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Abe Maddison

Twenty-three years' jail for deviant online child abuse

A man has been jailed for sexually manipulating children via Instagram and Snapchat. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A former sports umpire who solicited sexually explicit material from 10 overseas children via social media platforms will serve at least 17 years in prison.

Brett Daniel Allford, 42,  of Edwardstown, in Adelaide's southwestern suburbs, had communicated with his victims on Snapchat and Instagram, encouraging them to engage in sexual activity and send explicit images of themselves. 

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