Former Ship Captain Sentenced To Jail Over Child Exploitation Charges

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A ship’s captain that had hit an oil tanker over five years ago confessed pretending to have an identity of a teenager online to indulge in sexual conversations with young girls.

On Thursday, Jacob Taverner has been sentenced in the Brisbane Supreme Court. He pleaded guilty earlier to a host of charges he had committed over a year. These included 19 counts of deploying a carriage service for transmitting indecent communication to teenagers and children who were aged below 16.

The court had heard...

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