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Police found the man failed to report he’d created social media accounts and had been around children

A young man previously convicted for distributing and possessing child porn failed to tell police he had created online profiles and associated with children.

Daniel John Blyth, 26, was jailed for breaching conditions of a suspended sentence.
Daniel John Blyth, 26, was jailed for breaching conditions of a suspended sentence.

A young man caught with child porn has lost his freedom again after failing to tell police he had created online profiles and associated with children.

Daniel John Blyth, 26, appeared in Maroochydore District Court on Tuesday after breaching a suspended sentence on 12 separate occasions.

Blyth was sentenced in 2016 after he uploaded to Facebook an image of two pre-pubescent girls sexually posing in a bathtub.

He had also been found in possession of more than 800 unique images of child sexual exploitation.

He was given a suspended sentence, which expired in December 2017.

However, Blyth was subsequently convicted for possessing more child sexual material, including videos.

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It was deemed an escalation of his offending and failing to comply with reporting obligations, the court heard

He was sentenced in 2019 to two years and three months in jail, to serve four months.

Blyth's home was raided by police in November last year.

Officers discovered he had failed to report five online profiles to social media sites, including Tinder and Twitch.

He is ordered to report such things to police as part of his release conditions.

The accounts dated back to 2016, during the first suspended sentence and two email addresses he created in 2018.

Police also discovered Blyth had failed to inform officers he'd attended social gatherings late last year where children were present.

He was sentenced in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on February 10 for those charges to 12 months in jail and was given immediate parole.

The court heard Blyth had only recently proactively engaged with child sexual offending programs and psychologist appointments since his parole in February.

Judge Gary Long said Blyth's history of failing to comply with court orders was concerning.

"(There is) a need to particularly bring home to you in some final way the message as to the essential importance of fully requiring with your reporting in the future and avoiding the reoffending," Judge Long said.

The breaches dating back to 2016 and 2018 were found proven but no action was taken, the court heard.

Judge Long sentenced Blyth to four months in prison in relation to the breaches of the 2019 suspended sentence.

Blyth will be eligible for parole on September 17.

Originally published as Police found the man failed to report he’d created social media accounts and had been around children

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