A Tasmanian computer technician who considered himself a beast has been given a suspended jail sentence after being caught possessing bestiality images.Rodney Scott McLagan, 48, of South Arm, today was sentenced after pleading guilty to possessing 31,000 illegal images, most involving human female sex acts with dogs, ponies, snakes, tigers and an octopus.
Although 30 percent of the total images involved child pornography, Hobart Supreme Court Justice David Porter today said only 20 percent of those were actually viewed by McLagan.
"Your interests lie in the bestiality material," Justice Porter said in sentencing today. Those images were downloaded in bulk along with the bestiality material, Barclay said.
A psychiatric report tendered to the court showed McLagan suffers from an avoidant personality disorder, leaving him ill-equipped to achieve normal intimacy.
The disorder often leaves its sufferers with chronic social anxiety and loneliness, without the opportunity for normal sexual relationships, and fantasy is often indulged.
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