Ipswich child sex offenders who have faced court for rape and indecent treatment charges

A father of two in his 20s who subjected young girls to perverted public displays and a photographer with thousands of Instagram followers who committed acts against a 15-year-old boy are among Ipswich child sex offenders named and shamed. FULL LIST

Simply put, it is the stuff of nightmares for parents.

From rape to sexual assault, Ipswich courts have dealt with countless cases involving the exploitation of children in recent years.

Offenders cannot always be named but their identities aren’t always kept a secret by the legal system.

From a father of two who has subjected young girls to perverted public displays to a serial flasher with an extensive criminal history, here are the names of six people from around the Ipswich region who have been charged with child-sex offences.

Blair Peter Kenneth Stenner.

BLAIR PETER KENNETH STENNER

Brassall man Blair Stenner avoided jail in July after he masturbated in front of a 12-year-old girl in broad daylight, which was the fifth time he had subjected young girls to his perverted public displays.

The 26-year-old pleaded guilty in Brisbane District Court to one count of indecent treatment of a child under the age of 16 by exposure.

The offence occurred in August 2019 on a street in Inala.

The father of two approached the 12-year-old girl and placed his hands down his pants to expose his penis and masturbate as he walked past her with a “smile”, the court heard.

The girl ran to her grandmother’s place and Stenner was not immediately able to be located.

The court heard Stenner, who had an undiagnosed condition of paraphilia, uncontrollable sexual urges, had previously masturbated in front of four other teenage girls.

Judge Katherine McGinness placed him on three years’ probation conditional on him performing sexual offender programs.

A conviction was also recorded, meaning he will be a reportable sexual offender for the next five years.

Tye Hooper.

TYE RANDALL HOOPER

A popular photographer with thousands of Instagram followers will spend the next four months behind bars after pleading guilty to the indecent treatment of a child.

South Ripley man Tye Hooper faced Ipswich District Court this month for sentence on four counts of the indecent treatment of a child aged under 16.

Crown prosecutor Amanda Robinson told the court Hooper’s offences were committed against a 15-year-old boy.

Details of the offence cannot be published to protect the identity of the victim, other than Hooper was intoxicated when he committed the disturbing acts.

He was sentenced Hooper to a two-year jail term, to be suspended for three years after he has served four months behind bars.

Morgan John Hann.

MORGAN JOHN HANN

A beloved Ipswich high school music teacher and country musician has been charged with indecent treatment of a child under the age of 16.

Bremer State High School teacher Morgan Hann, 37, appeared in Ipswich Magistrates Court this month.

Defence solicitor David Chambers told the court his client would be pleading guilty to the offence.

An indictment will now be presented to the District Court with the sentence to follow at a future date.

It’s understood the indecent treatment, which occurred on an unknown date in June 2019 in Ipswich, was not committed against a Bremer SHS student.

The child’s gender or exact age is not known, although they were at least 12 years old at the time of the offence.

Mr Hann is also a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist with popular alt-country band Suicide Swans, which has released three studio albums.

Richard Brian Campbell.

RICHARD BRIAN CAMPBELL

Serial flasher Richard Campbell, who was in court in 2018 after he pulled out his penis in front of children in a playground and masturbated, has been convicted more than 20 times previously on similar offences.

After a jury found him guilty of exposing children to indecent acts at a Gatton park, the Ipswich District Court heard in March 2018 that Campbell had been offending for more than 25 years.

Campbell pleaded not guilty to wilfully committing an indecent act in public in December 2015; two counts of exposing a child under 12 to an indecent act; and exposing a child under 16 to an indecent act.

He pleaded guilty to urinating in a public place.

At his two-day trial in 2018, one child gave evidence about seeing a man holding his “rude parts” after he’d pulled his pants down.

And one child said “yuck”, that he first showed his thing at us and walked off, then did it again.

Campbell was sentenced to 15 months’ jail, suspended for three years after he served seven months.

On release he was subject to two years of supervised probation.

He was brought back before Ipswich District Court in April for breaching his reporting conditions.

The court heard the disability pensioner failed to report his use of social media as legally obliged to The Child Protection Offenders Registry.

He was convicted and sentenced to the rising of the court.

Peter Zehmeister.

PETER ZEHMEISTER

A convicted paedophile who subjected six boys to months of horrific sexual abuse asked to be castrated so he no longer feels the urge to attack children.

Ipswich man Peter Zehmeister sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in jail for 34 offences in May 2009, including multiple counts of sodomy and maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with two children.

He was previously convicted of sexually abusing children in 1995 and 2001.

Defence barrister Steve Kissick told the court in 2009 his client wanted to be castrated.

Judge Greg Koppenol told Zehmeister that Queensland law did not allow him to make an order for castration.

Ipswich District Court heard Zehmeister met his victims, aged between 10 and 13 at the time, in November 2006 after one of them distributed flyers stating that they were looking for work.

Zehmeister admitted six counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12 and in care, 15 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16 and in care, seven counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16, and two counts of attempting to procure a child.

That was in addition to two counts each of sodomy and maintaining an unlawful relationship.

Victim impact statements submitted to the court showed the victims and their families had been devastated by what had occurred.

The judge’s orders did not include a recommended parole release date.

DARREN RODNEY TAYLOR

Ipswich paedophile Darren Rodney Taylor was sentenced to seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to raping, abusing and assaulting a four-year-old boy in 2012.

The sentencing judge ordered Taylor be eligible for parole after serving two-and-a-half years.

But that was dependant on him completing appropriate rehabilitative programs while behind bars.

Taylor applied to be released on parole shortly after becoming eligible, but the Southern Queensland Regional Parole Board refused his application after he refused to undergo a psychological assessment.

The board deemed the risk level Taylor posed to the community was unacceptably high.

Taylor took the matter to the Brisbane Supreme Court seeking a judicial review of the parole board’s decision.

By 2016, Taylor had also failed to do sex offending programs to treat his paedophilia.

It heard Taylor was deemed unsuitable to participate in offender programs because of his categorical denial surrounding his offences.

Justice Peter Flanagan, in handing down his decision in 2016, said Taylor had not proven the seven grounds he had based his application on.

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