Our fucking justice system sucks just put them in jail and throw away the key.
Wednesday August 15, 06:41 PM
Tip-off sees second man convicted on child porn
A second international tip-off has led to another New Zealander being locked up for possessing images of children being sexually abused.
Warren Neil Smith, 50, was jailed for eight months today after earlier pleading guilty in Tauranga District Court to 15 representative charges of possessing objectionable publications.
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Internal Affairs deputy secretary Keith Manch said German police alerted the department's censorship compliance unit to a number of New Zealanders who had downloaded child sex abuse movies from an Internet forum.
Smith was one of them, and the department found several hundred movies of children engaged in various sexual acts and poses when his computer equipment was searched.
He was given leave to apply for home detention but the court declined to defer his sentence so he will spend time behind bars pending a hearing by the Parole Board.
Yesterday, a 64-year-old Taumarunui man pleaded guilty in the district court there to 20 representative charges of possessing an objectionable publication.
Bruce Alexander Suttie was sentenced to eight months in prison after a United States government agency tip-off. He was given leave to apply for home detention.
The department searched his home in May 2005 and found 802 sexually explicit pictures of girls aged between three months and 12 years.
"We hope these prosecutions serve as a warning to others indulging in this activity that they will be caught," Mr Manch said.
"Countries are co-operating to fight this trade because the children who feature in these pictures are the victims of abuse by adults. Those who seek to profit from it either by trading in the images or seeking personal gratification need to be stopped."
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