Alastair Anning publically posted nude images of 15-year-old girl to Instagram
A man found with 10,000 child pornorgraphy images after coercing a teen girl into sending him nude photos before posting them to Instagram has been sentenced to less than two years behind bars.
Police found more than 10,000 ‘Category Four’ images and videos showing babies and children being sexually penetrated by adult when they searched the house of Alastair Wayne Anning, now 22, in 2015.
He was sentenced by the Maroochydore Supreme Court and served 117 days in prison, but returned to his twisted ways when he regained his freedom.
On Monday, Anning pleaded guilty in Maroochydore District Court to six child sex exploitation charges and four counts of ‘possessing child exploitation material’.
Alastair Wayne Anning was caught with more than 10,000 child pornography images in 2015
This included four counts of ‘possessing child exploitation material’,He also pleaded guilty to single counts of ‘involving a child in producing child exploitation material and making available child exploitation material’ after pressuring a 15-year-old girl into sending him nude photos by telling her that he would self-harm if she didn’t acquiesce to his request.
When the teen refused to send Anning any more pictures, he uploaded them to Instagram under her real name and location, according to the Sunshine Coast Daily.
His criminal history also includes making threats towards another teenage girl who refused to be his girlfriend, the court heard, for which he was slapped with nine months probation but no recorded conviction.
But Manning’s defence barrister Simone Bain told the court that her client had a difficult childhood, attempted suicide at the tender age of seven after his parent’s ‘vicious break-up’ ended in his mother abandoning him.
Anning has been graded at a ‘moderate’ risk of reoffending by court practitioners.
Judge Brian Devereaux sentenced Anning to 21 months prison for ‘child exploitation’ offences
Judge Brian Devereaux said Anning’s conduct was ‘serious’, and emphasises that even if offenders don’t personally know the children in the images, it is still considered ‘exploitation’.
He has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended after three months for two years for ‘making available child exploitation material’ and three months imprisonment for the rest of the charges.
He will be released on probation for two years and eight months, Judge Devereaux concluded.