Greens federal election candidate Jonathan Doig has been jailed for multiple child abuse offences, including paying to watch and direct the live stream of a girl being sexually abused in the Philippines.
Jonathan Doig, who stood against Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the seat of Cook in 2019, was sentenced to nine years' jail on Friday in the NSW District Court.
He was arrested in 2020 and accused of storing hundreds of child abuse images on his computer.
He earlier pleaded guilty to procuring a child for - and engaging in - sexual activity outside Australia, possessing or controlling child abuse material using a carriage service, and using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material to himself.
Prosecutor Danielle New had told the court that Doig gestured for the Filipina girl he was watching online "to lift her leg" and "tells her to come closer".
She said that Doig displayed "active involvement when she exposes her vagina to him," and he mobilised a video camera application to record her.
His June 2020 bail hearing was told that he had paid to watch and direct the live stream of a 13-year-old schoolgirl being abused in real time.
Sydney's Central Local Court was then told how the software engineer had been conversing daily with the teenage victim since December 2019 until his arrest, and hundreds of videos had been exchanged.
Doig will be eligible to apply for parole after five-and-a-half years.
