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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

Repeat child sex offender to serve less than half of mandatory minimum jail term

Patrick Ramsay-Feeney, 34, has been sentenced to three years jail for another child abuse material offence. Picture: YouTube

A mandatory minimum jail sentence for a repeat child sex offender is to be partially suspended after a lawyer successfully argued that his client's pedophilic disorder-driven offending involved "shades of grey" of wrongness and that there were reasonable arguments why it was "perhaps a health matter".

The ACT Supreme Court on Wednesday heard that Patrick Jim Ramsay-Feeney was caught last year accessing 148 images of child abuse material of which 98 per cent depicted animated or cartoon subjects.

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