Rockhampton CEM offender Adam Troy Johns busted with Onlyfans account

A Central Queensland man previously jailed for possessing more than 43,000 of child sex abuse material has “made it very clear” “it doesn’t matter what conditions are placed on him, he will” continue to reoffend, a prosecutor has told a Rockhampton court.

A Central Queensland man previously jailed for possessing more than 43,000 files of child exploitation material (CEM) has “made it very clear” “it doesn’t matter what conditions are placed on him, he will” continue to reoffend, a prosecutor has told a Rockhampton court.

Adam Troy Johns, 48, was sentenced in 2017 for possessing the “vast collection” of child exploitation material - more than 43,000 files - and was added to the Child Protection Offender Register in Queensland, placing reporting requirements upon him.

He was sentenced again in May 2024 for possessing more CEM and three counts of using a carriage service to access CEM.

This week, Johns pleaded guilty in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to six counts of failing to comply with his reporting obligations under the Child Protection Offender Register over four years and two counts of failing to appear in court.

Police prosecutor Brandy Butler said those offences involved Johns not declaring an OnlyFans account he had created, along with other social media accounts, cancelling a phone number and connecting a new phone number, as well as failing his periodic report.

Johns’ recent district court sentence arose from what police found when they attended Johns’ Rockhampton address on August 5, 2022, for a compliance check and device inspection.

They found two mobile phones and two computers belonging to Johns with one computer showing he had accessed child abuse material six times on that device since April 7, 2019, including an autosave file titled Russian Lolita and another two files saved in September 2019, one titled ‘hot young teen strips rude’.

The court heard Townsville-born Johns had failed to comply with his reporting obligations under the child protection act six times and was sentenced in Rockhampton Magistrates Court for those breaches in July 2021.

He had even been bailed after the August compliance check but he was busted reoffending in December, accessing child abuse material between September 14, 2022 and October 1, 2022.

Ms Butler said Johns repeat offending shows he has “complete and utter disregard for this court and for the laws of our society that are put in place to protect innocent children”.

“The defendant has made it very clear to this court that it doesn’t matter what conditions are placed on him, he will breach,” she said.

Defence lawyer Oscar Millroy said his client grew up in Townsville, is single and has no children.

He said Johns’s father was in the Army and his mother was a nurse but he had not maintained contact with his family over the years.

Mr Millroy said Johns relocated to Rockhampton six years ago and has supportive friends in this region.

Johns was sentenced to 2.5 years prison on May 15, 2017, with the sentence suspended after he served 10 months and a three-year operational period, seeing Johns released from prison in mid-March 2018.

In May, Judge Jeff Clarke ordered the remainder 20 months prison of the suspended sentence from the 2017 sentence be activated in full.

He also sentenced Johns to three years prison for the first period of possessing child abuse material, declared 528 days presentence custody as time already served with parole eligibility from June 2, 2024.

Judge Clarke further ordered a 4.5 year head sentence for the remaining offences, with a start date of when he was first taken into custody for these offences on December 2, 2022, and ordered a non-parole period of 18 months.

On June 10, Acting Magistrate Paul Byrne ordered Johns pay a $2500 fine for his failing his reporting obligations offences, no further punishments for the failing to appear in court offences and convictions recorded for all offences.