Influencer who sexually abused sons to sell abuse videos online hit with heavier jail term

A Tasmanian influencer who sexually abused her baby sons, then sold disturbing videos of the abuse to predators online will spend more time in jail. Find out why.

A Tasmanian influencer, who boasts tens of thousands of followers online, will spend more time in jail after orally raping her baby son and selling the video online. Picture: Facebook

A Tasmanian influencer who sexually abused her baby sons, then sold disturbing videos of the abuse online to predators, will serve a longer jail term after a Crown appeal.

Last August, the mother-of-three – who cannot be named by order of the court – was jailed after abusing one of her sons from when he was about five months, and also abusing another son when he was three months’ old.

The woman sold a video of herself orally raping her baby for $600 under her online moniker of “Taboo Mummy”.

She also sourced and sold child rape and violent abuse videos of unknown children, which had a “very high level of depravity”, online for fees up to $1000 per sale.

The woman, who sold to a customer base of 10 unknown people, was given a four-year jail term, with a non-parole period of two years.

Sad child, domestic violence, sex abuse concept. Generic picture from istock. No identification.

But Tasmania’s Director of Public Prosecutions has since argued her sentence was “manifestly inadequate

In a newly-published judgment, Supreme Court Chief Justice Alan Blow and Justice Helen Wood agreed.

Chief Justice Blow noted there were a number of aggravating circumstances in the woman’s crimes, including that her boys would one day discover why their mother was jailed.

“The videos of their mother sexually abusing them will probably remain in circulation for decades and they will have to live with the knowledge that material is in circulation,” he said.

“(Also), the videos of unknown children which the respondent sold involved a very high level of depravity. Very few cases before this court have related to child exploitation material depicting such extreme violence in relation to very young and very vulnerable children.”

Chief Justice Blow said the head sentence of four years did not reflect the seriousness of her crimes, resentencing her to six years and six months, with a non-parole period of half that time.

Justice Wood agreed with Chief Justice Blow, and noted the woman had marketed herself as a mother in her lawful online work – which helped sell her product to the “online pedophilic community”.

“This case is a stark illustration of the corrupting influence and insidious reach of this

predatory online community involving the normalisation and creation of this material,” she said.

“To this online community, children are a sexual commodity and those who have access to

them are of real interest. Chillingly, people who are parents or carers are targeted.”

Justice Stephen Estcourt was the sole dissenting judge, finding no errors had been made in the original sentencing.

“The facts of this case are appalling ….they are however, in my view, no more grave than an unfortunately increasingly large number of the more serious child exploitation and abuse cases that come before this court,” he said.

“It may be that the time has come to increase sentences across the whole terrible and depraved spectrum of online child abuse. That ought not to be done suddenly and without warning in this case.”

Before she was jailed, the woman had tens of thousands of followers online and had frequently posted about her hands-off, environmentally-responsible parenting style.

She will be eligible to apply for parole in November 2025.

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