Warren John Kemp faces court over child abuse material and creating shock images of females he knew

A 64-year-old Bulli man filmed women known to him and claimed a collection of child abuse material “just appeared” on his phone.

A paramedic used a tiny camera to take sexualised images of women he knew and was caught with nearly 90 pieces of child abuse material that he says “just appeared” on his phone.

Bulli resident Warren John Kemp appeared briefly in Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday.

He pleaded guilty to possessing child abuse material, disseminating child abuse material, intentionally recording intimate images without consent and two counts of intentionally distributing intimate images without consent.

Kemp’s offending occurred in the first half of last year with the 64-year-old using messaging services Viber and Kik to send and receive the child exploitation material.

In March, Kemp sent 58 videos and two images via Viber to a person, saying: “She loves it. What do you think about the one asleep?”.

Warren John Kemp leaving Wollongong Courthouse on Wednesday. Picture: Dylan Arvela

In the same month, Kemp, a married father, used Kik to send a different person a picture of a naked woman known to him.

Days after sending the image, Kemp sent another picture of the female.

Court documents revealed Kemp used a pen camera, which he referred to as ‘007’ in message exchanges, to take images of his victims.

Police found an image on Kemp’s phone of a sex act where the face of a woman known to him was pasted on to the body of an unknown woman and his was put on to an image of a man.

He was arrested on May 11, 2021.

Warren John Kemp will be sentenced in August. Picture: Supplied

He handed over his Samsung Galaxy S10 as well as his passcode and when asked if he had an child abuse material on it he said: “Yeah, there may be some” but denied distributing the material.

In an interview with officers at the Wollongong Police Station, Kemp said the child abuse imagery “just appeared there one day”.

Kemp told police he thought the children depicted in the videos were “seven or eight”, that he had received the material halfway through 2020 and that he should have reported them.

Kemp, who went to school in the Sutherland Shire and spent a portion of his working life in the Shoalhaven, denied he felt sexual gratification from the material, that he actively looked for the material and that he knowingly sent the material.

“I get up in the hut back up there and hit the wine bottle,” he said when telling police he didn’t recall sending the child abuse material.

Warren John Kemp’s “hut back up there”. Picture: Supplied

He said he was in chat groups for a “very short time” and that he “clicked on images just out of curiosity”.

Police found a total of 49 videos and 39 images on his phone as well as another image on his Samsung Galaxy tablet.

Kemp, who had been taking medication for Parkinson’s disease in the two years leading up to his arrest, will remain on bail ahead of his sentencing in Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday, August 10.