“He built up a level of depravity, there was a tendency to emotionally darken,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Judge Ellis told the court there was a “sensitive material description” on the brief he was to base his sentence on.<\/p>\n
“I don’t normally get that on a file, but there was a good reason for that,” he said.<\/p>\n
Scifleet was sentenced in Newcastle District Court. (ABC News: Jesmine Cheong)<\/p>\n
Judge Ellis said Scifleet had been collecting abuse images for a decade and could not “break out of the cycle” of viewing offending material.<\/p>\n
He told the court the 25-year-old would find it hard to survive physically and mentally in jail, and needed to move beyond his former cycle of offending.<\/p>\n
“You need to understand you have avoided going into custody by the skin of your teeth,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Judge Ellis said.<\/p>\n
“Any breaches will bring you back before the court and that is likely to mean you go into custody.”<\/p>\n
Scifleet’s community corrections order came with conditions, including a ban on owning any device with access to the internet.<\/p>\n
Access to the internet on someone else’s device must be supervised by a family member.<\/p>\n
The judge accepted Scifleet was unlikely to reoffend and stressed he must continue counselling and comply with an “extensive treatment plan”.<\/p>\n
He will also be on the Child Protection Register for eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has avoided time behind bars for possessing 34,000 child abuse images and more than a dozen…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[567,4740,109343,4471,281,33397,5333,50,7207,5332,989],"class_list":["post-604086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-abuse","tag-australia","tag-bestiality","tag-child","tag-court","tag-images","tag-jail","tag-news","tag-police","tag-prison","tag-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116104558761233256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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