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ARTICLE · 01 JANUARY 2023

Child abuse offences in Australia

In NSW, it is a criminal offence to use children to produce child abuse material or to produce, possess, or disseminate it.

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A paedophile from Western Australia has been sentenced to 25 years in jail after sexually abusing 22 children over a 6-year period.

Various child exploitation videos were exposed after his ex-wife became sceptical of a blank USB she found and ran file recovery software.

The 47-year-old man had set up secret recording devices in areas of the house such as bathrooms and bedrooms to video children between the ages of two and 12 getting changed.

The man abused his own children and friends when they came over for sleepovers evidenced by a go-pro camera that he strapped onto his head to film himself abusing and violating them.

The man drugged his own daughter with an over-the-counter sedative to which she called was from a "hidey-hole-pocket in his car" so she was not conscious during the horrific acts.

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