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Craig Silvey: Australian Author Sentenced to Prison over Child Exploitation Offences
- On Monday, author Craig Silvey, 44, was sentenced to seven months jail after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material, with Judge Karen Shepherd condemning his offending as 'extremely serious and extremely disturbing.'
- Charges followed a January police raid on Silvey's Fremantle home, where detectives found explicit images including one of an adult with a prepubescent child, plus five videos and two images on his laptop and five images on his phone.
- Using the online handle 'Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy,' Silvey described himself as 'extremely open-minded and obsessed with taboos' and stated he preferred boys aged 'five plus' with 'eight' being 'the perfect age,' writing 'I love, love, love, love mums being intimate with little boys.'
- Publishers Allen & Unwin and Fremantle Press halted promotion after his arrest, while Education Minister Sabine Winton ordered Western Australia's public schools to remove his books; Prosecutor Daniel Harrop told the court Silvey's offending 'completely shattered' the safety vulnerable children found in his novels.
- Once celebrated for his 2009 bestseller Jasper Jones, which sold more than 600,000 copies worldwide, Silvey's defense lawyer Eloise Barker claimed he 'doesn't have a sexual interest in children,' though Judge Hayley Cormann accepted he expressed remorse with low reoffending risk.
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Police discovered child exploitation material on Craig Silvey’s electronic devices during a raid at his Fremantle home in January
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Award‑winning Australian author jailed over child exploitation offenses
SYDNEY — Award‑winning Australian children's author Craig Silvey has been sentenced to seven months in jail for possessing and distributing child exploitation material.Handing down her sentence on Monday, Judge Hayley Cormann called Silvey's actions "repulsive" and "degrading".In January, Silvey was arrested after police raided his home in Western Australia and seized several electronic devices. In May, the 44-year-old pleaded guilty to possessi…
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