Suspended term over child porn videos

23 Nov 2010, 6:17 pm   -   Source: AAP
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A man has been given a suspended sentence after being caught with more than 7500 child porn pictures and videos.

A 62-year-old South Australian man was caught with more than 7500 child porn pictures and videos on a home computer after federal police were tipped off, a court has heard.

Geoffrey Alan Slater, from Goolwa, south of Adelaide, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and using a carriage service to access child pornography.

Imposing sentence in the SA District Court on Tuesday, Judge David Lovell said Slater had uploaded seven videos to a child porn internet site in September and November last year, drawing the attention of the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children who contacted federal police.

The judge said of all the material found on Slater's computer, 28 images and five videos were in the most serious category.

The worst video featured a boy aged about 10 who had been tied up and was being raped by an adult.

Judge Lovell said Slater's offending was serious.

"There is clearly an international market in child pornography and those who are a part of the market for this material share the responsibility for what is done to the children depicted," he said.

"The courts have said on a number of occasions that the creation and dissemination of child pornography material is a serious social evil, and those who acquire and use such material must be held accountable for the part they play in the persistence of it."

The judge jailed Slater for 18 months with a non-parole period of six months.

He suspended the sentence, placing the man on a three-year good behaviour bond.

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