Man jailed for more than five years for collecting child exploitation material

WARNING: Contains content about sexual offending against children and animals.

A Tasman man has been jailed for more than five years for collecting thousands of child exploitation photos and videos, described by a judge as graphic and horrific.

Storm Uriah Constable-Carter pleaded guilty in the Nelson District Court in August to 50 charges relating to the creation, possession and distribution of child exploitation and bestiality material.

Investigators described the material as some of the worst they had seen in more than two decades of work. It featured the extreme sexual exploitation of children and infants, and the torture and sexual abuse of a range of different animals.

The 22-year-old was charged in August after the Department of Internal Affairs' Digital Child Exploitation Team launched an investigation after a video file, depicting bestiality involving an toddler was found in two cloud storage accounts.

Investigators found more than 60,000 objectionable publications across nine internet accounts created and controlled by Constable-Carter with more than 10,000 objectionable items shared with others.

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