Rockhampton court hears mother sent son’s naked photos to strangers

A Queensland mother had sexually explicit conversations with a man about three-ways with them and her prepubescent son. WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT:

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A self-confessed sex addict who met up with strangers she met online for sex had sexually explicit conversations with a man about three-ways with them and her prepubescent son.

The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was busted for taking photographs of her naked son and receiving images from others online of naked children, such as four year old girls, after a police raid on a Victorian residence in 2021, Rockhampton District Court heard last month.

Judge Jeff Clarke revealed how the Central Queensland mother’s sickening offending was uncovered after the defendant pleaded guilty to seven sexual offences.

During the Victorian raid, police found child exploitation material (CEM) on multiple devices.

One device contained an image of the woman and her son while they were both naked.

The defendant asked the Victorian man through a social media app if he wanted to live with her and her son so the three of them could “have sex all the time” and then she sent him a photograph of a vagina.

The pair continued the conversation with sexually explicit fantasies involving the victim and the two adults.

Rockhampton police were notified in August 2021 that the child in the image could possibly be the defendant’s son and when they searched her residence, they found devices containing CEM.

Police found 21 images the defendant had taken of her own son, aged under 12, along with 41 images of other children on multiple devices belonging to the woman.

The images of other children included girls as young as four years old and many with children being raped.

The defendant admitted to police she had taken the photos and shared them with people she had been chatting with online during a five month period.

She told them after she had a heart attack, she started discussing adult sexual activity with strangers and exchanging intimate images, then met up with some of them for sex before the topic of sexual activity with children came up, and she “just went along with it”.

The defendant told police she had deleted all of the images from her phone, but she had stored them in a hidden folder.

Four images showed more direct physical contact with her son than the first one found in Victoria with the balance of the 27 being less direct physical contact.

“This material may be circulating and be accessible on the internet forever,” Judge Clarke said.

During conversations with other online accounts, the defendant was provided images of other naked children and her responses indicated she had sexual interest in children.

The court heard the defendant told multiple psychologists and psychiatrists she had been “extremely” abused by her immediate family as a child, including being force fed, and she had been addicted to sex in her early 20s.

She told them she had engaged in phone and video online sex, swinging, and randomly organised sex with strangers, but denied being aroused by this offending.

The defendant has been diagnosed with depression, post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.

Judge Clarke said the victim impact statement provided by her son’s father “spells out clearly the substantial impact” the woman’s offending had on the child, including anger management issues and spending time withdrawn, alone.

“His father feels sad and helpless,” he said.

“He worries about what you did to your child.”

Judge Clarke said the defendant’s child was “particularly vulnerable” due to his diagnoses of autism and ADHD.

“As a mother, it is abhorrent to think that instead of reporting the sexual deviance of other people they had towards children, you instead actively engaged in it,” he said.

The woman pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12 who was a lineal descendant (domestic violence offence), one of making child exploitation material (DV), one of distributing CEM and one of possessing CEM.

Judge Clarke sentenced the defendant to three years prison, declared 210 days of presentence custody as time already served and set parole eligibility on February 10, 2024.

Originally published as Rockhampton court hears mother sent son’s naked photos to strangers