A District Court jury deliberated almost a day before this afternoon finding 60-year-old pharmacist Kenneth Leslie Sternes guilty of using a carriage service, the internet, to groom a person under 16 and eight of using the internet to expose a child under 16 to indecent material between January 7 and February 25 last year.
At the same time entertainment manager and part-time radio announcer Christopher Francis Costello, 50, was before another court several rooms away being sentenced to 2¼ years' jail after a Brisbane jury in July found him guilty of similar offences between January 19 and February 16, last year.
In both cases the men were chatting with the same male police officer posing as "Cassie" in computer internet chatrooms.
"Cassie" who was in fact an officer for the Queensland Police Service's Crime Operations Command Taskforce Argos described herself in her internet profile as a sexually inexperienced 14-year-old girl living with her mother at Browns Plains.
Commonwealth prosecutors, in both cases, said the men started corresponding with "Cassie" - who used the internet username "cassiedaluvbug" - in a Yahoo Messenger internet chat room and later continued communicating with via MSN Messenger.
Prosecutor Deb Mayall, in opening the case against Sternes this week, said the pharmacist went by the computer nickname "aussiejimmy3" and asked "Cassie" for her mobile number, questions of a sexual nature and whether she was sexually experienced and interested in boys.
She said during internet chats and messages Sternes encouraged "Cassie" to pleasure herself sexually, not tell her mother of their chat exchanges, asking to meet her for sexual encounters and if she considered him to be her boyfriend.
Sternes also sent the "girl" photos and videos of his exposed penis and of himself masturbating on eight occasions.
Ms Mayall said during internet chats Sternes asked the girl "if she had boobs or hair down there" and even "offered to educate" her on matters of a sexual nature.
Sternes has been remanded in custody for sentencing on a date to be fixed.
In July, the Commonwealth prosecutor Glenn Rice revealed Costello spent 13-hours sending messages to "Cassie" and sent "her" photographic images of himself shaving his pubic hair and masturbating.
Costello had been the holder of a Blue Card - a government permit which allowed him to work or volunteer with children.
Judge David Reid today jailed Costello for 27 months, but ordered he be eligible for release from September 10 next year.
heraldsun.com.au 20 Nov 2010
Watch as these people get let out and in the future not only re offend, but their crimes go up a level.
It is well known, within the legal fraternity, that there is little chance of rehabilitation.
Scientists have recently discovered the gene 'responsible', that triggers the hosts heinous sex acts
The legal system will deliberately fail the general populous once again, as it has countless times before, and in the latest example of :
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