A Rotorua man has been jailed for three years for uploading pornographic photos of children, including a two-year-old, on to the internet.
Christopher David Harold Grant, 43, was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court on Friday after earlier pleading guilty to one charge of doing an indecent act on a child, four of making objectionable publications, 10 of possessing objectionable publications and two of distributing them.
Grant's former wife said in her victim impact statement, which was read to the court, that Grant had pretended to be a Christian, even taking his Bible to bed with him.
She asked that Grant, a former hotel porter, not be given name suppression because she wanted people to know what he had done.
During sentencing Judge James Weir said: "(Your former wife) is saddened and totally shocked, she doesn't believe you are a true Christian and I totally agree."
The court had earlier heard police and Internal Affairs swooped on Grant's home after a tip-off from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in the US that indicated he was uploading images of underage teenagers posing naked.
He had also taken pictures of himself with a two-year-old girl while both of them were naked and created a nudist page on the internet where he talked about the child.
Judge Weir said Grant's pre-sentence report indicated he showed little or no empathy with his victims or the effect his actions had on them.
He said the charges suggested Grant was suffering from paedophilia which Grant categorically denied.
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