Naim Louis Anderson jailed for six years by SA court, which reveals his escalating abuse offending against children as young as seven

An Adelaide man who groomed girls around the world for sex has been jailed – and a judge has revealed his crimes escalated after police warned him to stop.

Naim Louis Anderson was given every opportunity to end his perverted ways and turn his life around.

Before his 19th birthday, he was visited by police and formally warned to stop contacting teenage girls online.

Thanks to intel from the FBI in the United States, detectives suspected – correctly – that Anderson was grooming girls around the world for sex.

But even being caught in a sting operation – where his next victim was really an undercover officer – did not curb Anderson’s unlawful appetite.

Granted bail, he abused that privilege by breaching his release conditions and going online to access pornography.

On Tuesday, the District Court sentenced Anderson to six years’ jail for his crimes – and revealed they were even worse than previously known.

Naim Louis Anderson outside court, prior to breaching his bail by accessing online pornography. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Roy VanDerVegt.

Judge Julie McIntyre said Anderson had also offered to pay a person to abuse a girl, 7, while he watched online and, when they refused, tried to change their mind.

“It is regrettable you did not heed the police’s warning … indeed, there was an apparent escalation of your offending,” she said.

“You were insistent, even aggressively insistent (with your victims) … you said ‘I really only want young and taboo, the stuff that’s hard to find’.

“Imprisonment is the only appropriate penalty.”

Anderson, 21, of Evanston Gardens, pleaded guilty to 13 abuse charges involving the solicitation, procurement and transmission of sexual activity with children.

The last of Anderson’s many victims was actually an undercover police officer who arrested him. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Roy VanDerVegt.

On Tuesday, his victims – who live overseas – watched by video link as Judge McIntyre said “no one could be unmoved” by their plight.

“The consequences, for them, will be lifelong and far-reaching,” she said.

“They have to live with the fear images and videos of them may exist on the internet and resurface at any time.”

She noted Anderson’s numerous physical, mental and emotional disabilities, as well as his letter of apology, but said they “can only explain, not excuse” his crimes.

“The material (you collated) was of a highly deviant, degrading and serious nature,” she said.

She imposed a three-year non-parole period, meaning Anderson will be eligible to apply for release in February 2025.