Daniel Paul Gillard was found guilty of trading in the worst variety of child exploitation material including babies being raped.
He walked free from the courthouse with a $100 bond .... no seriously. It'd sure be a real shame if his face became suddenly famous now wouldn't it .... real shame indeed... almost as shameful as his pathetic cowardly acts.
You'll also love his just sheer pathetic loser of a reason for trading the images. His 14 year old internet girlfriend broke up with him so he was filling the void left by her .... umm dude that means you were in a statutory rape relationship, the only reason he did not commit the act is because it was only an internet relationship. Could this guy get anymore of a waste of space if he tried ?
What is much worse than his excuse is what he did, he traded in 279 depraved horrible pictures of children as young as babies being abused, hurt tortured sadistically all for the pathetic ego feeding of child rapists. These images and all those who trade in them contribute to the rape and torture of children and babies. Make no mistake about it this is far from a victimless crime, behind every single image and video he traded is a life destroyed.
It was said in the proceedings that Mr Gillard got a "rush" every time he shared a picture and these rushes filled the void left behind by his 14 year old internet girlfriend breaking up with him. It was also said that there was no doubt he was feeling a sexual attraction to the victims in the pictures.
His lawyer Jon Lister said that he and his 14 year old internet girlfriend from Oklahoma USA would trade sexually explicit photographs of one another and only after she broke up with him did he go looking for a way to continue that relationship when "someone" online suggested that this would be a good way for him to get over his depression....... Sadly the judge bought this load of rubbish.
Judge Geraldine Davison of the Adelaide District court dubbed his crimes “very serious”, saying a “strong message” must be sent to deter both him and others in the community.
She then suspended Gillard’s 15-month non-parole period on condition of a three-year, $100 good behaviour bond.
“You are a young man with no previous criminal history, you have embarked upon a course of counselling and rehabilitation (and) have supportive parents,” she said.
“Despite the fact that these offences are very serious, I’ve come to the view that there is good reason to suspend your sentence.
“(The suspended term) is a long time for a young man to be in jail ... the only way to ensure you don’t end up there is to commit no further offences and comply with the bond.”
Gillard, 22, faced a maximum 12-year jail term after pleading guilty to multiple basic and aggravated counts of both possessing and disseminating child pornography.
The court previously heard he turned to child pornography after breaking up with his 14-year-old, US-based online girlfriend as a way of combating depression.
Gillard had admitted experiencing “a rush of excitement” whenever he received a new image from his perverse trading partners but denied being sexually attracted to children.
Judge Davison said she found that denial “difficult to accept” given the nature of the material.
“Five of the images, and one video, were classed (by police) as category five child exploitation material, which is the most serious category,” she said.
“That category involves children under the age of 14 depicted in sadism, bestiality, humiliation of child abuse.
“The majority of the images were of prepubescent females, from babies to the age of 10 or 11 ... they were very graphic, troubling and disturbing.”
Judge Davison said the courts must “send a strong message” of deterrence to Gillard and like-minded offenders, emphasising child pornography was “not a victimless crime”.