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Tasmanian man jailed for five years for possessing and producing ‘depraved’ child sex abuse material
A 42-year-old man from Invermay in Tasmania’s north has been sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to 19 charges relating to the most extreme classification level of child abuse material.
Warning this story contains graphic details which may distress some readers
Key points:
- The man was arrested in August 2020 and has been in custody since
- The court heard it was a case of very serious offending over a long period
- He will be eligible to apply for parole after serving three years
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with using a carriage service to access child pornography, possessing child abuse material, soliciting child exploitation material and the production of child exploitation material.
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