Dad who supplied 15-y-o daughter with cannabis fronts Supreme Court
The man was found with cannabis as his home but then went onto tell police he had provided it for his teenager daughter as well.
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A man who thought little of supplying his 15-year-old daughter and two of her friends with cannabis now understands the seriousness of his actions after having to front Toowoomba Supreme Court.
The man, in his 50s, who is not named so as to protect the identity of his daughter and her two friends, was subject to a police search of his Pittsworth home on March 19 last year.
Police had been looking for cannabis and he told them he had 20g of the drug which was seized.
However, during subsequent conservations, the man volunteered to police he had, on their request, provided cannabis for his daughter and her two 15-year-old female friends.
Crown prosecutor Ellen Fletcher conceded that without the man’s frank admissions, police would have had no evidence with which to charge him with that offence.
As it transpired, the man had driven to source the cannabis, paid for it, stored it at his home and then provided it to the teenagers, she said.
However, in doing so he had exposed himself to a period of imprisonment, Ms Fletcher submitted.
The man pleaded guilty to three counts of supplying a dangerous drug to a minor and one count each of possessing cannabis and permitting a place to be used for drug activity.
Justice Martin Burns said it appeared the man had little insight into the seriousness of such offending.
“You now understand it was a stupid thing to do,” he told him.
Justice Burns said “special leniency” had to be afforded those who owned up to offences that the police knew nothing about leading to prosecution that otherwise wouldn’t have been.
And, by the material before him, Justice Burns said it was “reasonable to infer none of these children were new to the consumption of that drug”.
The man was sentenced to 18 months probation.
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