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Adelaide paedophile who wanted to infect children with HIV
to plead guilty to 142 more offences
By court reporter Claire Campbell
The lawyer for an HIV-positive paedophile who talked about infecting children with the virus has told an Adelaide court his client will admit to committing more than 180 child exploitation crimes.
Jadd William Brooker, 39, has been charged with 142 offences, including persistent sexual exploitation of a child, maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, communicating to make a child amenable to sex and possessing and disseminating child exploitation material.
His lawyer, Tim Clarke, told the Adelaide Magistrates Court he had asked the case be called on early as his client wanted to plead guilty to all but four of those offences.
"My client will record pleas to all counts, with the exception [of four]," he told the court.
"What I was going to propose to you if the court notes those pleas… sending the information to my client so he can sign it."
But Magistrate Simon Smart said he would not accept guilty pleas until he had read the charges to Brooker and he did not have time to read 142.
Brooker is expected to enter pleas at his next court appearance in November.
Offending among 'worst and most degrading'
Brooker is in custody after pleading guilty to dozens of child exploitation charges earlier this year.
The court has previously heard Brooker's victims included boys from Adelaide, NSW and Italy, as well as several unidentified children.
One investigating officer previously told the court Brooker's offending was the "worst and most degrading witnessed in 14 years of investigation".
The court also previously heard that Brooker was conversing with a "like-minded individual" about his desire to infect children with HIV.
His arrest has led to the arrest of several other people charged with child exploitation offences, including former Labor staffer Ben Waters.
Japanese man arrested after using deepfake technology
to uncensor & resell porn videos in first AI case
19 Oct, 2021 13:49
A Japanese man who removed mandatory censorship from pornography using artificial intelligence and resold the images was arrested on Monday for violating laws on copyright and obscenity.
43-year-old Masayuki Nakamoto reportedly made roughly 11 million yen, or nearly $100,000, by using an AI technique similar to ‘deepfakes’ which replaced the blurred genitals of pornographic stars with clear versions.
According to the Japanese news outlet NHK, Nakamoto admitted to having sold over 10,000 doctored videos and he also published ten explicit photos showing off the result of his technology on his website. As he doctored the pornography without permission, Nakamoto was arrested for violating copyright and spreading obscenity after a police cyber patrol discovered the material online.
The distribution of pornography and other “obscene objects” is illegal in Japan and punishable by up to two years in prison and a 2,500,000 yen fine. To circumvent restrictions, pornography companies self-censor the genitals of actors and actresses with a blur effect.
A cybercrime lawyer told Vice News that Nakamoto’s arrest was the “first case in Japan where police have caught an AI user,” and added that there is no specific law “criminalizing the use of AI to make such images.”
For years, AI-savvy internet users have used deepfake techniques to impose different faces on pornographic actresses’ bodies – resulting in thousands of doctored videos which purportedly show A-list celebrities in sexual scenes.
Last year, three Japanese men from Tokyo were arrested for defamation after making and selling 215 explicit videos using faked celebrity faces.
Teacher who sent explicit pics to 'teenage girl' snared
by paedo vigilante group
Daniel Stevenson, 52, contacted the girl's profile via the social media platform Kik.
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A secondary teacher shared videos of himself performing sexual acts to someone that he believed was a 14-year-old girl.
Daniel Stevenson, 52, contacted the girl's profile via the social media platform Kik in October last year.
Stevenson, who taught at Derby Moor Academy in Derby, communicated with the girl for two weeks, stating in messages how speaking to people of her age made him "aroused", reports Nottinghamshire Live.
He also sent images, videos and voice messages of him touching himself sexually.
However, the teacher was actually speaking to a group of online paedophile hunters called the Innocent Voices Team, who passed the chat logs and images on to the police.
Sarah Slater, prosecuting, told a sentencing hearing at Derby Crown Court that Stevenson initially contacted the profile on October 14 last year.
"He tells her he is a teacher," she said,
"He confirmed he enjoys talking to younger girls - he is aroused by it."
Miss Slater said he sent photos of his private parts to her whilst also sending a video and also a voice message where he is committing sexual acts while talking to her.
Miss Slater said it was "a two-week period where he's talking to somebody he thinks is a 14-year-old girl".
He was reported to the police by the Innocent Voices Team on October 31, who subsequently arrested him.
Derby Moor Academy where 52-year-old Daniel Stevenson was employed as a teacher (Image: Ian Hodgkinson)
Stevenson was later charged with and pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a child.
David Outterside, mitigating, said: "The only question is whether or not this inevitable prison sentence is capable of being suspended or not.
"He feels appalled with himself and is ashamed by his actions."
In the hearing on Wednesday, October 13, Judge Shaun Smith said this was a "particularly serious case of this type".
"Everybody who speaks of you speaks incredibly highly of you and are completely shocked that you would engage in this type of behaviour," he said.
Judge Smith said there were mitigating factors including Stevenson's previous good character and his charity work during the Covid pandemic.
He added the defendant had referred himself to the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity dedicated to preventing child sex abuse, following his arrest and had accessed psychological therapy services.
"It seems to me that you have demonstrated already that there is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation," he said.
Judge Smith imposed a sentence of eight months imprisonment, suspended for 21 months, meaning Stevenson walked free from Derby Crown Court.
He also ordered him to undergo 30 rehabilitation activity requirement sessions, undertake 240 hours of unpaid work and imposed a 10 year sexual harm prevention order.
I presume he will lose his teacher's license? If he has a problem with getting aroused just by talking to young girls. he has no place in a school.
Plainclothes officers to video call stations to verify their credentials
when stopping women – Met police chief
20 Oct, 2021 15:34
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Met Police officers out of uniform will video call station control rooms when stopping women, its chief has announced, as the force makes changes in an attempt to restore public trust in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder.
Speaking on Wednesday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick announced the launch of the force’s ‘safe connection’ initiative, which she said “allows a woman who is stopped by such a police officer immediately to have verification” that this person really is a member of law enforcement.
The Met chief said that “my plainclothes officers will call into a control room, they will then have a video call with a sergeant in uniform who will say ‘Yes, that’s so and so, he’s PC X, Y, Z’ – so a quick, easy way, which again is instigated by the officer, not by the woman having to ask for this... which I hope will be one way people can feel reassured.”
The verification check comes after a serving Metropolitan firearms officer, Wayne Couzens, used his warrant card and handcuffs to falsely detain Sarah Everard in March as she walked home from a friend’s house in South London, before he raped and murdered her.
Scotland Yard came under staunch criticism for its advice offered to women after Couzens was served a whole-life prison sentence late last month. The Met recommended that anyone who felt they were in “real and imminent danger” during an interaction with a plainclothes cop either flag a passer-by or call 999 to request that uniformed police come to the scene.
The murder sent shockwaves across the country, with the Met chief admitting that Couzens’ actions meant that “public trust has been damaged,” and “people are rightly gravely concerned about what they’ve seen.” Some demanded Dick’s resignation, or for her to step aside from her role, including ex-Met Chief Superintendent Parm Sandhu and former acting leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman.
This seems a little awkward and cumbersome but is better than nothing. However, there are always perverts who can easily find a police uniform to wear.
Would it be a better idea to have a phone app that with one button would take a picture and send a request for help to the nearest police dept?
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