A RETIRED Victorian senior barrister will serve six months behind bars after pleading guilty to child pornography offences.
Neil James Williams, of Newham in central Victoria, was charged with single counts of using a carriage service to access child pornography, using a carriage service to transmit child pornography and knowingly possessing child pornography.
The retired Victorian Queens Counsel was arrested by Australian Federal Police (AFP) in October last year.
He was sentenced today by Judge Joe Gullaci in the Bendigo County Court and ordered to serve an immediate six-month jail term.
He will then be released on a recognisance order to be of good behaviour for 18 months.
Williams was among 19 men arrested in Australia by the AFP as part of a 12-month global child abuse investigation.
More than 15,000 videos and 500,000 images of child abuse - described by police as among the worst they have seen - were seized in the investigation.
The images and videos, which captured the sexual abuse of children, were shared between members of an online network.http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25375628-5005961,00.html
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