A South Australian man will spend almost nine years in jail for sexually abusing his girlfriend's daughter and boasting about it to an undercover police officer trying to catch paedophiles online.
He also said he wanted to abuse the police officer's made-up children.
The 39-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sent videos and photos of sexual abuse to the police officer after she placed an advertisement on a free classifieds website.
The police officer pretended to be a woman with daughters aged nine and 12 who was interested in incest, the District Court heard.
The paedophile told her he would like to sexually abuse them and sent her 11 videos of girls as young as five being abused.
After meeting the supposed-mother in a coffee shop in November 2019, he sent her details about a game he would play with his girlfriend's five-year-old daughter to get her to have oral sex with him, leading to charges of unlawful sexual intercourse, procuring a child to engage in sexual activity and producing child pornography.
The man and his girlfriend met through online dating at a similar time to when the man began chatting to the police officer.
Little insight into offending
In her victim impact statement, the girl drew a picture of herself with a sad face and wrote: "I don't like you. You have a bad habit. You are mean to me. I don't love you. You have hurt my feelings."
The man told the court-appointed psychologist that he only sent the police officer the images to "impress" her and that he was only interested in incestuous relationships involving adults.
"I make it clear, I do not accept that," Judge Liesl Chapman said in sentencing.
"You communicated your intentions in no uncertain terms and had made an arrangement to meet her daughter just prior to your arrest. Your communications are unequivocal."
She said the man did not have much, if any, insight into his offending, instead blaming the girlfriend for leading him on an "adventure".
"No-one who has read these communications — the story of child abuse that you produced, the descriptions of the images in your possession and the descriptions of the videos you disseminated — would describe you as someone of good moral character or who has strong morals," Judge Chapman said.
Community to be protected
Judge Chapman discounted the man's sentence by 15 per cent because of guilty pleas but declared him a "serious repeat offender", meaning his non-parole period could not be less than four-fifths of his head sentence of 11 years, three months and seven days.
His non-parole period will be nine years, four months and 20 days, meaning he will be eligible for parole in May 2029, taking into account time already in custody and on home detention.
"Your offending was depraved," Judge Chapman said.
"The community needs to be protected from a predator like you."
The girlfriend's daughter is now in a "safe place", the judge told the court.
