Kristopher Marc Racette caught with 65 child sexual abuse vidoes
A Gold Coast real estate agent caught with 65 videos of child sexual abuse material will be back on the streets after eight months in prison.
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A Gold Coast real estate agent caught with 65 videos of child abuse material will be back on the streets after eight months in prison.
The videos showed children in various states of undress and being touched.
The prosecutor told the court Kristopher Marc Racette had said the activity had been for the “thrill” of it.
The 41-year-old pleaded guilty in the Southport District Court on Thursday to multiple charges, including possessing child exploitation material.
Judge Katherine McGinness sentenced him to three years’ prison to be suspended after he has served eight months.
She also ordered he complete two years’ probation.
Defence lawyer Bill Potts, of Potts Lawyers, told the court that Racette was experiencing alcohol abuse problems at the time of offending.
He said Racette went to counselling and underwent a sexual offenders program prior to police being involved.
Judge McGinness pointed out that was only done after Racette was found with the videos.
Mr Potts said there had been no further offending and Racette had been assessed as a “low risk of reoffending”.
Mr Potts said the offending indicated a “person who has acted not only in an abhorrent way but also in a way that could be seen as out of character”.
He told the court Racette had married in January.
Mr Potts said Racette would also have to give up his career as a real estate agent due to the offending.
Racette was a director of Asset Property Sale and Asset Management Business Broker.
In August last year he was selling Helensvale Village.
He also previously ran Buy Beach Realty which specialised in rentals and sales at Gemini Court Holiday Apartments in Burleigh for about 10 years.
On his Domain profile Racette said: “You can never go wrong when you have the right team to work with.”
The same profile states that Racette spent five years as chairman of Burleigh Tourism, during which he once described the southern part of the Gold Coast as “more Byron than Bryon”.
Racette also worked as a vice-president in a national construction firm and oversaw large refurbishment projects for Gold Coast high-rises.
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