idea of it being with my future pedo partner as well. That whole experience would be amazing”. He told Amino:

The perfect partnership. Legally Married and able to adopt our own boys to groom and molest and raise our little pedos, whilst helping at [sic] roles where we can access other people’s kids through the week at [sic] then getting out complete freak on whenever we can out cruising for boys to kidnap and abuse together. Pozzing little boys together.

  1. The following day, on 26 January 2021, the offender sent a child abuse image to Amino.227 On 4 February 2021 he sent a further 2 child abuse images. At the time, he added, “I want to do this with my nephews with you baby”.228

  1. The offender’s communications between 29 December 2020 and 4 February 2021 form part of Charge 4. The child abuse images sent by the offender depicted newborn babies and infants being penetrated in the anus by the penises of adult men; a naked prepubescent boy bound by the hands and feet and positioned to expose his penis; an animated boy watching pornographic material while exposing his anus and testicles with a quotation, “Do you wanna try that?”.

Chat logs with iPad 21

  1. On 18 January 2021 the offender commenced a conversation with Telegram user, ‘iPad 21’. The offender stated “Sexy pedo”, to which iPad 21 replied “Fuck yes”. The offender then sent several images to iPad 21, including a photograph of himself.229 He went on to reference “Cruising around for kids together” and later send a link to an article titled “Sydney Man Charges Over Online Child Sex Abuse Network”.230

  1. The following day the offender sent a child abuse image to iPad 21. He stated, “I’ve had to get my pedo cock out now to wank and perv thinking of me being your dad”.231 He sent further child abuse images on 25 January 2021, 4 February 2021 and 22 February 2021.232

  1. The communications sent by the offender between 19 January and 22 February 2021 form part of Charge 4. The images transmitted by him included depictions of an infant boy being digitally penetrated in the anus; and animated prepubescent boys being penetrated in the anus by the penises of adult men.

  1. On 2 April 2021 the offender sent iPad 21 a series of images of himself wearing “boys [sic] underwear”.233 User iPad 21 told the offender that he is going to the beach with his family, and the offender responded, “Ah nice. Any younger members”.234

Chat logs with Yustin Lop

  1. On 5 February 2021 the offender commenced a conversation with Telegram user, Yustin Lop.235 The offender stated he is “43 gay pedo perv in Australia” and added “I love 12 and younger. Favourite toddlers down to 0+”.236

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236 Page 3, 09:43.

  1. Yustin Lop sent the offender an image that depicted nine boys, of decreasing age, standing in a line and numbered 1 to 9.237 In response, the offender stated “Number 8 for me”. Later Yustin Lop asked if the offender had a picture like that, and the offender sent a child abuse image. The image depicted an animated prepubescent boy being penetrated in the anus by the penis of an adult male while giving a ‘thumbs-up’.238 That transmission forms part of Charge 4.

Saved messages

  1. Within the Telegram application, the offender had also saved a selection of material from multiple sources, such as group chats, individual chats and unknown sites. The material ranged from 21 September 2019 to 29 April 2020 and includes 100 images and 183 videos which have been identified as child abuse material. This conduct forms part of Charge 3.

Possession of Child Abuse Material (Charge 6)

  1. On Friday 23 April 2021, members from the Victorian JACET executed a search warrant at the home address of the offender. The offender was present and was later arrested.

  1. During the search, an Apple iPhone belonging to the offender was located and seized. Analysis of the phone revealed 64 images of child abuse material stored on the device within the folder “Cutie & Dad”. The images are a series depicting the same prepubescent boy and adult male, with each image dated 1 April 2020.

  1. In addition, the child abuse material shared via Telegram (as described above) was also located on the device. The images and videos possessed throughout each of these chats can be broken down approximately as follows:

Other User CAM Transmitted by Offender CAM Transmitted by other User
Amino AC

17 CAM files

(17 images)

-
Akward Guy

8 CAM Files

(2 images and 6 videos)

-
BMelb28

21 CAM Files

(14 images and 7 videos)

-
ccwilly

11 CAM Files

(6 images and 5 videos)

27 CAM Files

(27 images)

Dirty

6 CAM Files

(5 images and 1 video)

-
iPad21

4 CAM Files

(4 images)

1 CAM File

(1 image)

J T

5 CAM Files

(4 images and 1 video)

Text based CAM
JL Jr

7 CAM Files

(7 images)

-
K Mac

12 CAM Files

(9 images and 3 videos)

-
Man guy

15 CP Files

(1 image and 14 videos)

89 CAM Files

(44 images and 45 videos)

30 CAM Files
(14 images and 16 videos)
MickyMischa

2 CAM Files

(1 image and 1 video)

-
Nudie Melb

2 CAM Files

(2 images)

-

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PartyPigBro

3 CAM Files

(3 images)

-

Ryan No Limits,

pm open

1 CAM File

(1 image)

1 CAM File

(1 image)

Shardvark

3 CAM Files

(3 images)

-
SL

4 CAM Files

(4 images)

-
Spunk Witch

1 CAM file

(1 video)

-
Travis Barron -

5 CAM Files

(4 images and 1 video)

Yustin Lop

1 CAM File

(1 image)

-
Total

212 CAM/CP Files

(128 images and 84 videos)

64 CAM Files

(47 images and 17 videos)

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