Garry Allan Broomhall (58) initially came to the interest of New Zealand authorities in August 2018 when UK officials informed them of his conduct in online chatrooms, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.
The defendant, who went by the usernames “single day of 1” and “Trev”, admitted he spent several years on the internet intimately outlining his sordid fantasies with other like-minded people from around the world.
In March 2018, Broomhall unwittingly began communicating with an undercover police officer.
He described how he had sexually abused his 12-year-old daughter since she was 10.
When the undercover officer told him they had two young children, the defendant described “at length and in very sexually explicit detailed terms” the sex acts he wanted to carry out on them.
Broomhall asked for photos of the kids and said he could provide in exchange photos of his daughter’s genitalia.
Subsequent inquiries confirmed the defendant did not have a 12-year-old daughter.
Police raided Broomhall’s home on December 7, 2018, and seized electronic devices.
Forensic analysis uncovered 41 objectionable images.
“Those images were of females having sex with or performing sexual acts on dogs and horses,” a court documents revealed.
Broomhall admitted the files were his but stressed to officers that he had never acted on any of his paedophilic desires.
“He stated he had been addicted to pornography for a long time. That addiction had become out of control to the point where he accessed and viewed everything including images of bestiality,” police said.
Defence counsel John Westgate said his client would likely lose his job today when the news of his offending broke.
“It hasn’t been an easy ride for this man — coming to terms with a very embarrassing addiction,” he said.
Broomhall, the court heard, was keen to address his illicit predilections and Judge Kevin Phillips noted he had no relevant previous convictions.
The judge convicted him of making and possessing objectionable publications and sentenced him to six months’ home detention, while expressing anxiety that the teenage daughter of the defendant’s partner was living at the address.
They were aware of his offending though, he said.
During that sentence — and for six months after — Broomhall was ordered to undertake any treatment prescribed by Probation and make all electronic devices available to them for monitoring.
He was also sentenced to 150 hours’ community work.
