A Gold Coast man caught possessing “depraved and degrading” child-abuse material depicting toddlers and other very young girls being viciously raped has avoided serving a single day in prison.
Why?
Because Judge Rowan Jackson KC decided imprisonment could interfere with the offender’s career and rehabilitation from methamphetamine addiction.
Who gives a fuck about his career?
Real Children. Real Rape. Real Demand.
Police searched Craig Faulkner’s Palm Beach home on December 30, 2024, seizing a laptop and USB flash drive.
A forensic examination uncovered:
- Eight unique images
- Fifteen unique videos
- Adult men vaginally and orally raping very young female children
These were not harmless computer files.
They were recordings of real babies and young children being viciously raped by filthy animals for the gratification of other filthy animals.
Every person who downloads, stores or watches this material contributes to the demand that drives its production.
Faulkner was not a detached spectator. He was part of the market.
But What About His Job?
Faulkner’s barrister argued that prison—even for several months—could force his employer to replace him and leave him having to “effectively rebuild” his career.
Good. Let him rebuild.
Those innocent children may spend their entire lives trying to rebuild what was violently destroyed.
Some may never enjoy an ordinary childhood, stable education, healthy relationships or the opportunity to build the kind of career the court was so concerned about protecting for Faulkner.
His employer was reportedly so supportive that its Human Resources department paid for his pre-sentence report.
How comforting for him.
The raped children received no employer-funded report, no “exceptional circumstances” and no protection from the animals destroying their lives.
Excuses Were Elevated Above Victims
The court heard that Faulkner had experienced a prejudicial upbringing, suffered from depression, anxiety and PTSD, and struggled with substance addiction.
So what?
Plenty of people suffer trauma, mental illness and addiction without collecting videos of babies being raped.
Judge Rowan Jackson KC accepted that the offending was supposedly “out of character” and that Faulkner did not present with attitudes supporting child sexual abuse or paedophilia.
Yet he possessed recordings of adults raping very young girls.
He supported child sexual abuse by consuming its product.
Without consumers, there is no audience.
Without an audience, there is no demand.
Without demand, there is less incentive for filthy predators to rape children, record it and circulate their suffering.
No Prison
Judge Rowan Jackson KC found “exceptional circumstances” and spared Faulkner from the imprisonment ordinarily required under the legislation.
Faulkner received:
- Three years’ probation
- A recorded conviction
- Not one day in prison
The court worried that imprisonment might damage Faulkner’s career.
What about the futures destroyed in those videos?
What about the children who must live knowing that recordings of their rape may circulate forever?
What about their trauma, education, relationships, mental health and future employment?
The Victims Were Failed Again
This disgraceful sentence tells consumers of child-abuse material that they might avoid prison if they produce a favourable psychological report, discuss their addiction and convince a judge that incarceration could damage their employment.
Faulkner’s career was treated as precious.
The children’s shattered lives were treated as background material.
Who gives a fuck whether this pig must rebuild his career?
The court should have been concerned with the innocent children whose rape created the material he chose to possess.
Instead, the offender went home—and the victims were failed again.
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