{"id":42457,"date":"2025-09-25T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42457\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:46:07","slug":"auckland-man-sentenced-for-possessing-child-exploitation-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42457\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland man sentenced for possessing child exploitation material"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Auckland man has been sentenced to nine months’ home detention for possessing child sexual exploitation material involving children as young as 5 years old.<\/p>\n

Lee Irving Musham was sentenced in the Manukau District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to one representative charge of knowingly possessing child sexual exploitation material.<\/p>\n

Searches of Musham’s residential and business addresses were carried out following an investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs’ digital child exploitation team.<\/p>\n

Several electronic devices were seized, which after forensic examination were found to contain images of sexual exploitation of children as young as 5 years old, bestiality, and computer-generated files promoting bestiality.<\/p>\n

“Collecting and viewing this material is not passive offending,” the DIA’s manager of the digital child exploitation team, Tim Houston, said.<\/p>\n

“It condones the abuse children suffer to satisfy the market for these images.<\/p>\n

“One way we work to put an end to this form of child abuse is to stop those who create, collect and distribute this material.”<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/p>\n

Where to get help for sexual violence. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Musham was not required to register as a child sex offender. However, the devices used to commit the offending were ordered to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the digital child exploitation team conducted 69 investigations into child exploitation, which helped to safeguard 14 New Zealand children from harm, the DIA said.<\/p>\n

“Additionally, the digital child exploitation filtering system blocked over one million attempts to access websites hosting child sexual abuse material.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland man has been sentenced to nine months’ home detention for possessing child sexual exploitation material involving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-42457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42457","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=42457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}