A 23-YEAR-OLD man who had nearly 150,000 brutal and depraved child abuse and bestiality images on his mobile phones and computer when police raided his Lilydale bungalow was sentenced to 16 months' jail.
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Mitchell Thomas Adey pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Launceston in July to possession of child exploitation material and bestiality product that he had been accumulating over three years.
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Police visited a Lilydale property on July 22, 2019, where he lived in a separate self-contained outbuilding and seized two Samsung mobile phones and a computer tower containing two hard drives.
Justice Michael Brett suspended 10 months of his sentence on the condition that he commit not imprisonable offences for 18 months.
He ordered that Adey be registered under the Community Protection and Offender Reporting Act for four years upon release.
Justice Brett said general deterrence was a prime sentencing consideration because of the free access of images from the Internet. He said that Adey could not have had any doubt about the depraved nature of the material and it appeared he had become immersed and desensitised.
Adey, who had no prior offences, had so many images and videos that police were only able to examine about 34 per cent of them.
He collected the material over three years which was a concern. Justice Brett said much of the material was horrific and distressing.
Some of the material was in the worst category because of the age of the children and the nature of the content including newborn babies to 17 years of age.
He also had possession of 483 videos or images depicting adult humans engaged in sexual acts with animals.