BREAKING NEWS: Disgusting 'bin bag paedophile', 63, is jailed for livestreaming abuse of a girl, 12, - as the young victim is rescued from the clutches of her sick abusers overseas
An Australian paedophile who live-streamed the abuse of a girl, 12, in the Philippines has been jailed for more than four years and the victim rescued from her abusers' clutches.
Richard George Aldinger, 63, was arrested and charged last year after the Federal police were tipped off to an Australian repeatedly posting child pornography online.
Last September, detectives seized phones and computers from Aldinger's home in the quiet Sydney suburb of North Rocks.
It turned out to be vital evidence that eventually led Filipino authorities to save the girl in the vile videos from her horrid circumstances.
Aldinger on Monday was sentenced at the Parramatta District Court for a string of offences.
Sydney paedophile Richard George Aldinger, 63, has been jailed for up to four years and nine months over a vile livestream of a girl, 12, being abused in the Philippines
The arrest allegedly led Filipino authorities to rescue a girl, 12, from a home in Rizal, about two hours east of Manila, on October 25, 2019
The AFP investigation and arrest of a Sydney man, 63, led the Philippine National Police to save the girl, 12 (picture supplied by police)
Those included procuring a child for sex and using a carriage service to engage in sexual activity.
The court was told Aldinger had been speaking with, and paying, a 39-year-old Filipino woman for her sickening broadcast.
He had then been posting copies of material online himself.
That decision turned out to be his undoing when he found police at his door.
In October 2019 - a month after Aldinger was charged - the woman he was talking to was herself arrested in the town of Rizal, two hours south of the Philippines' capital of Manila.
The girl, 12, was rescued from her squalid surrounds, which were depicted - teddy bear and all - in Filipino police crime scene photos.
Another Federal Police photo of the surrounds the victim allegedly found herself in
Australian Federal Police and Philippine National Police during a strategy meeting, above
The victim of the sick video distribution network has been placed in the care of social workers.
Aldinger's case did not go to trial after he entered guilty pleas and his proceedings quietly ended on Monday.
Local residents were in disbelief when he was placed on bail following his arrest close to a local playground.
'You'd prefer someone charged with things like that wasn't living in your street,' a neighbour said at the time.
Aldinger was bailed to live near a playground. His conditions banned him from going near a school, pre-school or childcare facility
However, Aldinger was banned from being in the presence of children whatsoever and from touching a mobile phone.
Justice Justin Smith today brought the legal saga to an end and handed Aldinger a non-parole period of two years' and nine months.
AFP First Constable Khali Sherer hailed the sentence as a reminder to offenders that crimes aren't 'anonymous' on the internet.
'If you are livestreaming the sexual abuse of children, you are complicit in the sexual abuse of children and the lifelong harm it causes – it's as simple as that.
'But you are not anonymous and you will be caught.'