Eleven SA men face more than 200 child exploitation material charges
A Barossa pervert, a suburban peeping Tom and a man perpetuating horrific crimes against his own child were all caught at part of a global sting – see the list here.
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Collectors, producers and distributors of some of the most abhorrent child-abuse material police have ever seen were bought down by their use of an online cloud storage app.
On Wednesday, the Australia Federal Police concluded Operation Molto, a two-year international initiative targeting purveyors of child exploitation material.
The Advertiser can reveal the identities of 11 South Australian men who were arrested, charged and, in some cases, jailed for their offending.
In one case, the child-exploitation material found on a man’s phone led police to discover he was abusing his own three-year-old child.
That man, who cannot be named to protect his victim, was jailed for more than 14 years for his crimes.
In several other cases, the investigation into child exploitation material led police to other images which had been filmed by the offenders themselves.
Operation Molto was launched in 2019 after the New Zealand Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs identified thousands of offenders were using an online cloud storage platform to share child exploitation material.
The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation has since removed 51 children from potential harm at the hands of these men.
Some of the offenders in Australia were found in possession of images linked to Operation Niro, a 2015 international task force which dismantled a global paedophile ring.
The material made by those offenders was classified by the AFP as “the most abhorrent produced” and continues to be found in the collections of offenders from across the world.
The Operation was known locally as Operation H and included arrests from around the world.
AFP Assistant Commissioner Lesa Gale said “viewing, distributing or producing child abuse material is a horrific crime”.
“Children are not commodities and the AFP and its partner agencies work around-the-clock to identify and prosecute offenders.”
Richard Perrey
A Barossa man caught with more than 300 videos he filmed of children playing outside.
Police also found screen shots and videos Perrey had filmed of live streamed shows online featuring underage girls.
The offending lasted at least one year and ten months.
During sentencing, District Court Judge Liesl Kudelka said Perrey had sent messages encouraging the girls to commit sexual acts.
The live streaming service allows for multiple people to witness the abuse as it happened live.
“It is abhorrent that children are being exploited in this way,” Judge Kudelka said.
The father of several of the children told the court he felt devastated at the invasion of privacy and guilty that other children had come to his house and been filmed in the same way.
Perrey was sentenced to five years in prison with a non-parole period of two years and six months.
The sentence was backdated to Perrey’s arrest in August 2020.
Luke Tregloan
Pleaded guilty to multiple counts of indecent filming and possessing child exploitation material.
When police searched Tregloan’s home searching for the child exploitation material they found images and videos he had filmed through the windows of homes in the surrounding streets.
Some of the images included women in states of undress or engaged in sexual activity.
Tregloan, a children’s app creator, apologised to his victims in court.
He was sentenced to 16 months for the child abuse material and 18 months for the indecent filming with a non-parole period of nine months.
Judge Joana Fuller ordered that Tregloan serve the sentence on home detention bail and urged him to seek treatment.
Jadd Brooker
Repeat sex offender who has pleaded guilty to hundreds of offences relating to the abuse and grooming of children.
Among the raft of offences levelled at Brooker related to tens of thousands of images and videos of child exploitation among millions of files on his phones, computers and USBs.
Some of the abuse material was made by Brooker with a young teenage victim.
He was also charged with grooming multiple teens and children online using a variety of different apps.
He has pleaded guilty to all charges and is facing the prospect of an indefinite term of imprisonment under laws designed to protect the community from uncontrollable predators.
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A man in his 20s who is currently serving more than 14 years in custody for the abuse of his young child.
He was initially arrested and charged with possessing child exploitation material but as police delved deeper they found images of the man abusing his three-year-old child.
He was charged with contact offending towards the child and has remained in custody since his arrest.
Last year he was sentenced by a District Court Judge who dismissed all submissions the man made in mitigation of his sentence and ruled it was some of the most serious offending she had come across.
She sentenced the man to 14 years, two months and five days in custody with a non-parole period of 11 years, 10 months and 25 days.
With time served he will be eligible for parole in 2032.
Branden James Inkley
22-year-old man from the Mount Barker charged with obtaining access to child exploitation material as well disseminating and possessing the material.
He pleaded guilty to all three charges and will face court again in May.
Cameron Henley-Fridmanis
A 21-year-old man who told the court the District Court he began watching bestiality, sadism and child sexual abuse out of “boredom”.
He was caught with 317 images and videos featuring the abuse of children as young as 12.
He was charged and later pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child exploitation material.
He was later diagnosed as having pornography addiction.
Judge Liesl Kudelka, during sentencing, said Henley-Fridmanis’ offending fuelled the industry for child exploitation material.
She sentenced Henley-Fridmanis to one year and one month in prison, but suspended the sentence once he had entered into a three year good behaviour bond.
Clinton Trevor Butler
38-year-old Bordertown man charged with aggravated and basic child exploitation material offences.
He has pleaded guilty to charges which occurred in February last year at Aldinga.
He will appear in the District Court later this month for sentencing submissions.
Brendan Nazer
20-year-old man charged with two counts of aggravated possessing child exploitation material.
He pleaded guilty to the charges in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
During sentencing submissions the court heard Police searched his home on August 2, 2020- and found a mobile phone in Nazer’s bedroom contained 25 video files depicting child abuse, with 17 of them containing children under the age of 14.
He was sentenced to two year and one month with a non-parole period of 13 months.
District Court Judge Adam Kimber suspended Nazer’s sentence once he had entered into a two year good behaviour bond.
Luke Pickering
Arrested after police became aware he was downloading images of young girls being sexually abused online.
Pickering was charged with one count of possession or control of child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service.
He was further charged with three counts of using a carriage service to access child abuse material.
Federal prosecutors have also laid four further counts, of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material.
He has since pleaded guilty to those charges and will face the District Court for sentencing submissions next month.
Terry Rincon
Was charged with possessing and controlling child exploitation material and additional charges of using a carriage service to transmit or possess abuse material.
Mr Rincon pleaded not guilty in the magistrates court to the offences.
During arraignment in the District Court in December his lawyer indicated they would be pursuing a mental incompetence defence.
The 41-year-old northern suburbs man will appear in court again later this year.
John Michael Toye
Has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of possessing and accessing child exploitation material as a result of Operation Molto.
He will appear in court again in June for sentencing submissions.
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