Melbourne tech fiend Timothy Milne pleads guilty to child abuse material sex crime charges
A Melbourne tech wiz and former CFA volunteer was exposed as a depraved sex fiend after he paid for various child rape videos.
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A depraved tech sicko who paid for vile videos of children being raped was exposed after he was busted with child abuse material at Melbourne Airport.
Timothy Milne, 41, was sentenced in the County Court on Tuesday to a minimum three-year jail term after pleading guilty to groom a person to make it easier for a child to engage in sexual activity.
Milne was nabbed at Melbourne airport after returning from a combined work/holiday trip to the US on September 5, 2022.
Australian Border Force officers searched Milne’s phone and discovered a child abuse material video.
Milne told investigators he communicated with a friend called ‘Van’ who he paid for videos involving “actual children”, the court was told.
Milne told police he knew he was “doing something wrong” and “everyone knows such conduct to be wrong”.
Milne, who also pleaded guilty to possess, access and solicit child abuse material, claimed he only watched the vile material before watching “adult pornography”.
“(Viewing child abuse material is) probably … a little bit of a turn on,” Milne said.
Authorities seized Milne’s devices and discovered the fiend had horded more than 900 child abuse material files.
The vile material included lewd images of videos involving male children as young as four performing sickening acts with adults.
Some of the material depicted young male children being raped.
Police also discovered lewd communication between Milne and several overseas persons.
Milne’s depraved conduct occurred while he lived at Point Cook between November 2021 and September 2022.
The court heard Milne paid another man 10,000 baht to watch him “f*** a 12-year-old boy” but there was no evidence the sickening crime took place.
Milnes also “haggled” over a price while communicating with a child who had planned to “make a f***” video and Milne could “order it”.
Milne eventually agreed to pay $35 USD but said the video “better be good” and he hoped it would depict the child “f*** deep and hard”.
Milne paid the child before receiving the vile video.
“Wow … took so long to get … but very hot,” Milne said.
Milne also paid Van for child abuse material depicting the Vietnam-based man and his “students”.
The fiend paid Van $1360 USD via PayPal and received more than 9000 child abuse material files under titles ‘new kid clips’, ‘kid clips’ and ‘children’s clips’.
The “disgusting” material depicted children performing sickening acts with other children or adults.
Milne also complained some of the files were not child abuse material.
“That’s not kid clip,” Milne said.
The court heard Milne, a former CFA volunteer, grew up in Warburton before he graduated from Swinburne University.
Milne was most recently employed as a ‘Easy Workforce Software’ technician but quit that role just prior to his court hearing in “anticipation of being imprisoned”.
Judge Geoffrey Chettle said Milne’s offending was “disgusting”.
“Your offences involved live victims exploited for your perverted pedophilic desires,” Judge Chettle said.
“You paid needy and impoverished persons to abuse children for you.”
Milne was jailed for a maxim of five years and made a registered sex offender for life.
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