Pensioner jailed in child porn SMS first
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Lang was charged with five counts of transmitting child porn and two counts of transmitting child abuse material. (ABC)
A far north Queensland pensioner has become the first person in Australia to be convicted under federal laws for sending child pornography in an SMS message on a mobile phone.
Kenneth Roy Lang, 70, from Port Douglas, was arrested at Cairns airport in 2006 after he sent seven sexually explicit images of children to a friend in Australia during a holiday in Thailand.
Lang was charged with five counts of transmitting child porn and two counts of transmitting child abuse material.
In the Cairns District Court, Judge Sarah Bradley described the images as "disgusting" and sentenced him to 12 months jail, suspended for time already served.
She also took into account Lang's guilty plea and prior convictions for three sex offences in Victoria.
Judge Bradley also granted an application for Lang to be included on a national database of sex offenders.
