Adelaide Hills chiropractor Warren Jon Young released on home detention bail as he fights prison sentence for child exploitation images
An Adelaide Hills chiropractor jailed for possessing child exploitation material has won bail as he fights his prison sentence.
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An Adelaide Hills chiropractor jailed for possessing and transmitting child exploitation material has been released on home detention as he fights to have his jail term overturned.
Warren Jon Young, 43, was sentenced in January to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of accessing and three counts of transmitting child exploitation material.
Though his offending only involved a relatively small number of images compared with some cases, District Court Judge Adam Kimber said it would be inappropriate to completely suspend Young’s sentence.
Judge Kimber ordered Young spend six months behind bars before being released on a recognisance order.
On Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Tim Stanley heard Young has lodged an appeal against his sentence centring on the order that he serve six months behind bars.
Justice Stanley noted the application was likely to be redundant if Young was not released on bail as his appeal would not be heard before the six-month sentence was almost complete.
The prosecution and Paul Tothill, for Young, agreed the former chiropractor should be released on strict home detention bail.
Justice Stanley noted a school was within a kilometre of Young’s proposed home detention address.
Mr Tothill said Young’s charges had not involved contact offending against children and his client would be monitored while in home detention.
Young, who appeared in court by video link from the Adelaide Remand Centre, did not react when he heard he would be released from prison after almost a month behind bars.
As part of his release he is banned from going within 500m of any school and cannot access the internet.
Young was arrested by state and federal police for offending between July and November 2018.
He participated in conversations with three other users online in which he transferred and received child exploitation material.
Judge Kimber said it was particularly serious that Young had spoken about and sent non-nude photos of young girls known to him during the conversations.
The subjects of those photos, which were not classified as child exploitation material, were not patients of Young.
“Your transmission of, and communications about, those images does give, I believe, some insight into the extent to which you had lost your moral compass, and the depth of your interest in the images and videos which were child pornography material,” Judge Kimber said during sentencing in January.
The majority of the 33 images sent and received by Young were at the lowest level of seriousness.
However, one image and two videos were at the highest range of the scale of seriousness.
Young’s application to appeal against his sentence will be heard in the coming months.
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