CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 19 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
A West Australian man who admitted downloading more than 2500 videos of children being sexually abused from the dark web has been sentenced to four years and five months' imprisonment by the Perth District Court.
The man, 52, was sentenced yesterday (18 September, 2025) after pleading guilty to three offences. He will be eligible for parole in two years and four months.
An investigation began in June, 2024, when the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) received a referral from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States regarding a person accessing a dark web child exploitation site.
The matter was repor...