Bryan McLennan: Kallangur man jailed for possessing child abuse material

A Moreton Bay man has been jailed for a disgusting trove of images and pictures featuring babies as young as one-week-old.

A Moreton Bay paedophile has been jailed for a second time for possessing child exploitation material (CEM), hosting disgusting images and videos on social media accounts he’d hidden from authorities.

Kallangur man Bryan McLennan, 37, pleaded guilty in Brisbane District Court to six offences, most serious among them possessing CEM and contravening an order to provide information used to access devices.

The court heard McLennan, who served six months behind bars in 2015–16 for possessing CEM, was busted a second time after police were referred to a Kik social media account called ‘Kidlover’, registered to McLennan’s IP address, on July 4, 2019.

The account hosted “explicit conversations regarding child abuse”, and a search warrant was executed the following day.

Police seized a laptop, tablet and five mobile phones under the warrant.

Kallangur paedophile Bryan McLennan, 37. Picture: Facebook

An analysis of the devices uncovered a number of social media accounts which he was required to report under the conditions of his previous sentence, which was imposed on October 30, 2015.

This order, a two-year head sentence suspended after serving six months, for a period of four years, was breached by the current offending.

The device analyses uncovered an unreported Tumblr account, the Kik account and a Yandex cloud-storage email account, the archives of which contained about 70 CEM images featuring babies as young as one to three weeks old and pre-pubescent girls.

Even more revolting were the emails he had sent from the Yandex account – in one chain, McLennan and another person discussed their disgusting desires.

McLennan, the court heard, expressed a preference for children aged 0–5 and young boys who were uncircumcised.

Defence counsel John Cook told the court his client went to school in the Deception Bay area and had a good work history, currently holding employment at a Narangba pallet-building business.

Mr Cook said his client was married and had four children from a previous relationship, whom he does not have contact with.

McLennan’s current wife was supporting him in court and wrote him a character reference.

Judge Leanne Clare SC sentenced McLennan to two-and-a-half years’ imprisonment, with parole eligibility on January 30, 2022.

His devices were forfeited to the Crown.