Guilty plea entered on child porn

By Whitney Harris
Updated November 7 2012 - 3:19am, first published November 23 2010 - 10:39am

A MARYBOROUGH man who had accused police of planting evidence of child pornography at his home has pleaded guilty to seven charges including using the internet to groom a child for sex.Bryan Cooper, 25, pleaded guilty to the charges in the Bendigo County Court yesterday.No evidence was heard before Judge Lance Pilgrim and no application for bail was made. Cooper will be held in custody until a plea hearing in the same court on December 17. During a committal hearing in the Bendigo Magistrates Court earlier this year, Cooper accused members of the Australian Federal Police of planting evidence of child pornography at his home when they raided it in November last year.The court also heard accusations that Cooper had used an internet chat service to groom young girls for sexual activity and used the web to download and transmit child pornography.An A4 image of a naked child was also found in a desk drawer at his home.Cooper was charged with those offences in November and was released on bail, with strict conditions prohibiting him from accessing the internet.The court heard that 10 months later he was again arrested after continuing to log onto the internet, grooming girls for sex.He has been held in custody since that arrest in August.In the County Court yesterday Cooper pleaded guilty to seven charges, including using a carriage service to access and transmit child pornography, using a carriage service to procure a child under the age of 16 and knowingly possessing child pornography.

Subscribe now for unlimited access.

$0/

(min cost $0)

or signup to continue reading

See subscription options

Get the latest Bendigo news in your inbox

Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date.

We care about the protection of your data. Read our Privacy Policy.