Sex fiend Mount Waverley dad Gareth Dunstan pleads guilty to child porn offences
A Mt Waverley dad paid to join a depraved internet child porn site so he could download vile material which depicted victims as young as 12 being abused by adult men because it was “more interesting”.
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A Mt Waverley dad downloaded vile child porn because he found teenage girls “more exciting” a court has heard.
Gareth Dunstan, 54, pleaded guilty to use a carriage service to access child pornography and possess child abuse material.
Dunstan landed on the police radar after he accessed members-only child pornography site Website M.
The depraved dad purchased child pornography from the site on seven occasions between April 2015 and April 2019.
The vile website charges members a fee to access and download encrypted files which contain horrid child pornography images and videos.
Some of the files purchased by Dunstan included a vile depictions of children in costumes and swim wear including a file which depicted a 12 or 13-year-old girl in a Spider Man costume.
Some of the files depicted children penetrated by adult men, and sadism, bestiality or humiliation.
Another file downloaded by Dunstan was titled ‘Daisy-purple-naughty-girl’.
Police — who linked Dunstan to Website M via his email address, mobile phone and two VISA credit cards — stormed Dunstan’s Mt Waverley home on March 17 this year.
Investigators seized a laptop, a tablet, a storage device and mobile phone which contained a combined 6036 child pornography videos and images.
Dunstan admitted downloading child pornography but told police he would “exercise his judgment to select girls who looked more like women”.
Dunstan also told police he “avoided eight-year old-girls” but was “more interested in 14 or 15-year-old-girls”.
“A bit of excitement factor if it’s underage,” Dunstan said.
Dunstan also told police the victims “seemed to be enjoying the acts”.
Prosecutor Vicki Hogarth said Dunstan paid to access the website which “aggravated” the offending.
“It’s a direct contribution to that market,” she said.
It was submitted Dunstan had abstained from all pornography since his arrest and his offending did not “escalate”.
It was also submitted Dunstan was caught with an amount files that was “not in the tens of thousands”.
However, Judge Kevin Doyle said the material was “all repulsive and abusive”.
“The reason general deterrence is important is because he’s feeding the market with the production of this material,” Judge Doyle said.
Dunstan’s lawyer pleaded for him to be spared jail because an unexplained absence would cost the data analyst the job he has held for more two decades.
Judge Doyle — who indicated there was an “overwhelming probability” of imprisonment — extended Dunstan’s bail for sentencing on October 29.
Dunstan will be a made a registered sex offender for eight years.
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