A Port Macquarie man has received a suspended jail sentence for sending indecent material to a person under 16 years.
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Blake James Studders, 23, of Highfields Circuit was sentenced in the Port Macquarie District Court on June 15.
He appeared before Judge R Ellis.
Studders pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to send indecent material to person under 16 years.
Judge Ellis sentenced Studders to 12 months in jail to commence on June 15, 2020 and expiring on June 14, 2021.
However, the sentence was suspended on the condition that Studders enter into a self-recognisance of $1000 without security.
Judge Ellis also set several conditions.
These included, that Studders be of good behaviour for two years - commencing June 15, 2020; and, that he accept Community Corrections Service supervision for as long as considered necessary and obey all reasonable directions of that service in relation to treatment and counselling targeting mental health issues generally.
Studders must also continue with psychological treatment and counselling with a medical practitioner.
The charge relates to incidents that occurred in March 2019.
Studders was charged as part of the ongoing investigation by Strike Force Trawler.
Strike Force Trawler is an ongoing investigation by the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad's Child Exploitation Internet Unit into the sexual abuse and exploitation of children facilitated through the internet and related telecommunications devices.
Regular covert online investigations are conducted by the CEIU; and police in NSW work closely with their law-enforcement colleagues interstate and overseas.
The court also directed that Studders' Samsung mobile phone was forfeited to the Commonwealth.
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