Former ADFA student Daniel Igoe jailed for sharing secret video of drunken threesome
The behaviour of a former Officer Cadet at the prestigious Australian Defence Force Academy involved in a drunken threesome has been described as “more serious than the now-infamous ADFA Skype case”.
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The prestigious Australian Defence Force Academy has been rocked by yet another sex scandal after it emerged a secret video of a woman taking part in a drunken threesome was shared around among nearly a dozen students.
The former Officer Cadet at the centre of the scandal, Daniel Igoe, has been sentenced to 35 days jail but has launched a legal bid to challenge the sentence.
His lawyers on Tuesday fronted the Federal Court in Brisbane, and the challenge will be heard in July.
Igoe in April pleaded guilty at a Defence Force Magistrates Court hearing to capturing visual data, and to non-consensual sharing of an intimate image, a charge commonly referred to as “revenge porn”.
Igoe was a final year business and commerce student at ADFA, when he had a drunken threesome with the victim and another man.
During the tryst, Igoe took a short 10-second video of the other two threesome participants mid-sex act and sent it to two fellow students on messaging app Snapchat.
Those student then sent the footage on, and Australian Defence Force Investigative Services investigators found that 11 students had seen the footage.
Defence Force Magistrate Brigadier Michael Cowan QC slammed the aspiring officer’s conduct, saying: “this was more serious than the now-infamous ADFA Skype case from 2011”, in which a student at the academy, Daniel McDonald, used Skype to broadcast himself having sex with a woman to mates sitting in a neighbouring dorm room.
The ADFA Skype sex scandal predated the introduction of so-called revenge porn laws.
Igoe boasts on his Linkedin page of his outstanding academic results at ADFA, including in a military course for “ethical decision making”.
Brigadier Cowan said the only excuse Igoe offered for his crimes was that he was drunk.
“The charges involved a gross breach of trust,” he said.
Brigadier Cowan took the rare step of sending Igoe to a civilian jail, the harshest penalty available in the military justice system, and a step which can only be taken if an offender is also sacked from the military.
“The offences (were) so serious, and involved such a breach of trust that a sentence of imprisonment and dismissal was the minimum sentence which could be imposed,” Brigadier Cowan said.
“His behaviour was so contrary to Army values that it brought into question his suitability as an officer.”
Igoe is a graduate of the prestigious Villanova College Anglican boys school in Brisbane, which has previously described him as a “quality” young man who “thrived” at ADFA.