Justin Radford: Vile paedophile guilty of 18 child sexual assault charges

Details of this depraved paedophile’s offending have been revealed for the first time with police detailing his crimes and his Snapchats with other sick abusers.

Wyong man Justin Radford, 30, has pleaded guilty to child sex abuse and having abuse material. Picture: Supplied

Disturbing details of a depraved paedophile have emerged after a court released an agreed statement of facts before his sentencing later this year.

Former Nine Network tape library assistant Justin Kenneth Radford pleaded guilty in Gosford District Court to 18 charges, including sexually touching a child, possessing child abuse material, transmitting child abuse material and using a child to make child abuse material.

A further 71 offences were withdrawn and dismissed as a result of his guilty pleas.

Justin Radford. Picture: Instagram

Radford has been charged with multiple offences.

It comes as the Australian Federal Police (AFP) were forced to download only a fraction of abuse material Radford had on file sharing links before shutting them down to stop other paedophiles from accessing the live links.

The agreed set of facts states AFP Child Protection Operations officers were tipped off from US authorities in January last year about a Snapchat account in Australia being used to share child abuse material.

Internet service provider data showed the subscriber associated with the IP address was Radford, of Wyong.

On February 7, 2020, AFP officers raided Radford’s Wyong address and seized an ASUS laptop and three Samsung Galaxy mobile phones.

Radford, now 30, participated in a field record of conversation during which he admitted he was the user of a Snapchat account created in January 2019 for the sole purpose of sending and receiving “child abuse material”.

“He would find like-minded people using an open source forum on the web then add them to his Snapchat account,” the facts state.

Radford told officers he would use Snapchat to send links to Dropbox or Mega accounts and would rename contacts according to the relationship he shared with them.

“For example contacts who required CAM (child abuse material) to be shared before they would provide the accused with CAM would be renamed with the acronym ‘S2R’ or ‘send to receive’,” the facts state.

A review of Radford’s devices found 10 videos he had filmed of himself abusing a pre-pubescent boy on four separate days from as early as January 2019.

The videos, ranging from nine to 51 seconds, show Radford sexually abusing the young boy who tries to stop him.

Devices seized in the arrest of Wyong man Justin Radford, 29, in February 2020 as part of an Australian Federal Police investigation into an alleged child sex abuse ring. Picture: AFP

The facts state in one video Radford stops the boy from leaving a room before abusing him.

AFP officers also found thousands of videos and images of child abuse material on his laptop and three phones ranging from “Category 1” on a national scale of how bad the material is through to “Category 5” — being the worst imaginable.

They also found hundreds of videos of “objectionable material such as murder and sexual abuse of animals”.

In one email exchange with a fellow paedophile Radford boasts “I have tons! Id (sic) rather not share online though (laughing emoji)”.

“Also please hide or remove these since my names on them haha,” he emailed the man.

On his Samsung Galaxy S10 AFP officers found six individual notes that contained multiple links to Mega and Dropbox accounts created between June 2019 and February 2, 2020 which contained 742 images/videos.

“Due to the sheer quantity of material in more than 80 Mega and Dropbox links, along with these links still being available for other like-minded persons like the accused, a decision was made to only download nine of the links and have the rest of the links shut down,” the facts read.

Devices seized in the arrest of Wyong man Justin Radford, 29, in February 2020 as part of an Australian Federal Police investigation into an alleged child sex abuse ring. Picture: AFP

On January 16, 2020 Radford forwarded six videos to a user via a Mega link and asked him “Didn’t you say you had baby stuff”.

Radford sent the man a video of the boy he abused and said “I hope to get more of him soon”.

He sent links to another paedophile, who told Radford he “loves playing” with his son and Radford said “I wish I had a son to play with” and “im (sic) so jealous of you”.

Following Radford’s arrest AFP officers established strike force Operation Arkstone, which has led to the arrest of 17 men across NSW, Western Australia and Queensland with more than 800 child sex offence charges being laid.

Investigations are continuing.

Radford, meanwhile, remains behind bars ahead of his sentencing on May 7.