Robert Emmett, 38, of Sydney, Australia, pleaded guilty May 1 to possessing the child abuse materials, and to filming and taking pictures up the skirts of young girls while he was a mathematics teachers at St Andrew’s Cathedral private school.
He possessed upwards of 10,000 images of depicting the abuse of young girls, including images of bestiality, pain and humiliation he’d reportedly taped from his camera phone girls as young as 14.
District Court judge Ian McClintock described the photos and videos as being in the, “worst categories of abuse.”
He was caught in 2013 trying to film up the skirt of a 21-year-old woman while pretending to tie his shoes.
According to court records, a bystander saw the incident and asked aloud why he was trying to record up the woman’s skirt.
Authorities collected some 9,500 illegal images from the defendant’s possession.
The defendant is the is the son of NSW judge Arthur Emmett and Federal judge Sylvia Emmett and the grandson of former chief justice Sir Laurence Street.
Judge McClintock heard from a psychotherapist who spoke highly of the defendant’s chances for rehabilitation. The judge also noted the humiliation, and loss of job the defendant has also ready undergone as a result of these court proceedings.
Also, the offender’s shy, timid nature, as well as his family connections make him a likely target of violence were he to be locked up, the judge said.
