Adelaide Hills chiropractor Warren Jon Young jailed for five months for sending and accessing child exploitation material
An Adelaide Hills chiro will spend the next five months in prison after using photos of teenage girls to barter for other child abuse images online.
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An Adelaide Hills chiropractor who exchanged photos of teenage girls for child exploitation material will spend the next five months behind bars.
Warren Jon Young, 43, pleaded guilty to three counts of accessing child exploitation material and three counts of transmitting child exploitation material.
On Thursday District Court Judge Adam Kimber said he could not be satisfied that Young did not have “pedophilic proclivities” despite denying a sexual interest in children.
A joint police investigation between Federal and local police was launched after Young was identified by the US-based Centre of the Missing and Exploited Children after he used an internet messaging application to access and send the material.
A total of 33 images and seven videos were exchanged, with three of those involving graphic sexual activity.
During sentencing submissions Paul Tothill, for Young, said his client had been forced to abandon his career and sell off the commercial premises where he operated as a result of the offending.
Judge Kimber said an Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Authority investigation was still currently on hold but would recommence after Young had been sentenced.
He also said Young’s membership of Swimming SA had been suspended as a result of the investigation and it was unclear whether he would be able to rejoin the club.
The court had heard that Young was well known in the swimming community.
Judge Kimber said it was concerning that Young had bartered images of teenage girls known to him and communicated about them in a way which showed he had a sexual interest in children.
The two teenage girls were not clients of Young’s successful chiropractic practice.
The court heard that Young had built up the business and leased out rooms within the practice to other health professionals.
The practice was so successful that Young did not have to work full time.
The images which Young received and transmitted over social media ranged from fully clothed images to some at the most serious end of the scale.
“Your distributing is particularly serious even though you have fewer images than the court sees in come cases,” Judge Kimber said.
“Your six offences occurred over a period of four months and you fuelled the interest of three other people in child exploitation material.”
Young was sentenced to 17 months in prison, with five of those months to be served behind bars, while the rest will be suspended on his entrance into an agreement to be under the supervision of the court.
Originally published as Adelaide Hills chiropractor Warren Jon Young jailed for five months for sending and accessing child exploitation material
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