SA pedophile mastermind Jadd William Brooker discussed sex trafficking babies and toddlers before arrest, court told

Deceitful, manipulative, without empathy – a court has heard what lurks inside pedophile Jadd William Brooker, and have been warned his crimes could have been even worse.

Pedophile Jadd William Brooker has no empathy nor remorse, is deceitful and manipulative, and has grandiose views about himself, a court has heard.

The HIV-positive pedophile who led the state’s online child abuse syndicate could have escalated to trafficking babies and toddlers for sex if not apprehended, a court has heard.

This week, the Supreme Court was taken inside the mind of Jadd William Brooker – and told he is a deceitful, manipulative and dishonest pervert with no remorse for his crimes, no empathy for his victims and a grandiose view of himself.

Prosecutors urged the court to declare Brooker an uncontrollable predator and jail him indefinitely, using laws created following a campaign by victim advocates and The Advertiser.

Giving sworn evidence, Dr Narain Nambiar, clinical director of the state’s Forensic Mental Health Service, told the court Brooker posed a high risk of reoffending.

He said Brooker’s conversations with other syndicate members demonstrated the extreme lengths to which he was prepared to go to abuse children.

Psychiatrist Dr. Narain Nambiar assessed Brooker and says he is unwilling to control his sexual instincts. Picture: Greg Higgs.

“Brooker demonstrates a particular attitude that supports sexual exploitation and violence, and encouraging others to engage in that behaviour,” he said.

“In one conversation, he discussed the sexual trafficking and selling of children … while there’s no evidence he did that, whether he engaged in it or not, he encouraged it.

“He possessed images of very young babies and toddlers with violent sex acts being performed against them.

“If we look at the diverse and prolific nature of his offending, there were always lines being crossed … we really don’t know, if he weren’t caught, how far he might have gone.”

Brooker, 41, pleaded guilty to having committed 182 sexual abuse and exploitation offences against children and teenagers in Australia and around the world.

Before he was caught by the elite Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team, Brooker had told his syndicate he wanted to infect children with HIV, and filmed himself doing so.

That child was one of more than 20 he pursued, both in person and online, for sex, amassing 4.5 million images and 50,000 messages of child exploitation.

The children abused by Brooker, who also led an abuse-sharing online syndicate, say he is a parasite and a monster.

This week, some of those victims dubbed Brooker “a parasite” who had “left a piece of himself” in every child whose innocence he destroyed.

In his evidence, Dr Nambiar said Brooker had a loving adult partner – who knew nothing of his crimes and was not involved with them – throughout his offending.

He said Brooker also had “numerous other” consenting adult sexual partners over the same period, and his willingness to infect children with HIV extended to those adults as well.

Brooker, he said, did not wear condoms, lied to his partners and even his doctor about his health and was “inconsistent” in taking his medication.

“If he’s deceitful, how can you believe him if he says he’s willing to engage in treatment and willing not to reoffend?” he said.

“All of those things need to be taken with a large grain of salt.”

Brooker, he said, demonstrated a “psychopathic personality” through his “lack of empathy, lack of remorse, dishonestly, manipulation” and “quite grandiose” view “about himself”.

He said the “diversity” of his offending, spanning both online and in-person crimes, suggested he was “more likely” to reoffend despite his apologies and purported rehabilitation.

His apologies, he said, were most likely about Brooker’s frustration with being imprisoned and concerns for his own family, not any insight into his victims’ suffering.

“You need to do the work to demonstrate there has been a change in your mindset – it’s not just hollow words,” he said.

Justice Adam Kimber will sentence Brooker on a date to be set.