He was working as a senior business consultant at the City of Melbourne at the time, earning a wage of $85,000.Ī psychologist’s report tendered to the court said Bayliss was trapped in a cycle of guilt over his actions, and sought to escape his low self-esteem by retreating to masturbation and thoughts involving power and dominance. The County Court heard that at the time of the offences, Bayliss was already on the sex offender register and had been spared a jail term after being found guilty of possessing more than 800 child pornography images in 2004. “Some appeared to hold you in high esteem because of your ability to compose descriptions of extremely graphic and violent sexual acts and for your collection of child pornography,” Magistrate Mason said. In sentencing, County Court judge Howard Mason described Bayliss’ text conversations as “grossly depraved and sickening” and said the images he accessed were at “a very serious level”. However, they found chat logs and evidence that he had transferred child pornography files on GigaTribe.īayliss initially denied any wrongdoing in police interviews, but pleaded guilty when he was committed to stand trial. When Australian Federal Police raided Bayliss’ home in June 2011, they were unable to find the images and videos on his computer. He also participated in online text conversations containing graphic depictions of sexual activity and abuse of young children. The County Court heard that Bayliss, 40, sent more than 970 child pornography images and videos and received more than 1000 similar files between June 2009 and June 2011.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Appeal rejected Bayliss’ application to appeal against the length of the three-and-a-half year jail term imposed by the County Court in September. Ken Ross Bayliss, a former Melbourne City Council employee, pleaded guilty last year to using internet chat rooms and file-sharing program GigaTribe to access and transmit hundreds of child pornography images and videos. No sentence reduction for former City of Melbourne employee on child porn offencesĪ man convicted of “grossly depraved and sickening” child pornography offences has lost a Supreme Court bid to have his jail term reduced. He was bailed with strict conditions to his parents’ house and banned from having contact with children aged under 16.Īuckland-born Gillespie, who also runs a lawn mowing business, resigned from his on-call job at Banora Point fire station in December. The charges carry a 15-year maximum penalty. The Telegraph said Gillespie had pleaded guilty to six charges which included the downloading and promotion of child porn and possession of child abuse material.
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I download it on my computer,” he allegedly told police after his arrest. In a five-day period alone, he’s alleged to have downloaded 6000 files containing images and videos of child abuse, the Telegraph reported.ĭuring an online conversation, Gillespie allegedly told the discussion forum he liked “pre-teen” children. Police say he joined file-sharing website GigaTribe last April and under the user name “Tommyfun1”. Gillespie, who received a special award for his firefighting work during the 2012 Queensland floods, had boasted online that he enjoyed “pre-teen” child porn, police said. Tony Brian Gillespie, 31, was arrested last November after police seized two laptops and mobile phones from his home at Banora Point in northern New South Wales, The Daily Telegraph reports. NZ-born firefighter pleads guilty over child pornography charges in AustraliaĪ decorated New Zealand-born fireman has been caught sharing thousands of child pornography images and videos in Australia.
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