Abhijeet Kulkarni will spend up to eight years behind bars after posing as young girls to solicit child pornography from several teenage victims across Australia.
An IT worker has been sentenced to more than eight years behind bars for extorting child porn ography from multiple teenage victims.
"Sadly, there are predators online who take advantage of what should be a fairly normal way in which young people grow into their sexuality," Judge Pickering said. "People are quite able to effectively live two different lives and be a good person in one area and a criminal in another."The court heard the offender was first reported to police by his adult victim after he responded to their Gumtree advertisement for the sale of a school boy uniform.
The offender sent 5,000 messages to the teenage boy over the course of the offending, as well as more than 300 child pornography files. During one exchange, Kulkarni told the boy he was a "child porn collector and trader" and asked whether he knew about "capping", the act of tricking someone into doing something improper and then recording it.Kulkarni told the boy he would share the explicit photos of him with his school if that happened.
"Even today I find it incredibly difficult to forge romantic relationships because of the deep emotional wounds inflicted upon me."
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