Tas: Child porn trader jailed for four months

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2009
Tas: Child porn trader jailed for four months

A nurse who traded child pornography while enthusing about the sexual torture of children
on the internet .. has been sentenced to serve a minimum four months jail in Tasmania.

But LINDSAY LATHAM of New Norfolk .. has had six months of a ten month sentence suspended
by Supreme Court Justice SHAN TENNENT in sentencing today.

The 52-year-old nurse had earlier pleaded guilty to 93 crimes .. involving possessing
.. distributing and producing child pornography .. including images of adults in sex acts
with babies.

LATHAM posed as a woman online .. and was caught in an international police bust in April 2007.

He will have to comply with the requirements of having his name placed on the state's
child sex offender register for seven years.

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KEYWORD: LATHAM (HOBART)

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