The largest collection of child sexual abuse material the Department of Internal Affairs has encountered has seen a 45-year-old sickness beneficiary being jailed for five years in the Wellington District Court today.
Salman Jabbar Alhisaynawi, of Lower Hutt, pleaded guilty to seven representative charges of making, distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material.
Judge Ian Mill said he was puzzled that, as someone who had suffered the effects of trauma, Alhisaynawi had not recognised the trauma evident in the young victims when he traded the images.
In early 2015 the United States' National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children referred to Internal Affairs six cybertipline complaints about a New Zealander uploading objectionable material to cloud storage accounts.
The collection is the largest the department has encountered.
An examination showed Alhisaynawi's computer and storage equipment contained 222,704 images and 10,340 movies, of child sexual abuse.
Most involved preteen children including toddlers and babies.
He also had a paedophile's handbook, several hundred images of computer generated child sexual abuse, and pictures and movies of adult objectionable material. He had over 17 different cloud storage accounts.
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