Reece George indecently filmed young children in Port Lincoln community

A Port Lincoln pedophile who secretly filmed women and children as young as three to meet his perverted needs will learn his fate later this month.

A country pedophile who indecently filmed children as young as three – including upskirting – will learn his fate later this month.

Reece George, 39, was persistent in satisfying his twisted desires, which he said was a form of escapism.

During further sentencing submissions on Monday, the court heard George acted upon his sexual urges by possessing child exploitation material and regularly indecently filming young children.

The court heard there were images of women and children – some aged as young as three – with bare legs or wearing yoga pants or leggings.

“Mr George was travelling around the Port Lincoln community with various cameras honing in on women and children in tight fitting clothing or in some circumstances where it’s obviously more indecent, upskirting,” Tania Stevens, prosecuting, said.

Reece George pleaded guilty to multiple counts of indecent filming. Picture: Facebook

Last month, the court heard George was caught with child exploitation material in April 2019 and January 2021.

The offending was aggravated as George possessed the material knowing the victims were under the age of 14.

“And then in January 2022 he was actually caught in the act of indecent filming in a Kmart store in Port Lincoln,” Ms Stevens said.

Ms Stevens said it was evident George met the criteria for a pedophilic disorder.

“He has in the (psychological) report described experiencing sexual arousal towards pre-pubescent females,” she said.

George, of Port Lincoln, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of possessing child exploitation material and indecent filming.

Sally Burgess, for George, said her client acknowledged it was very serious offending and involved real victims.

Ms Burgess said George was in a relationship with a woman who cheated on him and was left negatively affected by it.

“Whilst on one hand he wanted to engage in a ‘normal’ relationship, (he) also found himself attracted to young children,” she said.

“He describes in his words his offending as a form of escapism – escaping his past, escaping his problems, escaping his thought processes of these thoughts towards children.”

The court heard George’s traumatic childhood, drug use and lack of continual employment contributed to his offending.

Ms Burgess said George, who had previously worked as a panel beater and in the abalone fishing industry, wanted to return to work once released from custody.

Judge Emily Telfer will sentence George later this month.