Scott Furletti: Gippsland man pleads guilty to grooming

A Gippsland creep who posed as a teenager online, sent sexually graphic videos to a young girl and threatened to leak her nude photos.

Scott Furletti pleaded guilty at the County Court. Picture: iStock

A Moe man who posed as a teenager, sent sexually graphic photos and videos to a child and threatened to leak her nude pictures.

Scott Furletti, 45, pleaded guilty at the County Court on October 1 to charges of grooming a child under 16 for sexual conduct, involving a child in the production of sex abuse material and possessing child abuse material.

The court heard Furletti contacted a 14-year-old girl through social media in 2020 when he told her he was a 16-year-old boy named Chase.

Furletti was in contact with the girl for five months and requested naked photos of her.

He sent her photos of his genitalia and a sexually graphic video that he said was of him and his 13-year-old sister.

Furletti told the girl that he wanted to meet up and when she declined he was abusive and threatened to leak nude photos of her.

Between June 7 and July 20, 249 messages were exchanged between Furletti and the girl with some of a sexual nature.

In a victim impact statement, the girl said she experienced flashbacks because of Furletti’s vile offending.

“I often feel depressed, I have high anxiety when I’m with people I have known for a long time,” she said.

“I can’t trust what people say to me about themselves … I can’t trust people generally as I always think they are lying.”

Furletti also sent sexual photos and videos to another child between May 25 and July 8.

The court heard police found 103 files on his mobile phone containing child abuse material.

Judge Peter Lauritsen said the man was raised in Benalla and attempted suicide in 2016 when he was admitted into a psychiatric ward.

Furletti worked as a night manager at Coles for five years and cleaned high-rise windows for 12 years before he was stood down because of the pandemic.

Furletti was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment with a non-parole period of 20 months.

He was made a registered sex offender for life.

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