objectionable<\/a> and child exploitation material.<\/p>\nThere were 52 images and nine videos, with two in the most serious category, 1A, and 22 in 1B.<\/p>\n
A further 26 images and videos were found in category 2A and eight that were 2B.<\/p>\n
When questioned by police, Kingsford admitted downloading the content on both phones and knew it was illegal.<\/p>\n
He said he purposely downloaded the content so that police would find it and did so because he was \u201cmiserable and deserved unhappiness\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018750,000 sexual predators online\u2019<\/p>\n
Court documents state there are more than 200 new child sexual abuse images circulated daily on the internet.<\/p>\n
The number of sexual predators online at any one time was estimated at 750,000.<\/p>\n
Demand for new child sexual abuse images resulted in a cycle of abuse for existing victims and demands for new ones.<\/p>\n
The abused child carried that burden for the rest of their life, the documents say.<\/p>\n
Kingsford, by possessing the imagery, directly contributed to the further revictimisation of those children.<\/p>\n
There was also an increasing trend towards younger victims and greater brutality, with infants and toddlers being raped for the \u201cenjoyment of viewers\u201d.<\/p>\n
Since 1997, the number of child pornography images on the internet has increased by 1500%.<\/p>\n
\u2018Most serious\u2019 <\/p>\n
Judge Noel Cocurullo labelled Kingsford\u2019s offending as \u201cmost serious\u201d.<\/p>\n
He also noted Kingsford had been before the court on three or four occasions since first presenting a Section 27 report in February 2024.<\/p>\n
Kingsford, through his counsel Jarom Keung, submitted a letter from his father outlining his \u201cextremely difficult circumstances\u201d growing up.<\/p>\n
Given the repetitive nature and seriousness of his offending, Judge Cocurullo jailed Kingsford for 19 months.<\/p>\n
Belinda Feek is an Open Justice reporter based in Waikato. She has worked at NZME for 11 years and has been a journalist for 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201852 images, nine videos\u2019 Police found Kingsford with two cellphones that had objectionable and child exploitation material. There…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1903,17517,55914,2511,5767,177436,113963,6286,1874,42,177434,6287,156506,43,17699,2063,177435,312,7680,17703,40,38,41,39,37457,102],"class_list":["post-330341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abuse","tag-because","tag-brodie","tag-child","tag-convicted","tag-deserved","tag-downloaded","tag-exploitation","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-kingsford","tag-material","tag-miserable","tag-news","tag-offender","tag-phones","tag-purposely","tag-says","tag-sex","tag-sexual","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unhappiness","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}