A MAN found with "vile" child abuse images and videos has been sentenced to a 30 month community corrections order.
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The 19-year-old pleaded guilty in June to possessing and accessing material which the prosecution said depicted "torturous abuse of infants".
Magistrate Russell Kelly said the man would face a long time in jail if he breached the conditions of the community corrections order.
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In June, the court heard officers from the Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team were informed about the man's offending on December 8, 2019.
Police executed a search warrant at the man's Elmore home on September 10 last year and officers seized 10 electronic devices.
Detectives took 40 hours to analyse the devices and found about 10,000 child abuse images and videos.
The material depicted adult men sexually abusing children as young as four months old.
The court heard the children were clearly in pain as they were depicted crying and screaming.
During his interview with police, the man admitted to possessing and accessing the child abuse material through online chat sites.
He told police he downloaded the images so he could look back at the material, and that he never deleted them off his devices.
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The man said he only preferred males and that the ages "did not bother" him.
Mr Kelly said the offender's young age was the primary factor in his sentencing considerations.
"Were you of the age of 25 ... you'd be looking at a substantial jail term," Mr Kelly said.
Mr Kelly said if the man came before the courts for anything similar to his offending in the future, he would be going to jail for a long time.
Mr Kelly said the material would have lasting affect on the police officers who had to view it.
He said the images depicted "vile" criminal behaviour.
Mr Kelly said it was clear to him that not withstanding the offence dates, the offender was under 18 at the time of some of the offending.
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