Vic: Court to decide on teacher child porn charges
A Melbourne magistrate will decide today whether a former primary teacher who wrotedown sexual fantasies about his students should stand trial on child porn charges.
In what is believed to be a legal first in Victoria, the 59-year-old former teacheris facing 47 counts including possessing and making child pornography, over personal writingshe kept in exercise books.
At a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, his lawyer JULIE SUTHERLANDconceded the descriptions of sex with under-age children are pornographic.
However, Ms SUTHERLAND argued the hand-written material does not fall within the categoryof publication as defined by the law because her client never intended his private jottingsto become public.
Crown Prosecutor MICHAEL TINNEY says that under child porn laws a publication is simplydefined as any written or pictorial material.
Deputy chief magistrate DANIEL MULING will give his decision later today.
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KEYWORD: FANTASY (MELBOURNE)
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