Garrett Plummer pleads guilty to distributing intimate image of Tinder match

A project co-ordinator has been blasted for sharing the naked image of a woman he had been sexting on a public online forum while drinking at the Whitsundays.

Garrett John Randall Plummer leaving Maroochydore Magistrates Court last week. Picture: Sam Turner

A Sunshine Coast civil construction worker has been criticised for his “abhorrent revenge” on a past Tinder match after he posted her nude photo on Reddit.

Garrett John Randall Plummer never met his dating app flame however he exchanged a series of intimate photos with her in 2021 and 2022.

Maroochydore Magistrates Court heard last week Plummer and the woman eventually unmatched and “unfollowed” one another, and went on with their dating lives.

Fast forward to May 4 this year when the 23-year-old saved the victim’s naked photo on Snapchat while drinking at Airlie Beach and posted it onto Reddit, an online public forum.

Plummer leaving court last Friday.

Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Shane Raison said the Maroochydore man placed the photo in a “mature content” internet group with 22,000 members, who would’ve had “unfettered use” of the image.

Senior Sergeant Raison said Plummer did not take down the photo until the victim confronted him.

He was charged with one count of distributing intimate images, to which he pleaded guilty.

In her impact statement read to the court, the woman said it was “hard to put in words” what she felt that day when she discovered her naked image was placed on the internet without her consent.

Senior Sergeant Raison spoke of the emotional impacts the offending also had on the victim.

He pleaded guilty to one charge.

Defence lawyer Alex Collins said Plummer had no criminal history and recognised the toll his act had on the victim, and was deeply ashamed and remorseful.

Mr Collins said since being charged, the 23-year-old referred himself to counselling and also engaged in a mental health plan from his local doctor.

The lawyer said the civil construction project co-ordinator matched with the victim several years ago and began sexting, however they never went past messaging and did not meet in person.

Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist called it an act of “abhorrent revenge” and placed Plummer on a two and a half year probation order.

A conviction was recorded.