A 61-year-old man who uploaded child abuse material to the social media platform, Instagram, has been sentenced to four years and six months’ jail in Parramatta District Court yesterday.
The man was caught after Australian Federal Police (AFP) received three reports from the United States’ National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that an Instagram user was accessing and uploading child abuse material to the platform.
“AFP Eastern Command Child Protection Operations started an investigation and linked the Shalvey man to the Instagram account,” the AFP said in a statement.
“In July 2020, members of the Eastern Command Child Protection Operations and Imagery and Geomatics teams executed a search warrant on the man’s home and found two smart phones and five electronic storage devices. The man was arrested after making admissions to having child abuse material on a phone located within a vehicle on the premises.”
The man pleaded guilty in March 2021 to two child abuse offences. He will not be eligible for parole before 5 November, 2023.
