A 42-year-old South Australian man who was found guilty of possessing thousands of images of child exploitation material and producing it, will spend at least two years behind bars.
Adam Neil Wonnocott was sentenced in South Australia's District Court to three-years-and-eight-months' imprisonment, backdated to March last year, with a non-parole period of two years.
Wonnocott had pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing child exploitation material, three counts of aggravated possession, two counts of producing the material and one count of aggravated production.
The District Court heard Wonnocott had more than 11,000 images of child exploitation, ranging from material in categories one to five, in his possession.
During sentencing, Judge Rauf Soulio said the material showed he had created his own child exploitation material, with the faces of his extended family put onto those of children.
"That offending is distasteful and disturbing."
The court heard he accepted responsibility for his offending and admitted his "deviant sexual behaviour" was exacerbated by methamphetamine consumption.
Judge Soulio said Wonnocott denied sexually assaulting any children.
Judge Soulio said Wonnocott's risk of reoffending was moderate to high but it would decrease if he was to complete at least one year of a sexual offender treatment program, and a drug treatment program with a focus on relapse prevention.
"Children are abused, humiliated and degraded in the production of such material."
Jude Soulio said he took into consideration the number of images, their nature, age of children and the period in which offending had taken place.
"In your case, there are a significant number of children depicted, including children depicted in activities categorised in categories four and five, the most serious of the offending," he said.
"I bear in mind the issues of rehabilitation that you clearly require and the question of availability of such rehabilitation in custody … and the need for psychological treatment and drug rehabilitation."
