“In this respect you have been true to your word.” He had told police it was a relief to be caught because “now you would be able to stop”, Judge O’Connell said. He had borne the burden of leading St John’s while the school was scandalised by fraud allegations in 2016, the court heard. Smith had partly blamed a combination of work stress and abuse of GHB and ice on weekends. He accessed child porn from websites, Dropbox, Zoom chat rooms and a USB stick uploaded from a friend’s home computer. Smith had used his laptop encrypted with Tor software to make his activity difficult to trace. “The behaviour of the like you engaged in does feed and encourage the abject exploitation of innocent young children.” “The depravity of this type of offending is unfortunately only too well known to this court. The images were relatively low in number but “particularly depraved”, “shocking” and “disturbing”, Judge Michael O’Connell said during sentencing on 31 October. Police seized a vial of GHB, a laptop and thumb-drives with 156 files of child exploitation material collected over about 12 months. Quentin Paul Smith, 50, had worked at St John’s Regional College for 11 years up until being charged by police after a raid of his home in March 2019, the County Court of Victoria heard.
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