Ingham court: Travis Carmody convicted of Child Protection Act crimes

A vile pervert convicted of possessing child-abuse material multiple times has appeared in a Queensland court on a raft of fresh charges for violating the terms of his freedom in the community.

Travis Mark Carmody, 47, pleaded guilty in the Ingham Magistrates Court to a total of 14 counts of failing to comply with the reporting obligations of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Prohibition Order) Act 2004 that monitors or manages individuals convicted of sexual or other serious offences against children. Picture: Cameron Bates

A vile pervert convicted of downloading sick child-abuse material multiple times has appeared in a Queensland court on a raft of fresh charges for violating the terms of his freedom in the community.

Travis Mark Carmody, 47, pleaded guilty in the Ingham Magistrates Court to a total of 14 counts of failing to comply with the reporting obligations of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Prohibition Order) Act 2004 that monitors or manages individuals convicted of sexual or other serious offences against children.

The first two charges occurred in Ingham on January 12, 2025, namely failing to report accessing online communication platforms Discord and Reddit.

The next six charges in Ingham on September 15, 2024, were a failure to inform authorities that he was accessing YouTube, popular dating application Tinder, software application Proton VPN (a virtual private network to encrypt user details), a Firefox private browser, Tor – software that allows anonymous communication over the internet – and cloud-based file storage and collaboration platform Dropbox.

The final charges that also occurred in Ingham in September last year were possessing and not reporting ownership or access to Xbox and Nintendo Switch consoles that can access the internet, a mobile phone, MacBook Pro and Dell laptop computers and a hard drive.

Travis Mark Carmody, 47, pleaded guilty in the Ingham Magistrates Court to a total of 14 counts of failing to comply with the reporting obligations of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Prohibition Order) Act 2004 that monitors or manages individuals convicted of sexual or other serious offences against children. Picture: Cameron Bates

Queensland Police Prosecutor Samuel Stewart presented Magistrate Cathy McLennan with Carmody’s criminal history from Victoria, which she categorised as “quite concerning”.

She said the defendant was convicted of indecent exposure in 1995, possessing child pornography in January 2017, using a carriage service to harass and stalk a person in April 2019, breaching a community corrections order in October 2020, possessing child-abuse material and again breaching a court order in December 2020, and possessing child-abuse material on June 17, 2025.

Travis Mark Carmody, 47, pleaded guilty in the Ingham Magistrates Court to a total of 14 counts of failing to comply with the reporting obligations of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Prohibition Order) Act 2004 that monitors or manages individuals convicted of sexual or other serious offences against children. Picture: Cameron Bates

Mr Stewart, in urging a term of imprisonment, remarked on the “sheer volume” of fresh charges.

“Your Honour will also note the defendant has a relevant criminal history in the contraventions of court orders … in 2025 he knowingly possessed child-abuse material and was fined for that matter as well.”

Defence lawyer Joseph Byrne noted that his client was negligent in failing to comply with the Act but nothing “more sinister” was discovered on his devices.

“He is of course ultra-mindful now and from here on out will err on the side of caution when it comes to reporting anything that he may have to in accordance with the order he’s on.”

He urged a lengthy term of probation.

Magistrate McLennan was incredulous at how leniently he had been treated during his previous offending.

“I don’t know what is going on in Victoria.”

She said the number of previous community-based orders had not deterred his ongoing offending.

Carmody was convicted and jailed for six months, wholly suspended for 18 months.

Originally published as Ingham court: Travis Carmody convicted of Child Protection Act crimes