A man who vandalised Facebook tribute sites for two dead children has
been jailed.
Self-confessed "troll" Bradley Paul Hampson, 29, of Tarragindi in
Brisbane's south, posted pictures of penises and wrote offensive
messages on the two sites in February last year.
On one Facebook tribute site for the 12-year-old boy, he wrote "woot I'm
dead" across an image of the dead child.
He also morphed a photo of the boy's face inside a woodchipper and made
it appear blood was coming from the machine.
On another, he wrote sexually explicit comments implying he was
responsible for raping and killing the eight-year-old girl.
"My definition of pleasure ... listening to her ribs crack," he wrote.
"I got mad ... so I murdered her."
To post his comments, Hampson used the name of a Bundaberg man who he
claimed to have gone to school with.
Hampson said the man whose identity he used had been bullied by other
students at his school.
The court was told that man told police he was distressed his name had
been used to make such comments.
The court also heard when detectives examined Hampson's personal
computer, they found almost 200 images that depicted children as the
victims of abuse and sadism.
They also found images of missing UK girl
Madeleine
McCann
and murdered UK boy James Bulger with penises
superimposed on their faces.
Hampson today pleaded guilty to distributing child exploitation
material, using the internet to menace, harass or cause offence and
possessing child exploitation material.
Judge Kerry O'Brien sentenced him to three years' jail and ordered he be
released after he serves 12 months.
Taking into account seven-and-a-half months Hampson has already served
behind bars, he will be out of prison in September. |