Michael Gary Mallick pleaded guilty to accessing and possessing child exploitation material

A convicted child abuse material user has been slammed as being just as bad as the people abusing children after being caught with horrific videos.

Mallick pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to access child exploitation material, possessing child exploitation material and failing to comply with his reporting conditions as a registered child sex offender.

A convicted child abuse material user, who was on a suspended jail term when police caught him with more vile images and videos, was blasted as being just as bad as those abusing the children.

In 2022 Michael Gary Mallick faced court after he was busted with more than 2800 child exploitation images and videos across three devices, some of which depicted terrible sex abuse to little children.

He was jailed for 21 months, but barely one year later and Mackay police busted the 36 year old accessing upskirt and naked images of children via an anonymised Russian website.

Mackay District Court heard Mallick had 80 open Google Chrome tabs, the majority of which were via the Russian website that he had been accessing between September 4 and 29, 2023.

Police found three graphic images on his phone and some videos.

Crown prosecutor Rana Aldas said Mallick had also screen recorded on his phone as he viewed the material.

“What you did was enable a nine year old, an 11 year old and a six year to be sexually abused,” Judge Deborah Richards said.

“So by looking at those images you are as bad as the person who is abusing them.”

Mallick pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to access child exploitation material, possessing child exploitation material and failing to comply with his reporting conditions as a registered child sex offender.

The court heard he did not inform police of some new tattoos as required by being a reportable offender.

Since his arrest Mallick has spent almost 11 months in custody.

Ms Aldas said clearly Mallick needed supervision “for there to be any hope at minimising his risk of reoffending”.

Defence barrister Scott McLennan said his client was ashamed of his conduct and that he had suffered while in custody in remand as he had been unable to attend his father’s funeral.

“I’m sorry your father passed away while you were in custody. These are the consequences of this sort of offending,” Judge Richards said.

“I accept that certainly there are more serious images viewed by people but even viewing one image of a little girl being abused is serious.”

Judge Richards accepted the offending was at a low level given the number of photos and content of the photos.

She took into account the 328 days already spent on remand and jailed Mallick for three years to be released after 12 months on three years probation.

His previous suspended sentence was also extended until 2026 and convictions were recorded.