Bradley Payne-Moore: Men’s activist admits to online child abuse material charges
Self-styled “image consultant” and men’s activist Bradley Payne-Moore is facing likely jail time after admitting to possessing online child abuse material.
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Canberra life coach and fashion guru Bradley Payne-Moore will likely trade his tailored suits for prison greens after admitting to online child abuse charges.
Payne-Moore, who runs a men’s life coaching and mentoring business, faced the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday where he pleaded guilty to possessing child abuse material and using the internet for child abuse material.
The charges relate to Payne-Moore’s offending between October 2019 and February this year.
Magistrate James Lawton committed Payne-Moore for sentencing in the Supreme Court, where he will appear at a brief listing hearing later this month.
He is likely to be sentenced late this year or in early 2021.
ACT Supreme Court judges have repeatedly said that crimes involving child pornography and child abuse material will nearly always result in actual jail time.
The precise details of Payne-Moore’s offending have not been aired in court, but will be detailed in sentencing proceedings likely to take place by the end of the year.
Payne-Moore, who is also an amateur strongman competitor, runs a business called Guardian Gent, in which he aims to “help men better themselves” by offering one-on-one personal, professional and emotional guidance.
He has also spoken publicly about preventing domestic violence.
In a breakfast seminar with ACT businesspeople a week before he was first detected accessing child abuse material, Payne-Moore stressed the importance of people taking responsibility for their own actions.
“My favourite word is responsibility, and where does responsibility come from? Accountability,” he said. “Accountability breeds responsibility.”
“When I talk to men, I don’t lean on that ‘not all men’ thing.”
He also complained about the lack of publicity for the men’s causes he wanted to get funding for.
“It’s not going to be front page, it’s not going to be on … the 7.30 Report or whatever it is,” he said.
Payne-Moore’s social media pages feature bizarre essay-style rants on topics including pornography addiction, chivalry, how to talk to women, and “twisted societal expectations for men”.
