CANBERRA, ACT, Nov. 14 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:

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A South Australian man who sexually abused young children and collected more than 37,000 child abuse photographs has been sentenced to 19 years' imprisonment.

The O'Sullivan Beach man, 49, was sentenced today (14 November, 2025) by the District Court of South Australia to 19 years, one month and 25 days imprisonment, and must serve a non-parole period of 14 years and nine months. The sentence is backdated to 7 March, 2023.

Police identified the man as a result of an investigation that started in 2018, when INTERPOL alerted Australian law enforc...