Child Porn - An Equal Opportunity Perversion - It's Everywhere

Even New Zealand and Australia

The man admitted 30 charges under the Films, Videos, and Publications
Classification Act. File photo

A Dunedin, New Zealand process worker distributed almost 2500 child sexual abuse images to a group of paedophiles in the four years from April 2011, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.

Raymond Garry Westeneng, 50, told police he had to possess then distribute the objectionable publications to gain credibility within the group of paedophiles so he could increase his own collection for his viewing pleasure.

Westeneng admitted 30 charges under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act - 28 of possessing child-specific child pornography images, and two representative charges of distributing such images and possessing them for the purpose of distribution.

He was convicted and remanded in custody, by consent, for sentence in December.

The summary from prosecutor Acting Sergeant Adrian Cheyne said Westeneng accessed internet chatrooms about twice a week during the past four years.

He would focus on chat forums with names including "incest chat" and engage in typed discussions with others about the sexual abuse of children and the sharing of publications relating to child sexual exploitation.

After making contact with other paedophiles, Westeneng would receive instructions or provide instructions to move the group out of the chatroom and on to sharing platforms.

He would upload files, distributing objectionable publications into the file-sharing website and would view other users' material. If the publications interested him, he would download them to his computer.

It was estimated the defendant distributed, on average, 12 publications a week, amounting to more than 2496 objectionable publications over the four years, Acting Sgt Cheyne said.

On January 28 last year, a police officer from the United States was conducting covert inquiries into a chatroom. When the officer claimed to be the mother of a child, Westeneng said he would like to see the child being sexually violated by a male on live web camera. In return he would send hardcore child pictures.

Westeneng distributed a file containing 60 publications, 50 of the images and seven of the videos being objectionable publications involving children.

Police searched his home on April 17 and seized his computer. It was found to contain files predominantly involving girls who were naked or in sexually explicit positions.

There were 1400 pictures and two videos of children being exploited.

Meanwhile in Australia

There are complaints that Queensland's focus on biker gangs has deprived sexually abused children of effective law enforcement as child exploitation explodes.

Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission says child exploitation became “endemic”.

 Child exploitation has increased in Queensland, Mr Byrne said. (9NEWS)

Queensland child sex abusers “grew an alarming demand for increasingly depraved material, increasing the demand for vicitms,” he said.

“I think you can count the number of people who do the difficult job of finding these images on less than one hand.

“The great work that Taskforce Argos (the police child exploitation unit) does is simply swamped by the lack of resources.”