Boe Jackson jailed for more than two years for collection of real and anime child-exploitation material

After he was labelled a child-sex offender, an anime and “taboo” porn addict decided to download the real thing, a court has heard.

A young man obsessed with “taboo” pornography and anime has been jailed for possessing hundreds of animated images of children as young as toddlers being abused.

Boe Jackson, 26, was jailed for one month in 2020 and had the rest of a seven-month sentence suspended in the Christies Beach Magistrates Court for possessing hundreds of animated abuse images.

But in court earlier this month Jackson’s lawyer said that his conviction for possessing the abhorrent images led him down the road of downloading images of the abuse of real children.

While serving a two-year good-behaviour bond linked to the suspended sentence, police found more abuse material on his phone and stored online during a raid in January this year.

Last week Judge Paul Muscat said the material found on Jackson’s devices was “totally unacceptable" and the young man was clearly in need of treatment.

On Jackson’s phone police found six photos of real young girls being abused.

The photos were in a file marked “Hot Taboo”.

Jackson claimed through his lawyer Indiana Davis he felt he had been labelled a child-sex offender after his first sentencing in the Christies Beach Magistrates Court and was “curious” about the “real thing”.

Boe Jackson has been jailed for possessing large amounts of anime child exploitation material featuring children as young as toddlers being abused. Picture: Facebook.

Judge Muscat refused to accept that submission – saying that the only conclusion to be drawn was that Jackson had a sexual interest in young children.

On cloud storage police found 841 animated images and videos of young girls, some as young as toddlers, being “violently sexually abused”.

Jackson told police he was into “anime and cartoon pornography”, but said he knew the difference between the real world and online.

“Fantasy is fantasy and real life is real life,” he told police.

Judge Muscat referred to case law from around the country, which held that though animated child-exploitation material was not as serious as images of the abuse of real children, it was still a “corrupting” influence that desensitised people.

He also said Jackson’s willingness to download more child-abuse material while on a good-behaviour bond made the offending more serious.

“It is extremely concerning that given your sexual interest in child-exploitation material you commit such an act while subject to (a good-behaviour) bond,” Judge Muscat said.

Judge Muscat revoked Jackson’s suspended sentence for the earlier offending, leaving the 26-year-old with a total sentence of two years and seven days in custody.

A non-parole period of 14 months was imposed.

With time already served Jackson will be eligible for parole in September next year.