A 42-year-old Darwin man charged with dozens of child abuse crimes, including sexual relationship with family members under the age of 10 without consent, was sentenced Thursday (24 September) by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory to six years' imprisonment and four years' non-parole, a sentence controversial, especially as some child protection organizations considered the punishment too light.
Northern Territory Supreme Court
The man pleaded guilty to 28 crimes between 2014 and 2018, including possession of child abuse materials and indecent images of children.
On Thursday, the case was heard in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, where Graham Haley (Graham Hiley) judge was presiding judge, After the trial, he told journalist that the victims included the man's youngest daughter, niece and two other young girls, who seemed unaware of the acts.
judge hayley revealed that in 2018, a former partner in 2018 when a former partner (with a son and a daughter) of the criminal checked his cell phone, when his former partner found him and his daughter's make love photo, on the cell phone a few days after his former partner called the police.
The police then seized the man's cell phone and laptop computer, and after digital analysis, more than 2,000 images of child abuse were found on the equipment, including indecent images of the offender's daughter (then aged 1 to 5) and other young victims photo, some of which were processed using photo editing software.
The man was also found secretly filming private photo. in women's groin and buttock parts at shopping malls in Darwin in the second half of 2017
During the sentencing process, judge Hayley stated that such violations were likely to have a long-term impact on the man's family. Moreover, judge Hayley referred to the opinion of the defence lawer and to a psychiatric report the criminal's frequent use of methamphetamine was one of the causes of the crime.
In Thursday's trial, the man was sentenced to six years in prison, starting on the day of his arrest in June 2018. Healy judge admitted that the sentence was a lighter sentence than his crime, but this was due to the fact that the man man and the fact of active cooperation with the police.
However, even if Hayley judge explained the reasons for the light sentence, there are still many people on the Internet to challenge the sentence, think that the sentence is too short is more common, but a small number of people think the sentence is reasonable.
For the purpose of protecting the citizen's right to privacy, the specific names of the perpetrators and victims of the case are not made public, and the court has ordered the destruction of all the materials involved.
