Jeffrey Wilson fails in appeal against child sex charges
A former police officer used website Locanto to look for “naughty mothers with naughty female offspring” before he was found with lubricant in his pocket after organising to meet an ‘underage girl’ in western Sydney.
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A former police officer and private investigator who attempted to elicit sex from girls under the age of 13 has had an appeal thrown out by the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Paul Wilson, 65, of Matraville, was arrested on Penrith’s High St in November, 2018, after having online conversations with an undercover police officer about sexually explicit acts he wanted to perform on both a 10 and 13-year-old girl.
Wilson used the website Locanto to look for “naughty mothers with naughty female offspring”, and a police officer responded saying they were the mother of a 10-year-old girl.
During conversations, Wilson sent a photo of his penis and a video of himself masturbating. He also asked whether the 10-year-old girl had seen the imagery.
He then had a second conversation with a police officer pretending to be a 13-year-old girl from Penrith.
Wilson told the 13-year-old girl he wished to perform oral sex on her, and asked her to send him nude photos of herself.
He was arrested in Penrith after he organised to meet the girl at the High St McDonald’s on November, 6, 2018. He was found to be carrying a bottle of lubricant in his pocket.
During his sentencing last year, the court heard Wilson started developing an attraction to pre-pubescent girls while scrolling through incestuous-type videos on pornographic websites.
In early 2018, Wilson came across a website featuring visibly underage children, and was viewing the material daily by mid-2018.
He was sentenced to a minimum of two years and four months in prison, and a maximum of four years on charges of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material, using a carriage service to procure a person under 16 for sexual activity, and possessing child-abuse material.
He appealed the sentence on August 26, claiming it was manifestly excessive and the sentencing judge had erred in her assessment of the seriousness of one of the charges.
However, Judges Clifton Hoeben, Peter Johnson, and Julia Lonergan dismissed the appeal, saying the nature of the offending required adequate punishment.
Wilson will be eligible for parole in January next year.