Prosecutors launch bid to have Australia’s worst-ever child sex predator, Jadd William Brooker, jailed indefinitely for his crimes

He’s the worst child sex offender in Australian history – now prosecutors will push for him to be locked away indefinitely, potentially never to be released.

An HIV-positive pedophile who has made history as Australia’s worst-ever child sex offender is an uncontrollable predator who should remain behind bars indefinitely, a court has heard.

On Tuesday, prosecutors told the District Court they would seek to have Jadd William Brooker’s case transferred to the Supreme Court.

Once there, they will use laws that were enacted following a campaign by The Advertiser to have Brooker declared incapable of, or unwilling to, control his sexual instincts.

If the bid is successful, Brooker will still receive a prison term for his 182 crimes against children and teenagers in Australia and around the world – but not a non-parole period.

Instead, he will stay in jail unless or until two mental health experts agree he has learned to manage, or is willing to exercise control over, his perverted desires.

Because of a campaign by The Advertiser, the Carly Ryan Foundation and the abuse survivor known as “XX”, neither age nor institutionalisation will secure Brooker’s release.

Some of SA’s most infamous sex criminals are serving indefinite periods of detention, including kidnapper Colin Charles Humphreys and murderer Mark Errin Rust.

Jadd William Brooker has pleaded guilty to an Australian-record 182 child sex crimes.

Brooker, 39, of Glenelg East, was the central player in an SA-based, online pedophile ring that included former SA Labor adviser Benjamin John Waters.

Among the millions of pieces of data on Brooker’s computers were conversations in which he vowed to infect children and adults with HIV – one of his victims later took his own life.

Veteran police detectives have dubbed his record-breaking number of online and in-person crimes “the worst and most degrading” they have ever investigated.

On Tuesday, Tim Clarke, for Brooker, said his client’s charges were spread across three different court files that should be consolidated in the District Court.

He asked the case be adjourned until January to allow that to happen – Lucy Boord, prosecuting, said the case’s proper venue was a higher jurisdiction.

“I’m instructed to make an (indefinite detention) application in relation to Brooker once all of the files are before the District Court,” she said.

“It will then be requested that the matter be referred to the Supreme Court.”

She said that application would be based on two expert reports which had yet to be sourced, and would likely not be ready until early in the new year.

Judge Geraldine Davison said she had “anticipated being the sentencing judge” for all matters, but understood the application.

She remanded Brooker in custody until January, when all three court files will be in the District Court, for the matter to be referred.