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Robert Emmett, judges’ son, likely to avoid jail after conviction for child abuse material
A former teacher from one of Australia’s most distinguished families of judges is likely to avoid jail, despite being convicted of possessing child abuse material.
Robert Emmett, son of NSW Court of Appeal judge Arthur Emmett and Federal Circuit Court judge Sylvia Emmett, was arrested in 2013 for possessing up to 10,000 child abuse images, some involving bestiality, pain and humiliation.
Emmett’s grandfather is Sir Laurence Street, former Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court, a position also held by his father Sir Kenneth Street and his father Sir Philip Street.
Robert Emmett, a former maths teacher at St Andrew’s Cathedral School, pleaded guilty to charges that included filming the private parts of children and possessing child abuse material.
In the NSW District Court, a sentencing judge said Emmett was remorseful and had no prior convictions.
The court heard the offender had been diagnosed with psychosexual problems and is receiving treatment.
The court heard Emmett walked around St Andrew’s filming some students on his camera phone and, on one occasion, pretended to tie his shoelace while crouching down to film up a girl’s dress at Town Hall Station in the CBD.
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Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2015/05/robert-emmett-judges-son-likely-to-avoid-jail-after-conviction-for-child-abuse-material/
