A Victorian pedophile who sent explicit images to two undercover police officers posing as teenage girls on social media has been jailed.
Over a 78-minute period in November 2019, Damir Mrse, 23, used Kik to engage in sexually explicit conversations with two different people he thought were 15-year-old girls.
Mrse encouraged the putative victims - actually officers from the anti-child exploitation unit - to have sex with him, as well as sending them multiple pictures of his penis.
The Croatian-born former nursing assistant on Monday faced Judge Gerard Mullaly at the Victorian County Court, where he was sentenced to nine months in prison. He was also handed a 15-month recognisance release order that includes him having to complete a sex offenders' course.
Mrse, who had previously made three failed attempts to join Victoria Police, was charged with procuring a person under 16 for sexual activity, transmitting an indecent image to a person under 16 and grooming a person under 16.
Judge Mullaly described the conversation Mrse had with the undercover officers on Kik as "crass and disturbing".
"It is paramount vulnerable children are protected from adult men seeking to satisfy their own sexual inclinations on the internet," he told the court on Monday.
Acting on a search warrant police discovered Mrse possessed 1017 child abuse files on his computer.
It was later revealed the Geelong man had also Googled "child pornography jail time" on his phone after learning of the raid.
Mrse, who had no prior criminal history, will be placed on the child sex offenders registry for life.
Australian Associated Press
