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Officer Mark Torres was placed on administrative leave Monday night. Hours later, after being questioned by public-integrity investigators over the $700 theft, he was arrested on one count of felony theft by a public servant.
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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney
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Cop guilty of possessing child
A police superintendent has been found guilty of possession of child pornography, but the Director of Police Prosecutions is not seeking a custodial sentence.
Vivian "Rex" Little, 52, who has worked in Broken Hill and Lake Macquarie, was found guilty by Deputy Chief Magistrate Paul Cloran in the Downing Centre Local Court this morning of possessing two computer disks containing child pornography. The disks were found among his possessions in 2006 by his then wife, Kathy Frost.
Little, a father of four, who has been suspended from duty, elected to have the charge heard before a magistrate and to represent himself.
Mr Cloran said that the two disks were among 32 that were discovered by Ms Frost in a box marked "Rex, personal" in Little's bedroom on January 23, 2006.
The couple had separated in November 2004, and Little had gone to Broken Hill for a posting but had returned in December 2005 and had lived in the family home at Eleebana on Lake Macquarie.
Ms Frost had been searching through Little's possessions on January 23, 2006, to find evidence that he had been seeing another woman.
When she discovered the contents of the box - which contained images of naked women, pornographic material including some of children and lubricating gel - she took possession of them, locked them in a caravan and the following day initiated divorce proceedings.
She had challenged Little over the images and according to her evidence he had suggested that one of his sons had downloaded them and that he had taken it up with them to see what they knew about it.
Mr Cloran said Ms Frost had not gone to the police, but in July 2006 had mentioned what she had found in a conversation with a prosecutor, who then informed his superior by email.
The matter had then been referred to the Police Integrity Commission which had executed a search warrant on March 23 last year and had found compromising material. Little had later been served with a court attendance notice.
Mr Cloran said he was of the view that there was "overwhelming evidence" that Little had been in possession of child pornography and knew about it. He found that Little had admitted to his wife that he had downloaded the material and that the offence was proved.
Ms Kate Nightingale, from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, said in sentencing submissions that the courts were obliged to deal severely with offences that involved the exploitation of children. The maximum penalty for the offence under summary jurisdiction was an $11,000 fine or a gaol sentence of two years.
But Ms Nightingale said it also had to be taken into account that there were only two disks with this material among 32.
She said the Crown would not be pushing for a custodial sentence and suggested that the magistrate might consider a community service order.
Mr Cloran said he noted that Little was not previously "known to police", "and I would not have expected that you would be".
He adjourned the hearing until Friday next week for Little to take legal advice on sentencing submissions.
Outside the court, Little said he would be appealing against the verdict but would make no further comment.
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